The Lux Choir will be performing Amy Beach’s choral music in Maryland & DC on Aug 11 & 12! The program includes (1) The Greenwood, (2) Dusk in June, (3) Help Us, O God and (4) When the Last Sea is Sailed, together with works by Reger, Rachmaninoff & Dett. For more info, feel free to visit their website.
This weekend, Jan 6-8, the Vancouver Symphony will be joined by violinist Henning Kraggerud to perform works by Grieg, Mozart and Amy Beach’s Romance for Violin, Harp & Strings, arranged by Chris A. Trotman, Director of Publications for Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy! For more info and tickets, please visit the link below:
Happy Birthday, Amy Beach! She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on this day in Henniker, NH. In celebration we are giving away copies of our critical edition of Mvt. II — Alla siciliana — from her Symphony op. 32, “Gaelic” — please fill out this form to receive your PDF copy! Supplies are limited; this offer is valid through Sept. 12, 2022
As part of his series entitled “Symphonies and Concertos without Orchestra (a Covid Compromise),” Daniel Glover will be playing Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with Beach’s Cadenza this Friday, Dec. 18 at 7pm. The YouTube link for viewing the concert is https://youtu.be/w-WEHzbB40M, and the concert recording will remain available.
As part of their program entitled “She’s the First: Music to Celebrate the 19th Amendment’s Centennial,” the Boston Landmarks Orchestra together with soprano Brianna J. Robinson performed the world premiere of Amy Beach’s “The Year’s at the Spring” and “Ah, Love, but a day!” arranged for soprano, piano and string orchestra!
The arrangements that are so beautifully performed were generously donated by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy and were made by Chris A. Trotman, Director of Publications for WPA! If you wish to know more about the works and/or wish to purchase the music, please visit https://www.amybeach.org/music/publications/.
The YouTube video below begins at the portion featuring Amy Beach and their performances of these new song arrangements, enjoy!
“The Bird Known Best by Composer Amy Beach” – an article about Amy Beach during one of her many residencies at the MacDowell Colony and her encounter with the Hermit Thrush that inspired her two solo piano works based on its birdsong!
https://www.macdowell.org/special-projects/legacy-amy-beach
Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet is on a new album from the Takacs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson and a New York Times review!
Concerto pianist, Asiya Korepanova, will be joined by Orchestra Miami under the direction of Elaine Rinaldi to present their program entitled “Miami Mujeres,” which is in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving Women the right to vote! The concert will also include works by three other note-worthy women composers – Tania León, Amy Beach, Florence Price and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
The concert takes place at 8:00 PM on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, at First Miami Presbyterian Church, located at 609 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131. VIP tickets, which include the post-concert reception and a reserved seat, are $60 per person. General admission seating for the concert only is priced from $5 to $40. Limited free parking is available at the church parking lot; spillover parking is available at the Bank of America parking garage adjacent to the church. Tickets and complete information can be found at www.orchestramiami.org or by calling (305) 274-2103.
The Congressional Chorus under the direction of David Simmons and joined by piano, timpani and strings will be performing Amy Beach’s monumental Festival Jubilate, Op. 17 as part of their concert entitled “Nevertheless, She Persisted…Music of America’s Women Composers!” Beach wrote this work for the dedication of the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1892! The newly-revised, reduced edition (originally for full orchestra, but reduced for piano, timpani and string quintet for this concert) of Festival Jubilate is made available by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and specifically WPA’s Director of Publications Chris A. Trotman! The full orchestral version will also be released soon by WPA. The concert will also include works by many other American composers (visit URL below for more info).
The concert will take place this Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019, 4:30 pm in the historic Church of the Epiphany, and tickets are Preferred $39 (Preferred), $32 (General), $20 (Young Patrons ages 22-30, General) and $10 (Student ages 8-22, General).
For more info and to buy tickets, please click here.
On Nov. 10 in New York City, Beach’s Piano Trio, a wonderful late work, to be performed by the Neave Trio. For more info, visit here.
