by Liane Curtis | Oct 8, 2022
We rarely blog on the weekends, but we wanted to make sure we mentioned the performance tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 9) in Australia of Ethel Smyth’s Mass — it may in fact be the first performance of that monumental work in Australia, and it is very a rare all-Smyth...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 8, 2022
Hope your week is off to a great start! The continuing push for women conductors, and Marin Alsop’s role in supporting more recognition, training and opportunities for women in the field is noted in this review of the “Breaking Barriers” Festival at Chicago’s Ravinia....
by Liane Curtis | Jul 19, 2022
The music of Dame Ethel Smyth continues to draw more performances and recognition. Liane Curtis attended the moving performance of Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival, and offered this review. Glyndebourne’s video of the production...
by Liane Curtis | May 2, 2022
The rediscovery and exploration of important music by Margaret Bonds is continuing! Wed. May 4, 10:30 AM EDT: Online presentation and discussion: “Margaret Bonds and Black Radicalism” with Dr. Malcolm J. Merriweather, Dr. Rollo A. Dilworth and Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle. ...
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...
