Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!

Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!

by | May 31, 2024

We love Louise Farrenc and all her wonderful music!  In honor of her birthday today, May 31, we are featuring a Youtube  video introduction about Farrenc, recorded by Dr. Liane Curtis in 2021 and lightly edited for this re-release.  This TIMELINE  is referred to in...

Monday Link Round Up: August 1, 2016

by | Aug 1, 2016

News to start your week! Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, “Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs”.  Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a...
Nancy Reich Honored with AMY Award

Nancy Reich Honored with AMY Award

by | Sep 22, 2012

Ossining, NY — Sept. 20. 2012 As President of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, I am proud to grant the AMY Award for Lifetime achievement in Music Scholarship to Dr. Nancy B. Reich. Her book, Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman (1985; rev. ed. 2001), was the...
Rebecca Clarke Celebrated by North State Symphony

Rebecca Clarke Celebrated by North State Symphony

by | Feb 21, 2012

Two performances this past weekend, titled “Treasures Beloved and Unknown,” exposed audiences of the North State Symphony in Chico and Redding, California to the work of Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). The piece performed was Clarke’s most remembered composition, the...