Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Tag: JoAnn Falletta

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 5, 2018

    News to start your week! The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to conductor JoAnn Falletta about her career, and the new (and overdue) attention being given to women in music.  Read on here. With the rise of the #MeToo movement more victims of abuse have found the voice and support to come forward.  John Treads of the…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 25, 2017

    News to start your week! The WQXR blog talks with JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, about why it seems that professional orchestras actually play behind the conducted beat.  Read more here. In more conducting news, NPR’s Scott Simon sat in on a conducting class at The Peabody Institute taught by…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 31, 2016

    News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens – an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films!  Read more here.   The New York Times has a conversation with conductor…

  • Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

    Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting.  True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I bristled and rolled my eyes reading sentences like “…players can size up…