Tag: Samantha Ege
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WPA News Digest — October 21, 2024
We’re here for another exciting week!! On Saturday October 26, the woman-founded Turkish American Orchestra (TAO) will give its debut performance in New York’s Symphony Space under the direction Nisan Ak. Cofounded by Ak and technology executive Ulku Rowe, the orchestra promotes Western classical music by Turkish composers, Turkish classical music, and Turkish contemporary music in…
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Monday Link Roundup: April 11, 2022
Exciting News to start your week!!: Opera American has announced the 2022 winners of their Discovery grants. Eight women composers will receive grants to support the development of new opera and music-theater works: Layale Chaker, Ashi Day, Susan Kander, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Pamela Madsen, Rachel J. Peters, Amber Vistein, and Alyssa Weinberg. WE can’t…
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Monday Link Round Up: November 22, 2021
Composer Stephanie Ann Boyd honored feminist activist Betty Friedan (pictured) in a new composition commissioned and premiered by the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. Born in Peoria 100 years ago. The work featured lyrics drawn from Friedan’s influential work, The Feminine Mystique. The rest of the concert was entirely music by Boyd, including her 2018 work “Sheltering…
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Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus directed by James Blachly, won in the Best Classical Solo Vocal…