Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Tag: Susanna Mälkki

  • Monday Link Round Up: April 11, 2016

    News to start your week!   Susanna Mälkki’s work continues to be recognized.  Not long ago she was named the new Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and just this week it was announced that she is the new Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  Read the story at the Los Angeles Times,…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 21, 2016

    News to start your week!   The Women Composers Festival of Hartford, which took place March 10-13, included a keynote address by WPA President Liane Curtis.  Conductor Dr. Amelia Nagoski offered her reflection on Liane’s message on her blog, Thoughtful Gestures.   Be also to read the Spring 2016 issue of the Kapralova Society Journal.  (And…

  • Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

    Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting.  True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I bristled and rolled my eyes reading sentences like “…players can size up…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2015

    Some links to start your week: Earlier this month Kaija Saariaho was interviewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice discussing her role not only as a composer, but as an educator.  Read the full interview here. Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has been appointed the first music director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in…