Women Composers' Thread/International Women's Day 2015 on R3

[Don Petter]

Is it not time to resurrect Hilda Tablet from the R3 vaults?

[french frank]

I have been asking this from the beginning of this thread. Beyond listing their names and works, is there really anything to talk about ‘women composers and their music*’that is distinct from the music composed by men? I am genuinely curious.

If anyone is going to answer, please do so in your own words and not by posting links.

What I meant was 'talking about the women composers and music that has been played by Radio 3 in connection with their International Women's Day celebration'. That's what makes them/it 'distinct' .

[Beef Oven!]

What I meant was 'talking about the women composers and music that has been played by Radio 3 in connection with their International Women's Day celebration'. That's what makes them/it 'distinct' .

Is there a list? Else we're flying blind.

[french frank]

Is there a list? Else we're flying blind.

There have been programme playlists for what has been played so far, haven't there?

[P. G. Tipps]

Strange old thread, and becoming stranger as it goes along ...

Still, I think I'll stick to my wholly gender-neutral, anti-sexist position on the matter, however bizarrely 'myopic' this appears to some!

[Beef Oven!]

I think I must be from Jupiter.

[doversoul1]

What I meant was 'talking about the women composers and music that has been played by Radio 3 in connection with their International Women's Day celebration'. That's what makes them/it 'distinct' .

Sorry to be thick but distinct from what? Or do you mean what we think about these composers’ works regardless of the composers being women?

Beefy
Look at Through the Night on Sunday (for example). Six hours of music all composed by women. Listed with the names of the composers and the performers. Hat off to the production team.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051zvvg

[Beef Oven!]

Sorry to be thick but distinct from what? Or do you mean what we think about these composers’ works regardless of the composers being women?

Beefy
Look at Through the Night on Sunday (for example). Six hours of music all composed by women. Listed with the names of the composers and the performers. Hat off to the production team.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051zvvg

Many thanks doversoul - most helpful

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

["Neuter" is what some people claim to put on forms when asked to indicate "gender". On electronic forms, this subversion isn't normally possible. ]

But may I add my thanks to doversoul for pointing out the Through the Night listings.

[french frank]

Sorry to be thick but distinct from what?

I put it in bold: has been played by Radio 3 in connection with their International Women's Day celebration as distinct from women composers in general or their music in general.That defines what I thought the thread was to be about - what people had been hearing on Radio 3 in the last few days.

[ahinton]

I think I must be from Jupiter.

Beats originating from Sirius, without doubt! (and as a certain one-time doyen of the game that Schönberg enjoyed playing with Gershwin 80 or so years ago might have put it, "you cain't be Sirius?!" - and, of course, Schönberg himself understood what it was to breath the air of other planets, arguably somewhat better than Holst did...)

[doversoul1]

I put it in bold: has been played by Radio 3 in connection with their International Women's Day celebration as distinct from women composers in general or their music in general.That defines what I thought the thread was to be about - what people had been hearing on Radio 3 in the last few days.

Ah, thanks. In that case, I can’t recommend this week’s Composer of the Week highly enough. Both the music and the presentation are absolutely delightful.

[Serial_Apologist]

But may I add my thanks to doversoul for pointing out the Through the Night listings.

Seconded! The works and their composers are to be found in RT, but in a very condensed form and in tiny print, so this is most useful. The only piece there that I already have is the Lili Boulanger Nocturne - very Cesar Franck in idiom, (but don't tell Caliban!!!) so I think it must be an early work of hers. All but 3 of the composers there are brand new to me, admittedly many of them out of my usual timezone, but which nonetheless probably corroborates points others have made about neglect.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Seconded! The works and their composers are to be found in RT, but in a very condensed form and in tiny print, so this is most useful. The only piece there that I already have is the Lili Boulanger Nocturne - very Cesar Franck in idiom, (but don't tell Caliban!!!) so I think it must be an early work of hers.

Sadly, there are no late works by Lili B.

[Nick Armstrong]

(but don't tell Caliban!!!)

Eh...? What...?

Ah... I see... yes, that sounds franckly disappointing...

What was not disappointing was the discovery this week of Mme Jacquet de la Guerre - I completely agree that

I can’t recommend this week’s Composer of the Week highly enough. Both the music and the presentation are absolutely delightful.

... R3 at its considerable best