WPA News Digest – February 10, 2025

by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 10, 2025

News to start your week! Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska will both make their conducting debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic. Alsop will lead the orchestra from February 20–22, and Stasevska from February 27 – March 1. Alsop’s program will feature four composers...

Monday Link Round Up: July 26, 2021

by sarah | Jul 27, 2021

News and music to start your week! In the latest installment of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford HerStory series Kathryn Woodard speaks to composer and performer Yshani Perinpanayagam (pictured above).  Learn more at the WCFH website or watch the interview...

BBC Proms 2021: By the Numbers

by sarah | Jun 2, 2021

In a year unlike any other for classical music programming, it is simply a relief to know that live music is once again being scheduled, and that audiences are once again meeting in person.  Those of us that crave concert halls and the anticipation of a downbeat will...

Monday Link Round Up: February 3, 2020

by sarah | Feb 3, 2020

News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Jennifer Higdon, pictured, for winning the Grammy for Best contemporary classical compositions for her Harp Concerto.  Caroline Shaw also won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for her piece,...

Monday Link Round Up: October 21, 2019

by sarah | Oct 21, 2019

News and Music to start your week! Last week saw the New York Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s “Su,” concerto for sheng, which had its world premiere in 2009.  The New York Times spoke to Ms. Chin (pictured above) in advance of the Philharmonic’s...