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

[Don Petter]

'C'est magnifique, et c'est de la Guerre!'

[french frank]

I've become much happier about recommending posts on the Radio 3 Facebook page (no, you don't have to join) lately. There are several clips of women composers talking, which some may have missed: Lutyens, Weir, Musgrave, Beamish.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio3

[doversoul1]

I’ll post this on the EMS board but for a wider audience (), this will be good.

This week’s Early Music Show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051zxl5

Lucie Skeaping on Barbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677)

[Serial_Apologist]

I've become much happier about recommending posts on the Radio 3 Facebook page (no, you don't have to join) lately. There are several clips of women composers talking, which some may have missed: Lutyens, Weir, Musgrave, Beamish.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio3

"The feeling that I should scream if I heard a cadence again" - Liz Lutyens.

Amen to that!!!

(Sorry - I just have to laugh at my own peerless wit!)

Edit: Thanks for the link, ff, I should have said: it seems to provide limited access to programmes one may have missed that are on iPlayer - I hadn't realised.

[french frank]

it seems to provide limited access to programmes one may have missed that are on iPlayer - I hadn't realised.

I think it's just clips which are available for as long as the programme is available on the iPlayer. But worth keeping an eye out for. E. Smyth now added. And there was some archive of Alma Mahler a few days ago.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think it's just clips which are available for as long as the programme is available on the iPlayer. But worth keeping an eye out for. E. Smyth now added. And there was some archive of Alma Mahler a few days ago.

Yes I noticed it's mainly just clips - and then mostly only for a short time. My fault for not noticing the Robert Wyatt item on Tuesday sooner!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A real "plus" to this enterprise is that, for one day only, we'll be hearing mostly music new to most listeners.

[Serial_Apologist]

A real "plus" to this enterprise is that, for one day only, we'll be hearing mostly music new to most listeners.

[Beef Oven!]

A real "plus" to this enterprise is that, for one day only, we'll be hearing mostly music new to most listeners.

Excellent observation.

[Roehre]

A real "plus" to this enterprise is that, for one day only, we'll be hearing mostly music new to most listeners.

Indeed. But unfortunately the selection could be definitely more aimed at quality, in stead of based on gender only.

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed. But unfortunately the selection could be definitely more aimed at quality, in stead of based on gender only.

I'm suspending judgement for now.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm suspending judgement for now.

Fair comment.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Indeed. But unfortunately the selection could be definitely more aimed at quality, in stead of based on gender only.

Now, now! Why should IWD be treated differently from the selections on the other 364 days of the year?

[Roehre]

Now, now! Why should IWD be treated differently from the selections on the other 364 days of the year?

Specifically looking at TtN: Because the pool from which to draw is much smaller than for the male composers, which in itself is not very wide, looking at the quite regular repeats of works during TtN.
To give some examples:
Why not programming Grace Williams' Violin concerto, which recording was made by the BBC especially for the CotW about her?
Why progamming Gertrude van den Bergh as well as Van Rennes, even in the Netherlands considered to be second rate?
Why not programming the Felix Mendelssohn's works which were published as his but turned out to be his sister's?

To me this TtN tastes like a cobbled-together programme based on quickly available recordings and hardly any specific research, if at all.

Bur yes: most of it is generally terra incognita for (even) R3 listeners

[french frank]

To me this TtN tastes like a cobbled-together programme based on quickly available recordings and hardly any specific research, if at all.

Let's be fair: they are indeed limited to what's available - i.e. music which the EBU members are able to offer as having been broadcast on the various stations. It's not about research so much as selection and assembly ...