Tag: Pauline Oliveros

  • WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

    WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

      There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.…

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020

    News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above, was 96 and tragically died fighting COVID-19.  Read more at NPR about…

  • Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

    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 🙂   German time, 20:00, 2 pm US East Coast time, 11 AM…

  • Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

    News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April).  The  LA Times has the story of Opera Povera organizing a performance of Oliveros’ The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_Tunes, — timed…