Monday Link Round Up: February 17, 2020

by sarah | Feb 17, 2020

News and music to start your week! Huge congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, pictured above, the first woman to ever win an Oscar for a dramatic score.  Now learn more about her, and listen in to more works!  Pitchfork offers a great place to start! The Seattle...

Monday Link Round Up: February 10, 2020

by sarah | Feb 10, 2020

News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.  Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic’s...

Joan Tower & Tania Léon in Conversation at LAO

by Liane Curtis | Jun 18, 2019

By Chris A. Trotman, WPA’s Director of Music Publications. Thank you to composer Dosia McKay (@dosiamckay) for sharing her photo of the event (Tower, left, and Léon) During the 2019 League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the...

Monday Link Round Up: October 15, 2018

by sarah | Oct 15, 2018

News and music to start your week! Our congratulations to Tania Leon – composer, conductor, educator, and now member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!  Broadway news has the story. Congratulations also go to Unsuk Chin who was just awarded the...

Monday Link Round Up: February 5, 2018

by sarah | Feb 5, 2018

News to start your week! Don’t miss Alex Ross’s piece on Florence Price in The New Yorker.  He speaks of her “rediscovery”, a coming premiere, and the attention that her music deserves, also mentioning Amy Beach “Gaelic” Symphony...