WPA News Digest – October 7, 2024

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...

2023 New Recording Wrap Up

by sarah | Jan 17, 2024

Even as we look forward to the concerts, projects, and music that lie ahead in the new year, let’s reaffirm New Year’s resolutions to listen to more works by women composers and have a look back at some of the best classical albums to come out of 2023. It’s time to...

Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2021

by sarah | Jan 18, 2021

News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day.  Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward...

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,...

Joan Tower & Tania Léon in Conversation at LAO

by Liane Curtis | Jun 18, 2019

By Chris A. Trotman, WPA’s Director of Music Publications. Thank you to composer Dosia McKay (@dosiamckay) for sharing her photo of the event (Tower, left, and Léon) During the 2019 League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the...