Join Boulanger Initiative’s Research Manager, Dr. Caiti Beth McKinney, and librarians from the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia as they uncover works for orchestra by women composers found in the collection. Learn more about names you may know, like Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger, and discover even more outstanding music by names you might not recognize, like Elsa Calcagno, Minne T. Wright, Radie Britain, and more!

This is a virtual event; join via Zoom.

Check out our upcoming Wikithon on women composers of the Fleisher Collection!

The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia is the world’s largest circulating collection of orchestral performance sets – with over 22,000 titles – and provides materials to recognized performance groups around the globe for concerts and recordings. It houses virtually the entire standard repertoire, and is also known for its many rare and out-of-print works available for lending around the world. It is a unique source of 19th and 20th century American music, and has a longstanding commitment to promoting new, noteworthy, and overlooked works.

Boulanger Initiative, a non-profit based out of Takoma Park, MD and established in 2018, advocates for women and all gender marginalized composers. BI fosters inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be. Boulanger Initiative promotes music composed by women through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissions.

Virtual via Zoom 
6:00pm to 7:00pm  | Monday, October 20