by Kathleen McGowan | Mar 10, 2025
We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! Celebrations and Observations for Women’s History Month continue! On March 13, 2025 the members of the UN Symphony Orchestra will give their Global Women in Music concert at the NYU Skirball Performing...
by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 17, 2025
Let’s get your week going with some news! On February 14, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF) announced the inaugural recipient of their new Sorel Fellowship, in honor of pianist, educator, and philanthropist Claudette...
by Kathleen McGowan | Oct 7, 2024
Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have recently enjoyed a successful eleven-city tour of Japan. In addition to classics by Beethoven and Mozart, their program included Jessie Montgomery’s Strum—a work that might be familiar to WPA readers, as...
by Kathleen McGowan | Jun 24, 2024
The summer of 2024 is shaping up to be a summer of women conductors—a welcome sight in a classical music landscape that has famously been hostile to women on the podium. On July 5 & 6, Dalia Stasevska will lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a program of Finnish...
by Liane Curtis | 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...