Monday Link Roundup: April 11, 2022

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...
Monday Link Round Up: November 22, 2021

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...
Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021

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...
Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021

Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021

News and music to start your week! Happy International Women’s Day!  Check out this post for the ways we’ve found you can listen to works by women composers (as well as learn about them)  throughout today! Great news from BBC Radio 3 which has announced...
International Women’s Day Events 2021

International Women’s Day Events 2021

March 8 is International Women’s Day – and one of the few days of the year that those of us who seek out music by women composers have an abundance of choice.  Listen in to the different offerings that we have found: Renowned scholar and pianist Dr....