Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021

Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021

News and music to start your week! Happy International Women’s Day!  Check out this post for the ways we’ve found you can listen to works by women composers (as well as learn about them)  throughout today! Great news from BBC Radio 3 which has announced...
Monday Link Round Up: February 8, 2021

Monday Link Round Up: February 8, 2021

News and music to start your week! I Care if You Listen posed five questions to Canadian composer Alexina Louie (pictured above) and Evie Mark, who is a throat singer.  They talk about Louie’s Take The Dog Sled – a Inuit-Western musical collaboration that...
Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2021

Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2021

News and music to start your week! On the first day of Black History Month (which should be every month) let’s look at Colorado Public Radio’s list of Contemporary Black Composers You Should Know.  Included in the list are Valerie Coleman, Jessie...
Monday Link Round Up: November 16, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: November 16, 2020

News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Grace Moore, pictured below, who had her work premiered by members of the New York Philharmonic as part of their Very Young Composers program.  Moore, who was born in Brooklyn, said that her work was inspired in...
Monday Link Round Up: June 1, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: June 1, 2020

It’s been an unbelievably difficult week for BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) and allies.  We at WPA stand with you in the fight for justice. Though not outwardly stated by NPR, I suspect there’s little coincidence that they featured Lara...