Happy International Women’s Day!  And Link Round-Up!

Happy International Women’s Day! And Link Round-Up!

Happy Women’s History Month and (tomorrow) International Women’s Day! We are thrilled to unveil our newly updated and expanded database “500 Operas by Women”!!  Last week we scolded the Met Opera for their continued denial of women’s creativity as composers.  So here...
Monday Link Roundup: February 21, 2022

Monday Link Roundup: February 21, 2022

It’s a BIG week in Black History Month! We knew Julia Perry wrote a lot of music, of which only a small but astounding handful of works are ever heard.  But a dramatic turn-around is happening – perhaps the result of BLM, and the re-assessment of everything prompted...
Monday Link Round Up: January 31, 2022

Monday Link Round Up: January 31, 2022

  The new documentary film about Marin Alsop, CONDUCTOR, directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, is earning well-deserved praise and attention.  This includes an interview with Alsop on NPR, and a review in the New York Times.  But (so far) our favorite response is...
Monday Link Round Up: September 20, 2021

Monday Link Round Up: September 20, 2021

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Mary Watkins, recipient of Opera America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers!  Learn more about her opera Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hammer Story as well as her Emmet Till: The Opera, scheduled for premiere...
Monday Link Round Up: April 19, 2021

Monday Link Round Up: April 19, 2021

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Sherri Chung, pictured above, the first Asian-American woman to compose the music for an hour-long network drama.  Listen in to her scores on the new series, “Kung Fu” (a “reimagining of the 1970s...