News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra was in the news this week for hiring two new conductors – both of whom happen to be women. Erina Yashima has been appointed assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados is the newly appointed...
News to start your week! Have you seen our report on who is being heard in the 2018-2019 orchestral concert season? Find all the news — good and bad — here. Listening to Ladies has a new podcast ready to stream and share! In the latest episode she talks...
News to start your week! Amazing new call for new music from Donne in Musica. Women composers of all music backgrounds, ages, and nationalities are invited to submit compositions inspired by the struggle for human rights. The call was inspired by the 70th...
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...
