Join Boulanger Initiative’s Research Manager Dr. Caiti Beth McKinney and librarians from the Fleisher Collection 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!

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The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music 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 (this includes academic and amateur ensembles) 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.