News and music to start your week! Happy Martin Luther King Day! To commemorate their 10th anniversary, OperaCréole has planned “A celebration of Black Women in classical music and civil rights, from Ida B. Wells to Kamala Harris.” Unfortunately the...
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and what better way to celebrate than with an excellent concert from an important community organization? The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to “promoting and supporting lesbian, gay,...
News to start your week! We celebrated Dame Ethel Smyth’s birthday this weekend! Don’t miss the guest blog by Dr. Amy Ziegler and the new recording of Symth’s work. The BBC.com Culture column recognized the life and work of composer,...
We’re looking forward to two concerts happening this Thursday from 2014 Performance Grant winners, each of which features a premiere. The Pacific Symphony will be offering the World Premiere of Siren Songs by Laura Karpman. Program notes for the concert are...
Last week it was announced that Opera America will be awarding Discovery Grants to seven women composers in support of the development of their operas. The Opera Grants for Female Composers program is funded by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, which also funds the...
