sinfonietta

According to the report, three of the 10 orchestras that performed the highest proportion of works composed by women were in the United States: the American Composers Orchestra in New York, the Chicago Sinfonietta and National Philharmonic in North Bethesda, Md. But at the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, two of America’s top orchestras, only about 10 percent of the music programmed was composed by women.

It’s a vigorous work of mid-20th-century Neo-Classicism, and has fine company on the album in another: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1, with a wrenching slow movement and a driving finale.

Tony Award-winner Macy Schmidt, the first woman of color orchestrator in Broadway history, will be conducting the Barbie Land Sinfonietta, an all-women and majority women-of-color orchestra.

The audience will likely be a frothy sea of pink as the Barbie Land Sinfonietta takes the stage — an all-women, mostly women-of-color orchestra conducted by Tony Award winner Macy Schmidt.

North performs concertos by Mozart and Tchaikovsky in concert with Northwest Sinfonietta, conducted by Christophe Chagnard; 3 p.m.