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NEW! Kapralova Society Music Journal Focuses on Women in Orchestra


NEW! Kapralova Society Music Journal Focuses on Women in Orchestra 

The spring issue of our journal has now been posted online: http://www.kapralova.org/JOURNAL.htm

The focus of this issue is on women in orchestra:

  • Feminizing the Stage: Early Lady Orchestras and Their Maestras / by Maria Noriega Rachwal
  •  Interview with British conductor Jessica Horsley
  • Report from last year's symposium on Kaprálová held in Basel, Switzerland / by Judith Mabary
  • New publications

The Kapralova Society

The Kaprálová Companion. Edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7391-6723-6 (cloth)—ISBN 978-0-7391-6724-3 (electronic). 
VítÄ›zslava Kaprálová. Dopisy domů. Edited by Karla Hartl. Toronto: Kapralova Society, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9940425-0-7 (cloth)–ISBN 978-0-9940425-1-4 (electronic).

Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kapralova.Society

The Kapralova Society is a Canadian non-profit arts organization. Founded in Toronto in 1998 by Karla Hartl, the Society's mission is to promote the music of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940) and to build awareness of women's contributions to musical life. To this end, the Society publishes research on Kapralova and other women in music on itswebsite and in its online journal,and assists projects that make Kapralova's music available inprint, on record (first releases), and in performance (only world premieres).
The Kapralova Society is an associate member of the IAWM
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