We are celebrating five years of #oneconductoraday. Conductor Talia Ilan started this project to recognize and promote women conductors. It also promotes women in all leadership roles, in giving their work a context and wider recognition. In a world where women continually face inequality and challenges to their authority, it is important to celebrate those who work in these prominent, highly visible positions.
As Talia Ilan states, For five years, every single day, we have celebrated a conductor who is not a male conductor.
Looking back at the very first post of #oneconductoraday, the reason behind dedicating hundreds of hours to building this list and publishing a conductor every day has always been clear:
to prove to the public that there is no shortage of women conductors.And yes, also to make the sexist men uncomfortable with our existence. I don’t expect them to change. No, no, no, they won’t change.
But there are many others who were misled into believing that women conductors “don’t exist” or “aren’t out there.” They will no longer be able to say that. They will put pressure on orchestra managements, who will have no choice but to invite brilliant conductors who are not necessarily male.
Five years, 1,825 days, 1,825 conductors.
We’re not even close to running out of names.
#oneconductoraday continues.
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