Here is a rare picture taken from the Etude Cover November 1929 (located in the UNH Special Collections)
A Boston Globe article concerning the upcoming concert featuring Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony performed by the Mercury Orchestra under the direction of Channing Yu! Presented by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Mercury Orchestra will perform at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, Aug. 7, 7 p.m. Free. 617-987-2000, www.landmarksorchestra.org
An upcoming concert will feature Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony!
In their program entitled STANFORD & BEACH, the Mercury Orchestra under the direction of Channing Yu will perform both Beach’s Symphony and Stanford’s Phaudrig Crohoore, ballad for chorus and orchestra on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade, Boston, MA (Rain location TBD). The concert is free admission and no tickets required. For more info, please visit http://www.mercuryorchestra.org/concerts.html
The Mercury Orchestra will be performing the Beach Symphony using the revised edition score/parts available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (www.wophil.org). Also, both Dr. Liane Curtis (Founder/President of WPA) and Chris A. Trotman (Director of Publications & Editor-in-Chief of WPA) will be attending!
The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing the monumental “Gaelic” Symphony of Amy Beach this weekend, Sat. April 13 at 8pm! The event will also feature guest speaker Dr. Liane Curtis, who is the Founder/President of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy! The Orchestra will be performing from the revised edition of the “Gaelic” Symphony available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and the edition editor/Director of Publications Chris A. Trotman will also be attending!
For more info, click here.
This week begins the Marsyas Trio North American tour entitled In the Theatre of Air – North America Tour!
This year marks their 10th anniversary, and they’re celebrating with their first North American tour, generously supported by the HMUK Doing it Differently scheme. Join them in Brooklyn for two nights, Schenectady, Boston or Toronto, as they perform music by British and American women composers, including Amy Beach, from their recent CD In the Theatre of Air. The Trio will be performing two previously unpublished works by Amy Beach entitled Pastorale and Caprice, “Water-Sprites,” Op. 90, nos. 1&2, and the newly revised edition is available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications!
MUSIC BY
Amy Beach, Hilary Tann, Georgia Rodgers, Missy Mazzoli, Thea Musgrave, Louise Farrenc and Judith Weir
BROOKLYN
Thursday 11 April 2019, 8:00pm
Areté Venue & Gallery
Marsyas Trio join composer/pianist Brian Mark and soprano Rose Hegele, in a concert curated by Ensemble in Process
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BROOKLYN
Saturday 13 April 2019, 3:30 – 4:30pm
Areté Venue & Gallery
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SCHENECTADY
Monday 15 April 2019, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Union College
Free entry MORE INFO
BOSTON
17 April 2019, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Private music club
Tickets $25, to purchase please contact us at marsyastrio@gmail.com
BOSTON
18 April 2019, 8:30pm – 9:30pm
The Lilypad
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TORONTO
19 April 2019, 8:00 – 9:00pm
Array Space
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Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy has a table at the 2019 Society for American Music in New Orleans! If you are here at the conference or are local, feel free to come by and browse our published musical editions, calendars, CDs, etc! Our American published editions include works by Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke, Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger!
The Signature Symphony at TCC, under the direction of Andrés Franco, will be performing Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony tonight as part of their concert program entitled Power of Diversity!
The concert will be 7:30PM CDT at the Tulsa Community College – Van Trease PACE, Tulsa, OK. For more info, please visit here.
Also, they will be performing from the revised edition score and parts available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications!
Mezzo-soprano Dr. Mary Brown Bonacci of Westfield State University will be performing Amy Beach’s Three Songs, Op. 11 (W.E. Henley): Dark is the night (1890), The Western Wind (1889), The Blackbird (1889) in a series of concerts in Kansas early next month! More info below:
March 2 at 2pm – Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery. More info here.
March 6 at 7:30pm – Kansas State University. More info here.
March 7 at 7pm – Tabor College. More info here.
Two upcoming performances of Amy Beach’s music this next weekend, Feb. 23! Also, both orchestras will be performing from editions available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications (www.amybeach.org)!
