Tag: Black lives matter

  • Happy New Year! and Link Round Up: January 4, 2021

    Happy New Year! and Link Round Up: January 4, 2021

    Happy New Year to ALL!  We are proud to announce that our 2021 Women Composers’ Calendar is available for purchase, to help you celebrate the work of women in the coming year.  Featuring the birthdays and achievements of a wide range of composers, it is available for purchase here, from Lulu.com.  Lulu.com offers international print-on-demand…

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020

    News and music to start the week! Sorry we didn’t post about this sooner!  The Dream Unfinished Activist Orchestra presents a live community reading of Fannie Lou Hamer’s 1964 speech, “Sick and Tired,” today, Monday, Aug. 31 at 11:30 AM EST!  Sign-up is required.  Some amazing members of the music community will be participating (some…

  • Monday Link Round Up: June 8, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: June 8, 2020

    News and music – and social justice – to start your week. We at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter community in striving for justice.  Today we will focus on some of the conversations that musicians have been having regarding the current climate and how to move forward. Anthony McGill,…

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 1, 2016

    News to start your week! Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, “Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs“.  Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a thoughtful discussion and on the history and progress of women in the field of…