Listening for Election Day, 2024

by Kathleen McGowan | Nov 4, 2024

Hello intrepid Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Readers! In honor of the US Election Day 2024, we have a shortened news brief for you featuring Stacy Garrop’s 2020 work The Battle of the Ballot. On this most important of American civic days (and the days leading up...

Monday Link Round Up: August 8, 2016

by sarah | Aug 8, 2016

News to start your week: Elizabeth Blair – herself a composer, activist, and writer – has a fantastic interview with composer Lisa Coons available to read now at VAN Magazine. Frank Oteri at New Music Box has an interview with American composer Eleanor...

Celebrating New Music and Marin Alsop at Cabrillo

by sarah | Jul 27, 2016

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music begins on July 31.  This annual event is always worth anticipating and hugely rewarding – but this year is particularly special as it is Marin Alsop’s last at the helm.  Alsop is stepping down after 25 years as...

Monday Link Round Up: July 25, 2016

by sarah | Jul 25, 2016

News to start your week! ICYMI, Philip Clark shared his thoughts in The Guardian in a blog post titled “Where have the great composers gone?”  His thesis is, essentially, that contemporary music doesn’t compare to composers like Britten, Tippet,...

Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2015

by sarah | Nov 23, 2015

Some news to start your week! It was announced earlier this year that the coming Cabrillo Festival will be Marin Alsop’s last.  NewMusicBox has a great piece on how the festival has evolved during Alsop’s tenure – read more here.   The Meet the...