Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Tag: WQXR

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 28, 2017

    News to start your week! WQXR had a blog post this week highlighting historical figures who also wrote music.  Included in their list is Catherine the Great – though she was a librettist, not a composer.  What a shame to not include at least a few other female historical figures who composed, like: Anne Boleyn;…

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 22, 2017

    News to start your week!   The New York Times remembers the life and work of electronic composer Maryanne Amacher, who died in 2009.  Her studies with Stockhausen helped shape her unique approach and sound – and led her to fantastic collaborations, including with John Cage, but few authorized recordings of her works.  Read more here.  …

  • International Women’s Day

    We hope that you are able to participate in International Women’s Day and #DayWithoutAWoman in whatever way you can.  Stay home.  Wear red.  And tune in to the different radio stations that are making it a point to include works by women composers throughout today.   Second Inversion has committed to playing 24 hours of…

  • Monday Link Round Up: April 4, 2016

    News to start your week! Anna Beer, a writer, historian, and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, just had an editorial published by The Guardian sharing her experience learning about the rich but forgotten history of women’s work in music.  She discuses works by Caccini, Strozzi, Mendelssohn Hensel, and others. Conductor and singer Barbara Hannigan was interviewed…