(1) The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 on Feb. 23 at 8 PM at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, 1550 West 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC. For more info, please click here.
(2) The Springfield Symphony Orchestra together with Rachel Barton Pine, Violinist will be performing an orchestral transcription of Beach’s Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 on Feb. 23 at 7:30 at Symphony Hall, 34 Court Street, Springfield, MA 01103! For more info, please click here.
February will include two performances of Amy Beach’s music by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the second of which will also feature renowned Rachel Barton Pine, Violinist!! Also, the orchestra will be performing from editions available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and you may learn more by visiting our publications page.
Feb. 2 at 7:30 – Their program SCHEHERAZADE & AMERICAN WOMEN COMPOSERS will feature Beach’s Bal Masqué for Orchestra, Op. 22! For more info please click here.
Feb. 23 at 7:30 – Their program MENDELSSOHN’S ITALIAN & BRAHMS will also include an arrangement of Beach’s famous Romance, Op. 23 (originally for violin/piano) for violin, harp and string orchestra with Rachel Barton Pine as violin soloist! For more info please click here.
Check out the recording of Amy Beach’s “The Rose of Avontown” performed by The Concord Women’s Chorus! The recording is now available via SoundCloud!
The Concord Women’s Chorus (www.concordwomenschorus.org), directed by Jane Ring Frank, presented the concert entitled “Amy Beach and her Contemporaries” on May 12, 2018 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord, Massachusetts.
The concert’s featured work, Amy Beach’s “The Rose of Avontown,” was performed by the chorus with a 14-piece chamber orchestra and soprano soloist Adriana Repetto. It was the first performance to use the newly revised edition of Beach’s score and parts, the product of Chris A. Trotman (the Publications Director of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, www.wophil.org). This publication is part of WPA’s mission of encouraging performances of neglected music by women. “The Rose of Avontown” was one of Beach’s most performed and best-known works in her lifetime, yet it is hardly known today. WPA hopes the new edition will help bring this delightful choral music to many audiences and ensembles, and we are happy to have such a truly wonderful first performance. This work by Amy Beach and many others are available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications (www.amybeach.org/music/publications/).
Metropolitan Orchestra of New Jersey (a community orchestra) conducted by Michael Stratechuk will be performing Amy Beach’s Symphony in E-minor, Op. 32 “Gaelic” on Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 3:00 at the Chatham Middle School, 480 Main Street, Chatham, NJ.
Other works being performed include Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story arranged by Maurice Paress, George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and Aaron Copland’s Rodeo Movement 4 “Hoe-Down”.
Admission is free. For more information, please visit their website.
Enjoy an evening of choral and chamber works composed by some sophisticated FIRST LADIES who pursued careers as composers despite obstructions galore, and were first in their pursuits. Works by Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smyth, Marianna von Martines, Francesca Caccini and Patricia Van Ness will be performed by Cappella Clausura, Inc. and string quartet under the direction of Amelia LeClair! The concerts will also feature a concert talk with renowned musicologist Dr. Liane Curtis, president of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (www.wophil.org) and the Rebecca Clarke Society (www.rebeccaclarke.org)
Concerts:
Program:
Ensemble for the Romantic Century presents a play involving the fusion of Emily Dickinson’s writings and music by Amy Beach entitled “Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson.”
Works by Amy Beach include her songs “Ah, Love but a Day,” “Chanson d’Amour” and “Stella viatoris” as well as excerpts/movements from her instrumental chamber works – Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op.80, Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150 and Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67!
September 15- October 21, 2018: Performances at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036
Emily Dickinson produced some of the most haunting and mysterious works of the 19th Century but she was one of the most elusive artistic personalities. In Dickinson’s self-imposed solitude, she constructs a world of images, sensations, and emotions ruled by the breadth of her imagination. Through a pairing of her words with the music of renowned composer Amy Beach, audiences embark on a journey through Dickinson’s soul and inner world. For more info and tickets, please visit their website.
