Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2020

by sarah | Oct 26, 2020

News and music to start your week! The New York Times profiles Gabriela Lena Frank (pictured), composer and educator who works to encourage inclusion and representation in the field of classical music.  She hosts an academy on her farm in California, that works with...

Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

by sarah | May 4, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Washington Post has more about music being created during the current crisis – including more about Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home, the fourth installment was released this past week.  Bielawa, pictured above, is...

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 13, 2020

by sarah | Apr 13, 2020

News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April).  The  LA Times has the story of Opera...

500+ Operas by Women: Perform one today!

by Liane Curtis | Jul 19, 2019

[note: latest version of the opera database, March 2022, is here https://wophil.org/500ops/ ] Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to unveil our newly-updated database of 500+ Operas by Women! We invited Dr. Penny Brandt (one of the two noted scholars who...