2023 WPA Performance Grant Applications are Open!

2023 WPA Performance Grant Applications are Open!

Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is a non-profit organization which (since 2008) has been demanding equity for women composers and celebrating the legacy of The Women’s Philharmonic (1980-2004). Applications for 2023 WPA Performance Grants opened on September 1,...
Smyth’s Mass in Australia, Oct. 9!

Smyth’s Mass in Australia, Oct. 9!

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...
Composer of the Month: Chiquinha Gonzaga

Composer of the Month: Chiquinha Gonzaga

Editor’s Note:   While our focus at WPA is on women in classical music, we know the boundaries of the term “classical” have always been flexible and porous, from the earliest music of the Western church appropriating popular melodies, to Lizzo...
Beach work Premiered in WPA Edition

Beach work Premiered in WPA Edition

By Liane Curtis Our new edition of Amy Beach’s concert aria “Jephthah’s Daughter” was premiered last week.  The edition is part of our project to make high-quality, engraved critical editions available for ALL of Beach’s music.  We knew that “Jephthah’s Daughter” was...