WPA News Digest – October 20, 2025

by Kathleen McGowan | Oct 20, 2025

We’ve gathered more exciting new stories to start your week! On October 17th the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s Livewire 15 festival paid tribute to pioneering women composers. The program featured music by four innovative women composers: Sofia...

Monday Link Round Up: July 24, 2017

by sarah | Jul 24, 2017

News to start your week! BBC Radio 4’s “Behind the Scenes” looks at Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s work during her first year as Music Director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.  Listen online here.   Conductor Amy...

Summer with the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra

by sarah | Jul 6, 2015

That Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra has an exciting summer season of concerts planned is no surprise – after all, their tagline is: “Performing diverse music for chamber orchestra.”  That diversity is represented in creative and innovative...

Wang Jie on the Fast Track

by SMBrown | Mar 28, 2014

In a relatively short time Wang Jie has made quite an impression on the classical music establishment. Last June the Orchestra of the League of Composers premiered Wang’s Oboe Concerto for the Genuine Hearts of Sadness, a work it had commissioned with funding in...

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – Project 440

by sarah | Oct 18, 2010

In celebration of their fortieth year, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra established Project 440 to commission four separate works from four contemporary composers.  Working together with WQXR 105.9 FM in New York they invited listeners to become an active part of the...