Women composers

[oddoneout]

Amy Beach is Composer Of The Week

Florence Price last week.
The whole women v female is a knotty problem now, given all the 'transgender/fluid gender/identifies as' issues being aired these days. The "not an adjective" applies to man flu but, as with that common usage, the meaning is widely understood, as is the case I would suggest when applied to the likes of women composers?

[Bryn]

Amy Beach is Composer Of The Week

Again, I'm glad to note. Second time in less than 2 years. As with Price, this week's programmes are repeats.

[Serial_Apologist]

Again, I'm glad to note. Second time in less than 2 years. As with Price, this week's programmes are repeats.

With the illustrative little piano pieces, in idiom 'twixt Fauré and Ravel, I was reminded of music from around that same period by Frank Bridge - as also, it has to be said, by some cloying sentimentality in that last song from the first programme. I missed first time around, however, and will try to remember to tune in each day this week.

[Serial_Apologist]

Florence Price last week.
The whole women v female is a knotty problem now, given all the 'transgender/fluid gender/identifies as' issues being aired these days. The "not an adjective" applies to man flu but, as with that common usage, the meaning is widely understood, as is the case I would suggest when applied to the likes of women composers?

The incipient question arising being, in what ways, given the roasting I received in the early days of the forum by asking, if not suggesting, that there might be innate differences between music composed by men and women - several asking if, for example, a particular cited work could be demonstrated as specificially masculine or feminine in character? - to which no answer could I give.

Thinking about it again, the question arose, as I remember, in the late 1970s, but it was specifically related to musical performance and role with in it, along with the premium placed on image and appearance, and how these would be expressed in the music, which at the time drove discussion within radical feminist circles. The question, could there be autonomous forms of musical performance, expression and audiences, reflecting women's experience as liberated from and unmediated by male expectations under residual vestiges of patriarchy? Or was it inevitable that women who composed music under conditions in patriarchial society would have had no alternative but to couch their own music in orthodox terms?

[Leinster Lass]

Again, I'm glad to note. Second time in less than 2 years. As with Price, this week's programmes are repeats.

I certainly enjoyed today's programme and look forward to hearing (and learning) more!

[LMcD]

The evening concert on May 4th included a REALLY beautiful work by Sally Beamish - her 3rd Viola Concerto. The introduction, which features the story which inspired the work, can be found 1 hour and 6 minutes in.

[Serial_Apologist]

The evening concert on May 4th included a REALLY beautiful work by Sally Beamish - her 3rd Viola Concerto. The introduction, which features the story which inspired the work, can be found 1 hour and 6 minutes in.

Thanks for the uptick on that, LMcD. I've always had a soft spot for Sammy Beamish's work. Sammy??? Sally.

[oddoneout]

This might be of interest

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8903373--la-muse-oubliee

[ardcarp]

Women composers

A little while ago years ago, one would not have heard the likes of Barabara Strozzi, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Gipps, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger very often (if at all) on R3. Now they pop up quite frequently, which is brilliant. There is of course a cohort of living British and American female composers who are often represented, most often, strangely, in choral works on Choral Evensong or the Kings/Johns seasonal broadcasts. Keep 'em coming!

[LMcD]

A little while ago years ago, one would not have heard the likes of Barabara Strozzi, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Gipps, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger very often (if at all) on R3. Now they pop up quite frequently, which is brilliant. There is of course a cohort of living British and American female composers who are often represented, most often, strangely, in choral works on Choral Evensong or the Kings/Johns seasonal broadcasts. Keep 'em coming!

Erm ... we already have a 'Women Composers' thread.

[Serial_Apologist]

A little while ago years ago, one would not have heard the likes of Barabara Strozzi, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Gipps, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger very often (if at all) on R3. Now they pop up quite frequently, which is brilliant. There is of course a cohort of living British and American female composers who are often represented, most often, strangely, in choral works on Choral Evensong or the Kings/Johns seasonal broadcasts. Keep 'em coming!

One of them is Composer of the Week this week!

[ardcarp]

Oops sorry.

we already have a 'Women Composers' thread.

Can someone send me a link?

I still think that contemporary women composers are represented more in the choral repertory than elsewhere, e.g. Roxana Panufnik on CE today.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oops sorry.


Can someone send me a link?

I still think that contemporary women composers are represented more in the choral repertory than elsewhere, e.g. Roxana Panufnik on CE today.

Here are two:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?21417-International-Women-s-Day-on-Radio-3

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?22847-International-Women-s-Day-2021

I can't find a specific thread on Women Composers - I thought there was one - but I'll keep looking.

[Richard Barrett]

I still think that contemporary women composers are represented more in the choral repertory than elsewhere

I don't have the figures to hand but I don't expect that's true. Many international festivals of contemporary composition are committing themselves to an equal gender balance among composers.

[Bert]

Women seem to be overrepresented in electronic music and choral. Interesting.