Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Tag: Rebecca Clarke

  • Monday Link Round Up: Jan. 14, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: Jan. 14, 2019

    News to start your week! BachTrack has their 2018 year round up – with some promising and exciting results for women composers and conductors! See the data for yourself at BachTrack. The New York Times has an important piece about just how underrepresented women are in film music.  Though there is no lack of women…

  • A musical “blind taste-test” casts light on the biased processes of Canon-formation

    A musical “blind taste-test” casts light on the biased processes of Canon-formation

    Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don’t.  Salastina’s two directors were struck by a certain piano trio, and astonished that they hadn’t heard of it previously.  So…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 2, 2017

    News to start your week! It was great to see an article in the Huffington Post about Orchestra Moderne – a new ensemble based in NYC led by conductor Amy Andersson.  The ensemble is committed to performing a diverse range of works, especially focusing on works by women and people of color.  Their inaugural concert, on…

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 29, 2017

    Happy Memorial Day to those who observe!  Here is some news to start your week! Lisa Caplan, a PhD candidate in American Studies and Afro-American Studies at Yale has a great contribution to The New Yorker about the need for more diversity in opera productions – as well as what is being done about it.  Learn…