York Early Music Festival: EMS 15 July

[doversoul1]

York Early Music Festival - Revolting Women

Feisty, courageous, defiant. Four women break free from a world dominated by laws of conduct as dictated by men for women, calling for submission, compliancy, chastity, piety and modesty "which is so essential to your sex...will naturally dispose you to be rather silent....." (A Father's legacy to his Daughters, 1774). Music by child prodigy Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729), Ursuline nun Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Maddalena Sirmen (1745-1818) - a gifted Venetian violinist who studied with Tartini, and Mrs. Philarmonica - a woman hiding behind a pseudonym, whose Corelli-influenced trio Sonatas were published in London in 1715.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9w3zs

Revolting Women???

[oddoneout]

York Early Music Festival - Revolting Women

Feisty, courageous, defiant. Four women break free from a world dominated by laws of conduct as dictated by men for women, calling for submission, compliancy, chastity, piety and modesty "which is so essential to your sex...will naturally dispose you to be rather silent....." (A Father's legacy to his Daughters, 1774). Music by child prodigy Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729), Ursuline nun Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Maddalena Sirmen (1745-1818) - a gifted Venetian violinist who studied with Tartini, and Mrs. Philarmonica - a woman hiding behind a pseudonym, whose Corelli-influenced trio Sonatas were published in London in 1715.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9w3zs

Revolting Women???

Better clickbait potential than rebellious or independent-minded - who cares about accuracy....

[doversoul1]

I don’t know about the women but there was nothing at all revolting about the music. It was all very enjoyable.