Women in Music Blog

This article from the Washington Post speaks about the remarkable life of Bea Wain.  It isn't every day that we get to celebrate the life of a woman who was interested in music and participated in it to the fullest for 100 years!  I hope you enjoy the article as much as I did and that Bea Wain inspires us all! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bea-wain-girl-singer-from-big-band-era-who-jammed-with-pavarotti-dies-at-100/2017/08/21/6ef5fd7c-8670-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.486b13bbabe1

Tune into composer, avant-garde harpist, professor, and writer Anne LeBaron's YouTube channel or SoundCloud channel and experience her music while learning about her. Anne LeBaron: biography [text by Anne LeBaron; photos provided by Anne LeBaron] A West Coast experimentalist who is an innovative performer on the harp as well as a composer embracing unusual challenges, Anne LeBaron’s compositions have been performed around the globe. Venues in Italy, Mexico, Sydney, Vienna, Sweden, Kazakhstan, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere have programmed her works for chamber groups, opera, cantatas, and presented her as a performer. Her operas celebrate legendary figures such as Pope Joan, Eurydice, Marie Laveau, the American Housewife, and Aldous Huxley. Her current opera-in-progress, Huxley’s Last Trip , (formerly LSD: The Opera) was awarded one of the first Discovery Grants from Opera America. The orchestra includes instruments built by American compos...