Category: women’s history month
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Monday Link Round Up: January 30, 2017
News to start your week: BBC Radio 3 has commissioned a new work from composer Kate Whitley. The project, which is set to be premiered on International Women’s Day, will set the text of Malala Yousafzai’s 2013 UN speech to music. Learn more about this work, and other programming on International Women’s Day, at The Guardian.…
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Women’s History Month Link Round Up
It seems as though my newsfeed has been full of stories related to women and music in recent days. The flurry of activity, almost entirely connected to Women’s History Month – and the BBC Radio 3 devoting so much air time to women composers – has made for great reading over the past few weeks. Some highlights…
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Kaija Saariaho: A Primer
By Susan M. Brown Though now hailed as one of the greatest Finnish composers of her generation, Kaija Saariaho readily recalls a time at the Sibelius Academy when male teachers balked at teaching a “pretty girl,” claiming it was a waste of their time. But Saariaho, who as a child would ask her mother to…
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Women and Music Festival: Eastman Community Music School
The first of three Festival concerts on Saturday, March 29, was performed by students of the Eastman Community Music School. Boys and girls performed works composed by women, and four girls performed really lovely pieces that they had written themselves. The Lowry Hall was the setting, and the young performers did an excellent job at…