Monday Link Round Up: August 17, 2020

by sarah | Aug 17, 2020

News and music to start your week! A lot to celebrate! August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting U.S. women the right to Vote!  Our illustration is from the Music in the Women’s Suffrage Movement article of the...

Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020

by sarah | Aug 10, 2020

News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above,...

Monday Link Round Up: August 3, 2020

by sarah | Aug 3, 2020

News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Rhiannon Giddens – a trained opera singer, virtuoso fiddler and banjo player, founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, MacArthur Genius grant winner, and composer who is pictured above.  Giddens...

Met Opera to stream Kaija Saariaho’s Opera, L’amour de loin on May 6-7

by Liane Curtis | May 3, 2020

We are happy to report that the Met Opera’s ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de loin,” on Wed. May...

Monday Link Round Up: April 27, 2020

by sarah | Apr 27, 2020

News and music to start your week! Happy birthday to Dame Ethel Smyth! (April 22) Read reflections about the great composer, pictured right, by WPA Board Member Robyn Bramhall. There’s a wonderful new newsletter, “Fantastic Women Composers and Where To...