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...
News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day. Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward...
News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English 🙂 ...
News and music to start your week! The Baltimore Sun reports that next season at The Baltimore Symphony will be the last for conductor Marin Alsop, pictured above. She has served as the conductor and artistic leader of the ensemble for 14 years. Opera Philadelphia...
News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic’s...