Tag: Ruth Gipps
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WPA News Digest – October 28 2024
Lots of concerts in October and November have been/are featuring works by women composers! (We love to see it!) On November 3, 2024 the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (San Francisco, USA) will perform the world premiere of Elijah’s Call: An Oratorio for an Abolitionist by composer Allison Lovejoy. The oratorio honors Lovejoy’s ancestor…
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WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024
Exciting News!! Composer Jeanine Tesori has become the first woman composer to open a season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141 years of operation. Her opera Grounded was given a gala premiere, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo on September 23,as announced in this Met Press Release. The opera features a fighter pilot grappling with the…
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Listen to This: Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps (February 20, 1921-February 21, 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. Her tremendous compositional output includes five symphonies, seven concerto, and a vast number of chamber and choral works. Gipps was a child prodigy, winning competitions in performance ad composition when she was still quite small. She attended the Royal…
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BBC Proms 2021: By the Numbers
In a year unlike any other for classical music programming, it is simply a relief to know that live music is once again being scheduled, and that audiences are once again meeting in person. Those of us that crave concert halls and the anticipation of a downbeat will accept just about anything as long as…