News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman, pictured, who was named 2020 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. Read more at Broadway World. Alex Ross writes at his blog, The Rest is Noise, about the...
News and music to start your week! History was made at the Philadelphia Orchestra when they performed Umoja by Valerie Coleman – the first classical work by a living African American woman that they have every performed. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer....
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra made a stir in the Spring with their season announcement, and lack of diversity among composers. They walked much of that back with the addition of two (rather small) works by women to the concert season,...
News and music to start your week! In honor of Mother’s Day, WQXR has a series of conversations with women composers about motherhood. Hear from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Valerie Coleman, and Marilyn Shrude here. Classical FM has a brief history of women gaining...
