News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic’s...
News and music to start your week! Jessie Montgomery, pictured above, is profiled by Angela Allen, about diving into the world of opera. Read more at Classical Voices in America. The Daffodil Perspective has a list of 10 ways to make classical music more accessible....
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra is collaborating with American Composers Orchestra to offer a closed reading session for six up-and-coming women composers. Though not open to the public, the ensemble will perform and critique each work...
News and music to start your week! The 2018 BBC Proms are off and running (ICYMI here are the statistics of women’s representation we put together). Anna Meredith had a piece presented at First Night at the Proms and spoke to Fiona Maddocks about her work....
News to start your week! Continuing the conversation about women an opera that began last week with the announcement that Saariaho’s work will be heard next season (and is only the second work by a woman to ever be performed), Shawn Milnes of The Daily Beast...