Celebrating International Women's Day with the Boulanger Initiative

International Women’s Day is more than a celebration — it’s a call to build the systems that make women composers visible year-round. Amity Bryson speaks with Angel Azzurra of the Boulanger Initiative about the organization’s work expanding access to repertoire through the Boulanger Initiative Database (20,000 works and counting), educational programs, Wikipedia edit-a-thons, and partnerships with orchestras. Together they explore how programming, research, and advocacy can reshape the classical canon — one score, one stage, and one community at a time. From the rehearsal room to the concert hall, this conversation asks a simple but powerful question: What does it take not just to celebrate women composers… but to integrate them into the living fabric of music history?