WPA News Digest – February 3, 2025

WPA News Digest – February 3, 2025

Let’s get your week off to an exciting start with our news! As previously reported in Feminist in the Concert Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra will host the all-female Lorelei Ensemble in performances of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story— a large-scale choral...
WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST — our revised Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled!  Read all about it!!  Learn more here!  The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024....
WPA News Digest – September 23, 2024

WPA News Digest – September 23, 2024

So much going on as the fall season of concerts and events is in full swing! On September 27–28, Washington University in St. Louis will host a symposium on the music and work of Julia Perry. The event will include guest lectures, a roundtable, and a concert of...
Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Readers have bemoaned the lapse of our Link Roundup feature, SO, we are going to try and get back in the swing of it!  It just seems like there is SO much important news sometimes, and we can’t claim to have a complete grasp on it — but here are a FEW...
Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: August 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,...