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New Amy Beach Publications: Late Piano Works: Far Awa’, The Lotos Isles, The Water-Sprites “Caprice” & A September Forest

We at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy are happy to announce the release of our new Amy Beach publication, consisting of four, previously-unpublished solo piano works: Far Awa’, Op. 43, no. 4 (1936), The Lotos Isles, Op. 76, no. 2 (c.1930), The Water-Sprites, Op. 90, no. 2 “Caprice” (c.1921) & A September Forest (1930)! This new critical edition was coedited by Dr Kirsten Johnson, FRSA and our Senior Music Editor Chris A. Trotman, and includes fingering/pedaling suggestions by Dr. Johnson.
You may purchase this fine new edition from our online shop!
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New Publication: Sonata for Violoncello & Piano, Op. 34 (featuring edition by Pamela Frame)

We at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy are happy to announce the release of our new Amy Beach publication – Sonata for Violoncello & Piano, Op. 34 – transcribed from original violin part for violoncello. Our edition includes an edited version by cellist Pamela Frame and an unedited, direct transcription. Pamela Frame recorded her transcription, along with other works by Beach and Rebecca Clarke, in an album by Koch. You may learn more and purchase this new edition in our online shop page.
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New Publications: Three Pieces for Piano Four-Hands and Variations on Balkan Themes for Two Pianos, Op. 60!

We at Women’s Philharmonic Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy are happy to announce the release of our new Amy Beach publications for piano four-hands and for two pianos. “Three Pieces for Piano Four-Hands” is a collection of three individual works, while “Variations on Balkan Themes for Two Pianos, Op. 60” is an extensive arrangement by Beach of her revised solo piano work by the same name. You may purchase these works from our online shop – here!
Special thanks to Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov of the Genova & Dimitrov PianoDuo for their collaboration with our Senior Music Editor Chris A. Trotman in proofreading and recording these incredible works. Their CD album (CPO 555 453-2) is available from their website – here!
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Amy Beach’s “Jephthah’s Daughter” performed and reviewed in Boston!

As our catalogue of music publications by Amy Beach continues to grow, we are reminded of this well-deserved Boston Globe review of Beach’s “Jephthah’s Daughter” for Soprano & Orchestra, Op. 53, brilliantly performed by soprano Sarah Pelletier and the New England Philharmonic! You may read the review below or visit the Boston Globe site.

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Happy Birthday, Amy Marcy Beach!!!

As part of our celebration of her extraordinary life and work, we at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy will soon be releasing our edition of four, previously-unpublished solo piano works, including her exquisite “A September Forest.” You may learn more about this work by Amy Beach and others by visiting our Publications Page.
“A September Forest” was beautifully recorded by pianist Dr Kirsten Johnson, FRSA, and you may listen here.
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Premiere of Amy Beach’s Maria Stuart: Scena & Aria for Alto & Orchestra, Op. 18 in Bismarck!

The premiere of Amy Beach’s Eilende Wolken, Segler der Lüfte (or Wand’ring Clouds, sail through the air) from Maria Stuart: Scena & Aria for Alto & Orchestra, Op. 18 will take place on February 4, 2023 in Bismarck, ND, featuring soprano, Tammy Hensrud, as part of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra‘s program entitled American Women! The soloist and orchestra will be performing from the first published edition of Maria Stuart available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy. The concert will also include Florence Price‘s Symphony No. 4! More info and tickets may be found at this link.
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Jephthah’s Daughter for Soprano & Orchestra Premiere in Boston!

Surely Amy Beach is so well-known that we don’t need to advocate for her any more, right? Wrong! Here’s an important AMAZING piece that will receive its WORLD PREMIERE on Dec. 5.
Read about it here
Concert details here
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The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Premieres Amy Beach Browning Song Arrangements!

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!

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Beach’s monumental Festival Jubilate, Op. 17 will be performed by the Congressional Chorus!

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.

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An Upcoming Concert by the Mercury Orchestra will Feature Beach’s Monumental “Gaelic” Symphony!

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!

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The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing the monumental “Gaelic” Symphony of Amy Beach this weekend, Sat. April 13 at 8pm!

