Women's History Month on WMHT

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Celebrated American composer Joan Tower presents a daily series of podcasts for WMHT-FM presenting her choice of 31 women composers through history for the 31 days of March.

  1. 03/31/2025

    Joan Tower

    (1938 - ) the pioneering Grammy-winning American composer, curator of this series, who continues to be internationally commissioned and performed after 65 years of composing

  2. 03/30/2025

    Caroline Shaw

    (1982 - ) the two-time Grammy winning, Pulitzer prize winning, super-imaginative American composer, founder of Roomful of Teeth

  3. 03/29/2025

    Jessie Montgomery

    (1981 - ) the Grammy award winning Black American composer and violinist, Musical America’s Composer of the Year 2023

  4. 03/28/2025

    Missy Mazzoli

    (1980 - ) the American composer, first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and first person to win the inaugural Music Critics award for best opera in 2017

  5. 03/27/2025

    Jennifer Higdon

    (1962 - ) the multi Grammy award and Pulitzer prize-winning composer, flautist, and long time professor at the Curtis Institute

  6. 03/26/2025

    Unsuk Chin

    (1961 - ) the self-taught South Korean composer, winner of a number of lucrative prizes, living in Berlin

  7. 03/25/2025

    Julia Wolfe

    (1958 - ) the Pulitzer prize winning American composer, big mover and shaker in contemporary music circles and co-founder of Bang On A Can

  8. 03/24/2025

    Pamela Z

    (1956 -) the experimental Black composer, singer and performance artist, renowned for her pioneering electronics

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Celebrated American composer Joan Tower presents a daily series of podcasts for WMHT-FM presenting her choice of 31 women composers through history for the 31 days of March.

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