I had the very great privilege of teaching a class on women composers (mostly historic) at Brandeis in the spring of 2007. The eight students and one auditor represented a wide spectrum of experience and interests. They all did excellent work and we contributed articles to Wikipedia (the online dictionary) about many of the composers we studied.
The Rebecca Clarke Society's commission of composer Ruth Lomon to orchestrate Clarke's Sonata for Viola came to fruition with the premiere on June 8, 2007 – this was a very big project. That performance was certainly the first of many – the second will be on Feb 10, 2007!
An audio file of the second movement (Vivace) of the orchestrated Sonata is available on our website where there is also information and our latest newsletter (PDF).
I also started working on a project revitalizing The Women's Philharmonic as an advocacy organization; I'll be focusing on this a lot in 2008.
