Boulanger Initiative will host their annual two-day music festival, WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift, on May 30-31, at the The Mansion, Strathmore. This year’s event is an official World Pride Partner Event. For the purposes of this article only vocal concerts are included. The Opening Concert features the New Choir of Mt. Vernon with various instrumentalists including sitarist, vocalist, and composer {…}
The Boulanger Initiative will host WoCo Fest 2023: Awaken on May 5 -6 in Washington D.C. The Grammy® award-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth headline. The fifth annual event will feature the Stone Ridge Upper School Chorus and other multi-genre performances. Presentations include Dr. Leah Claiborne on Black American Women composers, a panel discussion on Boulanger Initiative’s new database, and yoga {…}
The Boulanger Initiative (BI) launched its BIPOC, Women, and Gender Marginalized Composers Repertoire Database on March 13. Boulanger Initiative’s Database aids those who wish to diversify classical music programming by providing information on underrepresented composers. BI spent years researching archives, compiling data, and testing beta versions of the database to create this much-needed resource. Each entry includes the composer name(s), {…}