Tag: Lara Downes
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WPA News Digest – November 18, 2024
There’s lots going on for women in music this week! On November 10, 2024 the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra opened its 90th anniversary season with a program of 19th century favorites: the overture from the Verdi/Solera collaboration Giovanna D’arco (Joan of Arc), Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D, and Brahms Symphony No. 4. Founded in 1935 as one of…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 12, 2021
News and music to start your week! Read about the Sister Cities Girlchoir and their work with composer Erin Busch, pictured above, to educate and inspire. Busch, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the education of women composers, which is evidenced in part by her Young Women Composers…
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Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus directed by James Blachly, won in the Best Classical Solo Vocal…
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Monday Link Round Up: February 15, 2021
News and music to start your week! We are excited about the new podcast from composer Julia Adolphe, pictured above, discussing creativity and mental health. Read more about her personal connection between the two, and where you can listen in to Looseleaf Notebook at New Music Box. The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini has a…