WPA News Digest – November 18, 2024

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...
Monday Link Round Up: April 12, 2021

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...
Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021

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...
Monday Link Round Up: February 15, 2021

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...
Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2020

News and music to start your week! Happy Christmas to all who celebrate!  Enjoy this lovely Christmas Prelude for Chamber Orchestra by Vítězslava Kaprálova, pictured above.  It was composed in 1939 and broadcast as part of the Paris PTT Radio program “Noël à...