On her birthday, thoughts about Ethel Smyth

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...

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...