Tag: Stacy Garrop
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Listening for Election Day, 2024
Hello intrepid Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Readers! In honor of the US Election Day 2024, we have a shortened news brief for you featuring Stacy Garrop’s 2020 work The Battle of the Ballot. On this most important of American civic days (and the days leading up to it) please remember to get out and vote if…
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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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Announcing the 1874 Project – Six Women Composers to be Commissioned
Today’s author, Carolyn Watson is an Australian-born conductor who has been active in the US since 2013. She serves as Director of Orchestras at the University of Illinois while continuing to enjoy an active freelance career internationally. 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the first orchestral performance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This student-led…
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Link Round-Up: July 25, 2022
Africlassical blog brings us lots of good news! We always love hearing what Jeri Lynne Johnson and Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra are up to (pictured, Johnson at left leading a workshop) – fantastic news that they have been awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for their “Kaleidoscope Initiative” to support the next generation of rising young…