Tag: mary purpura
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The Absolutely Essential Work of The Women’s Philharmonic: Holding On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread
We originally published this post on Feb 26, 2021 and are now reposting, since it is so important to our work! Guest author Mary Purpura completed an MA Thesis about The Women’s Philharmonic in 2016. Her research provided an important history of our founding organization, and we encouraged her to draw from her thesis and…
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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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We Hold On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread
By Mary Purpura Previously we posted Mary Purpura’s moving account of the work of The Women’s Philharmonic. Today we continue her consideration of the obstacles that remain to bringing women’s compositions into the mainstream. These essays are drawn from Mary’s 2016 M.A. Thesis The Women’s Philharmonic: Its History and Legacy I began to fully grasp…