WPA News Digest – July 29, 2024

by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2024

Hope your week is off to a great start! Continuing the shake-up at the NYPhil, “A Power Vacuum at the Philharmonic” offers further reporting from Sammy Sussman at New York magazine.  The April article “A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic”...

Elizabeth Recommends: Holiday Music for Orchestra

by Liane Curtis | Dec 15, 2022

by Elizabeth de Brito Happy Holidays, everybody! As the festive season is firmly underway, I’ve curated a selection of the finest holiday orchestral and choral music written by women. Whilst the gazillionth performance of Handel’s Messiah may be a longstanding...

Monday Link Roundup: March 14, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Mar 14, 2022

We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life.  Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth “wearing her...

Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021

by sarah | Sep 6, 2021

Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way.  She contacted composers and commissioned 40...

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...