Composers say their vital but often overlooked corner of the industry — still only 1.7 percent female — is rife with harassment, exploitation and worse: "I don’t believe in cancel culture, but I ...

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Are women composers finally getting their due? This weekend alone in San Diego, thirteen works by eleven female composers were featured in three different classical events. True, all the soloists were ...

While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe Flower wanted to highlight a lesser known group of women with her new ...

If classical music during the 20th and 21st centuries has become increasingly invisible, as reflected in such depressing tomes as Joseph Horowitz’s Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise ...

National Sawdust, the performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, announced the winners of its first Hildegard Competition for rising female and nonbinary composers. The winners, Emma O’Halloran, X.

Pinar Toprak is shattering the glass ceiling for female composers. Having already scored the popular Fortnite video game, she recently achieved her greatest accomplishment yet: Creating the score for ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without ever studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in concerts and on radio stations, says a BBC presenter. Kate Molleson, who presents a show on the BBC’s ...

“Star Trek” has always been known for its progressive casting on screen. But over seven live-action series and 13 movies dating back more than half a century, the science-fiction franchise has never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe ...