By the Numbers: 2024-2025 Repertoire Report

by sarah | May 28, 2024

By Sarah Baer Our favorite spring tradition at Women‘s Philharmonic Advocacy is collecting the season announcements from America‘s top orchestras. This process, which is always full of trepidation and hope as we gather data that indicates the direction of classical...

Link Round-Up: July 25, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Jul 25, 2022

Africlassical blog brings us lots of good news!  We always love hearing what Jeri Lynne Johnson and Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra are up to (pictured, Johnson at left leading a workshop) – fantastic news that they have been awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for their...

Monday Link Round Up: May 31, 2021

by sarah | May 31, 2021

News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop, pictured above, is preparing to step down from her position at the Baltimore Symphony.  She spoke to The Washington Post about her history with the orchestra, the glass ceilings that she broke along the way, and the work...

News Round Up

by sarah | May 19, 2015

Here are some headlines worth paying attention to: Though the LA Philharmonic didn’t promote Saariaho’s world premiere, it received an excellent review in the LA Times: The performance was strong. Dudamel remained constantly attuned to Saariaho’s...

2010-2011 Repertoire Report

by sarah | Oct 30, 2014

While our priority at the moment is to get the word out about our Performance Grants, we thought we might take a moment to reaffirm the need for those grants, by taking a close look at some data about what orchestras are programming.  In our work to level the playing...