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.

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This week the Marsyas Trio North American tour entitled In the Theatre of Air – North America Tour Begins!

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
TICKETS

BROOKLYN
Saturday 13 April 2019, 3:30 – 4:30pm
Areté Venue & Gallery
TICKETS

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
TICKETS

TORONTO
19 April 2019, 8:00 – 9:00pm
Array Space
TICKETS

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Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy has a table at the 2019 Society for American Music in New Orleans!

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!

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The Signature Symphony at TCC will be performing Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony tonight!

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!

 

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Two upcoming performances of Amy Beach’s music this next weekend, Feb. 23, 2019!

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.

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February will include two performances of Amy Beach’s music by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the second of which will also feature renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine!!

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.

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Check out the recording of Amy Beach’s “The Rose of Avontown” performed by The Concord Women’s Chorus!

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/).

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Enjoy an evening of choral and chamber works composed by some sophisticated FIRST LADIES and performed by Cappella Clausura!

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:

  • 8PM Saturday, Oct 20 at Eliot Church Newton (474 Centre St, Newton)
  • 4PM Sunday, Oct 21 at Lindsey Chapel Boston (15 Newbury St. Boston). For more info and tickets, please visit https://www.clausura.org/beach-clarke-caccini.

Program:

  • Amy Beach: Quartet for Strings (In One Movement), Op. 89 (1929) & Kyrie from Grand Mass in E-flat, Op. 5 (1892) arr. for string quartet and chorus by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications Director, Chris A. Trotman. Available from https://www.amybeach.org/music/publications/. Chris will be attending both concerts!
  • Rebecca Clarke: Comodo e Amabile (1924) for string quartet & He That Dwelleth (1921) for double choir a cappella
  • Marianna von Martines: Miserere (1768) for chorus and continuo
  • Francesca Caccini: Duets (1618) for voices and continuo
  • Ethel Smyth: Kyrie from Mass in D (1891) arr. by Amelia LeClair for string quartet and chorus
  • Patricia Van Ness: Premiere of new work for string quartet and soprano

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New Critical Edition of Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45!

A new critical edition of the score and orchestral parts for Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 is now available from Subito Music Corp.  The score is available for purchase here and the orchestral parts are available exclusively as rental from the Subito Music Rental Library via Zinfonia. The new edition has already been used by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra.  Good news to finally have an engraved version of this important work!

The editor of this new edition, Laurine Celeste Fox, worked with the manuscript score and parts held in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia.  Laurine is also a member of our Beach Advisory Committee.

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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Will Perform II. Alla Siciliana from Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony for Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony!

We are ecstatic that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Joana Carneiro, will be performing the II. Alla Siciliana movement of Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications’ revised edition) for the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony!!!

The Ceremony will take place on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 4:30 P.M. Central European Time (CET) or 10:30 A.M. EST and will be streamed live on the Nobel website – https://www.nobelprize.org/. The various events will be televised on a number of different channels around the world as well.

Please note that the Awards Ceremony is not the same as the Nobel Prize Concert on Dec. 8 that will feature guest conductor Gustavo Dudamel leading the Stockholm Philharmonic in performing Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” and Richard Strauss’ “Also sprach Zarathustra.” The Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony is where the laureates receive the Nobel Medal and Diploma from King Carl XVI Gustaf.

For more information about the Nobel Prize events in both Stockholm, Sweden and Olso, Norway, please click here.  And for more information on the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, please click here.

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Five upcoming opportunities in October to hear Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32

Five upcoming opportunities in October to hear Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 – 3 performances in New Hampshire, and a single performance in both San Francisco, California and Dayton, Ohio! (All of these orchestras will be using the revised edition of Beach’s Symphony available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications – https://www.wophil.org/publications/.)

Symphony NH – the concerts entitled “Dvořák New World” will include Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony, Beethoven’s “Coriolan Overture” and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World.” The performances will take place at the following times and places:

  1. Friday, October 6, 2017 at 8:00pm at the Concord City Auditorium (2 Prince Street Concord, NH 03301)
  2. Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 8:00pm at the Keefe Center for the Arts (117 Elm Street Nashua, NH, 03060)
  3. Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 7:00pm at the Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire (30 Academic Way Durham, NH, 03824)

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit their website – https://www.symphonynh.org/events/.

