Notes from the Past: Finding an Audience
Nothing stimulates the desire to hunt through an archive for historical tidbits than an anniversary, and this year’s 130th Anniversary of...
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Sep 4, 2023
Notes from the Past: Anniversaries
Excitement is rising at the WMC as we prepare for our 130th anniversary celebration this season. Did the six women who first began the...
Feb 1, 2023
Notes from the Past: Our Hidden History
The new millennium has led to changes in the way the WMC communicates with its audience and supporters. We now have a website and a...
Dec 1, 2022
Notes from the Past: A WMC Holiday Tradition Returns
Since the 1990’s, a WMC concert has been held during the holiday season, a traditional time of music and celebration. As our musical gift...
Sep 30, 2022
Notes from the Past: WMC introduces Glenn Gould to Winnipeg
On September 28, 2022, Canada celebrated the 90th anniversary of the birth of pianist Glenn Gould. The WMC introduced Glenn to a Winnipeg...
May 31, 2022
Notes from the Past: Laughter is the Best Remedy
On January 9, 1937 the Winnipeg Free Press carried two articles in its Music section about upcoming performances in the city. One was...
Mar 31, 2022
Notes from the Past: The Woman Behind the WMC McLellan Competition
April 20, 2022 marks the 9th WMC McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. This biennial...
Mar 1, 2022
Notes from the Past: Amelita Galli-Curci and the WMC
Amelita Galli-Curci was a star when she came to Winnipeg on June 3, 1920, under the auspices of the Women’s Musical Club. Born in Milan...
Dec 1, 2021
Notes from the Past: Reflections on the First WMC Scholarship Recipient - 1915
What do Nellie McClung, Kitty Cheatham, Rose Fyleman, and Gilbert and Sullivan have in common? The answer is Winona Lightcap, soprano and...
Oct 31, 2021
Notes from the Past: Careful Management and the First WMC Scholarship
Twenty-one years after its establishment, the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg had done much to foster the appreciation of classical...
Oct 1, 2021
Notes from the Past: Serenity in Stone - WMC at the Winnipeg Auditorium 1940-1965
October 15, 1932 saw the opening, to great fanfare1, of the Winnipeg Auditorium, which was to serve as Winnipeg’s main concert hall...
May 31, 2021
Notes from the Past: The WMC of Winnipeg and Women’s Rights – Constance Eaton Hamilton
When Margaret Morse became a recipient of the Nellie McClung Foundation “Manitoba 150 Women Trailblazer” award this past year, the...
Apr 30, 2021
Notes from the Past: To (Have) Tea, or Not To (Have) Tea
As the wives of prominent men in the professional and business world, the six women who founded the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg were...
Mar 31, 2021
Notes from the Past: We’ve Been Here Before!
Covid-19 is not the first pandemic that the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg has had to face in its 126-year history. The influenza...
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