Women in Music Blog

In yet another search to locate what various roles women play in the music world today, I came upon an article that talks about the movers and shakers behind the popular music the world listens to.  It listed the most powerful women music executives and gives biographies of them and provides insight into how they came to care about music so intensely that they focused  their careers on promoting music.  The Music Library Association's Women in Music Interest Group applauds these forward-thinking clever women helping to shape the popular music scene.  Visit the URL below to see this relavant and rather inspirational article on how women can make a major difference in the world of music.   http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7595964/women-in-music-2016-most-powerful-executives

Geri Allen, Pianist, Composer And Educator, Dies At 60 http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/27/534409838/geri-allen-pianist-composer-and-educator-dies-at-60?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170628

Kerry Masteller is a member of the Music Library Association's  Women in Music Interest Group and she is a magnificent librarian who works at Harvard.  Recently she's been working on digitizing some interesting materials having to do with women composers in the 1800's!  Check out this amazing digitized collection of songs by women composers by visiting Havard's digital collections via the url given below.  We hope you enjoy viewing these truly intriguing compositions! https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:431056752$1i