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) – the concert will include the Beach “Gaelic” Symphony, Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture,” Barber’s (part of the BARS LGBTQ Composer & Performing Artist series) “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” and Floyd’s “Ain’t it a pretty night” from Susannah (Julie Adams, soprano). The performance will take place on October 14, 2017 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit their website – http://bars-sf.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1011145.

Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra of Dayton, Ohio – the concert entitled “An American Experience” will include Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony, Charles Ives’ “Variations on America” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story!” The performance will take place on Sunday October 22, 2017 at 3 pm at the Kettering Seventh Day Adventist Church (3939 Stonebridge Rd., Kettering, OH 45419). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit their website – http://mvso.org/concerts/American_Experience/.

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The Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society Orchestra of Boston, Directed by Steven Lipsitt, Will Be Performing a Chamber Orchestra Arrangement of Amy Beach’s Bal Masqué, Op. 22 and Other Works!

The Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society Orchestra of Boston, under the direction of Steven Lipsitt (pictured below), will be performing a chamber orchestra arrangement of Amy Beach’s Bal Masqué, Op. 22 along with Bernstein’s Music from West Side Story (VOICES Boston), Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (In Mo Yang) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1! (Bal Masqué for Chamber Orchestra is available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications – https://www.amybeach.org/music/publications/).

The concert will take place on September 24 at 3 pm at Faneuil Hall, 1 Faneuil Hall Sq, Boston, MA 02109. For information and to purchase tickets, please visit their website.

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HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY, AMY BEACH!!

As this year marks Amy Beach’s 150th birthday, much is being done in celebration about this remarkable woman’s life and work! Numerous orchestras, choral ensembles, chamber ensembles and soloists around the world have performed or will be performing works by the pioneering American composer/pianist this year and next in celebration.  There are new recordings available this year featuring her works and new scholarship has and will be written about her.  Additionally, new musical editions, both revised and published for the first time, are available by a variety of publishers, such as Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications!

Here are a few highlights of what is happening for her birthday celebration –

1) The City of Boston will be declaring September 5th as Amy Beach Day! (a separate post will be made with more information!)

2) The upcoming Amy Beach/Teresa Carreño Conference at University of New Hampshire on Sept. 15 & 16

3) An article entitled “Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150” by musicologist William Robin featured in the NYTimes!

4) An article entitled “Amy Beach First Female Composer to Have Her Music Played by a Major Orchestra” by Troy Lennon, Classmate and History Editor of The Daily Telegraph in New South Wales, Australia!

5) A number of orchestras have and will be performing Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 Bal Masqué, Op. 22, and others (some using Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications’ revised editions) as well as choral ensembles performing her Grand Mass in E-flat, Op. 5! (Keep watching our news feed as we post about upcoming concerts!)

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New Article Entitled “Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150” by Musicologist William Robin Featured in the NYTimes!!

As this year marks Amy Beach’s 150th birthday, much is being done in celebration about this remarkable woman’s life and work! Among the many events, recordings and scholarship concerning her life and work is an article entitled “Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150” by musicologist William Robin featured in the NYTimes!!

Recently joining the musicology faculty of University of Maryland in 2016, Will Robin has written an incredible article about the profoundly successful composer/pianist! The article also includes quotes by many of Beach’s contemporaries as well as comments from our founder and president, Dr. Liane Curtis!

You may read the article here.

Sepia (a) and b&w (b), 8×10, glossy, ca. 1920. Publicity portrait, frontal. Photographer: Rayhuff-Richter. 4 b&w prints.
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Boston Landmarks Orchestra Will Perform “Alla Siciliana” from Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony!

On Wednesday, Aug. 9, the Boston Landmark Orchestra will perform the “Alla Siciliana” from Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston.  The orchestra will be performing from our revised edition available via Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications!

Maestro Christopher Wilkins describes the program here,  and details are on the orchestra’s website here.