Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Sorry, 1,215 followers! We are Ex - X users. Find us at wophil.org and Facebook @WomensPhilAdvocacy. AND NOW at instagram.com/womensphilharm… We are always looking for (on topic) guest bloggers for our blog Feminist in the Concert Hall!

@HRF Letter distributed around and in the concert hall.

@HRF This letter from the HRF was distributed around the Concert Hall.

Last night, Gustavo Dudamel, the famous Venezuelan conductor, gave a concert directing the Maduro regime's top youth orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. HRF was present as well, to remind the world of Maduro's fraud and to call out Dudamel for engaging in shameless propaganda and providing cover for the Venezuelan dictator.

Sorry, 1,215 followers! We are Ex - X users. Find us at wophil.org and Facebook @WomensPhilAdvocacy. AND NOW at instagram.com/womensphilharm… We are always looking for (on topic) guest bloggers for our blog Feminist in the Concert Hall!

There's an exciting new book: _Tania León’s Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life_ by Alejandro L. Madrid. Sarah Baer gives us her take on it, León's music and development as a composer, and why she has resisted being identified with lables of gender and race. wophil.org/tania-leons-st…

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Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orch concert “Seen-Unseen: The Symphonic Legacy of Black American Women” July 26, 7:00pm, Boston’s Hatch Shell. Includes the Overture to Shirley Graham’s Tom-Tom performed in 1932, long believed lost and recently re-discovered. tinyurl.com/msumvmwu

@TJHogglestock @sarahfritzwritr Byeol Kim is fantastic, here she is in the Beach concerto in 2012 (absolutely searing!) youtu.be/-9mOVRjH6WM

In celebration of Wendy Carlos: composer, inventor, genre creator and pioneer musicradar.com/news/in-celebr…

This week we expand our Repertoire Report by considering the recent representation of BIPOC composers by the top 21 U.S. orchestras. wophil.org/the-programmin…

In our news Round-up, JoAnn Falletta wins the Eroica Award wophil.org/link-roundup-j…

@GramophoneMag Or how about this? Tracing opera from Francesca Caccini in the 17th c to Saariaho today, via the great works of Jacquet de la Guerre, Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Maria Teresa Agnesi, Augusta Holmès, Louise Bertin, Ethel Smyth, Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo, and Maconchy. #listentowomen

@sarahfritzwritr Thank you so much for your thoughtful engagement!!

Woke up thinking about this—& how orch marketing makes 1 program seem bigger than it is. NO ONE has played more than 20 works by women in a season… 🙃🤨😑 We have LOTS of work to do. From @WomensPhil’s fantastic research. Thank you!!!!

In case you thought programming of women composers was going 📈… 2021-22 11.9% 2022-23 10.7% 📉 2023-24 10.5%📉

A beginner's guide tracing the extraordinary development of opera from Monteverdi in the 17th century to Saariaho today, via the masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Britten #Echobox=1687453773" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

Our annual REPERTOIRE REPORT is here: BY THE NUMBERS! Since 2008, the intrepid Sarah Baer has analyzed the programming of the top 21 U.S. orchestras. Does this coming season show progress in the fair representation of works by women? wophil.org/2023-2024-seas…

@VonKoczalski There seem to be some lacunae in your reading!

Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc! The great French symphonist (and composer of many chamber works and music for piano) has her 219th birthday today, May 31! And we have editions of two of her symphonies! wophil.org/celebrating-lo…

Fanny's Piano Sonata in G minor has been orchestrated to a concerto! -- premiering Thursday June 15, in the Boston area -- eventbrite.com/e/fanfare-for-… Piano Concerto in G Minor, IFH 19, by Fanny Mendelssohn HENSEL (1805-1847), arr. Patricia WALLINGA (b. 1994)

We have some interesting news items -- opera premieres in California, Marin Alsop becomes Chief Conductor of the Polish Radio Symphony (and will record music by Grażyna Bacewicz), and two works to be premiered (and streamed) by the Berlin Philharmonic! wophil.org/link-roundup-j…

We are heartbroken to share the news of the passing of composer Kaija Saariaho: wophil.org/on-the-passing…