Monday Link Roundup: April 11, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Apr 11, 2022

Exciting News to start your week!!:   Opera American has announced the 2022 winners of their Discovery grants. Eight women composers will receive grants to support the development of new opera and music-theater works: Layale Chaker, Ashi Day, Susan Kander, Anne...

Monday Link Roundup: March 14, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Mar 14, 2022

We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life.  Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth “wearing her...

Link Round-Up! March 1, 2022 — Happy Women’s History Month!

by Liane Curtis | Mar 1, 2022

Instead of our weekly news round-ups, we will be offering more frequent updates and commentary throughout this exciting  and important  month! Just in time for women’s History Month, the Met Opera made their annual statement that women cannot and do not compose...

Monday Link Round Up: February 7, 2022

by sarah | Feb 7, 2022

Florence Price received national attention this week when television personality Kelly Clarkson included a feature about the composer and her work on Clarkson’s show. The feature includes a performance of Price’s Fantasy n. 2 in F-sharp minor, by two of...

Link Round Up: January 25, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Jan 25, 2022

Here’s some news for this week! Juilliard Focus Festival 2022, The Making of an American Music, 1899-1948 is taking place this week with much of it streaming.  The January 28 concluding orchestral concert will be conducted by Mei Ann Chen, and features Melissa...