Start your week right by getting caught up on the news:

WPA President Liane Curtis was able to attend a performance of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers at Bard Summerscape.  Read her review here.

And, in case you missed it, listen to the story about The Wreckers broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Conductor Susanna Mälkki, who will soon be taking over the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and is appear at The Proms this week, was profiled by The Guardian.

Last week we shared the listing of all of the works by women being performed during the 2015 Proms in London.  Be sure to catch the recording of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performing works by Joanna Lee, Betsy Jolas, and Shiori Usui and before it expires – listen here.