Rebecca Clarke: 29 May - 2 June

[BBMmk2]

Ferney, not an attack of BBMism? Can be catchy!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Having, erm, mastered the "English Brahmisian" while style studying with Stanford, Rebecca Clarke pursued inspirations in common with many of her English contemporaries. One feels disinclined to carp at undigested influences - Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Ravel especially - until having read the linked article below, illuminating as it is on what it once was to be a woman composer, irrespective of background - and by no means least an instrumental virtuoso plotting her own career through all the obstacles and discouragements which were to be encountered in that foreign country of the past. Well worth the insights it offers, I think.

http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/pdf/identity.pdf

[EdgeleyRob]

Having, erm, mastered the "English Brahmisian" while style studying with Stanford, Rebecca Clarke pursued inspirations in common with many of her English contemporaries. One feels disinclined to carp at undigested influences - Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Ravel especially - until having read the linked article below, illuminating as it is on what it once was to be a woman composer, irrespective of background - and by no means least an instrumental virtuoso plotting her own career through all the obstacles and discouragements which were to be encountered in that foreign country of the past. Well worth the insights it offers, I think.

http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/pdf/identity.pdf

Thanks S_A,and Pabs for post #6

[Nick Armstrong]

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