Monday Link Roundup: Sept. 25, 2023

Monday Link Roundup: Sept. 25, 2023

by | Sep 25, 2023

Two Important Festivals: The Women Composers Festival of Tübingen begins on Friday Sept. 29.  With a focus on the 19th Century: Tübingen composer Josephine Lang and three contemporaries (Emilie Mayer, Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Ethel Smyth), it continues 10 days and...
Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

by | Mar 7, 2023

By   Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia...

Monday Link Round Up: February 22, 2016

by | Feb 22, 2016

News to start your week! It was announced this week that Kaija Saaraiho will be the first woman since Ethel Smyth to hear her opera performed at the Met – making her the second woman ever.  The New York Times has the story. For some perspective, the Times also...

A Look at Dame Ethel Smyth

by | Mar 2, 2011

Remembered for her political work as well as her compositions, Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was an inspiring and impressive figure in Britain throughout her lifetime. Though she received resistance from her family as she pursued a career in music, she was rather...