Tag: composers
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WPA News Digest – September 2, 2024
As summer ends and fall educational and concert activities ramp back up, a lot of exciting news! From Sept. 15 – 18, The Buffalo Philharmonic and the International Conductors Guild will host a workshop for eight women conductors in Buffalo, New York. The four-day workshop will include roundtable discussions with JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of…
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On her birthday, thoughts about Ethel Smyth
By Robyn Bramhall — Our author is a WPA Board Member and Secretary who has been involved with WPA since our inception, and who also worked with The Women’s Philharmonic for almost the entirety of its influential and important lifespan, including serving as its President. Today we celebrate the birth of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944),…
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A Woman Composer Speaks Out
Over on http://www.newmusicbox.org/ there is a lively—chaotic, even—debate going on about the identity politics of the “woman composer.” Composer Rain Worthington wrote the post below as a comment to Rob Deemer’s post, A Helpful List . With her permission, we re-post it here. LC I joined the New York Women Composers organization in 1997 when I first…