Female composers

[San Antone]

Germaine Tailleferre : only female composer of "Les Six"

[Mirror Image]

Germaine Tailleferre : only female composer of "Les Six"

And a composer that has been given little attention. There's hardly any recordings of any of her music. Her neglect is completely unjustified.

[pjme]

Zabaleta / Martinon are excellent.

Lavinia Meyer gives also a good performance.

https://www.youtube.com/v/8RumDQN_POY

[San Antone]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound

[San Antone]

Laura Karpman's "Ask Your Mama" : a grand multitude of American voices



Karpman was going through a bookstore when she stumbled onto a little-known epic poem by Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.  "What attracted me to the piece was not only that it was written by Langston Hughes, who I think is one of the most brilliant poets who ever lived," Karpman says, "but in the right-hand margins of the poem, Langston says exactly how the music should sound."

[CRMS]

When I was at university so many eons ago, there was a female composer on the music faculty - Pauline Oliveros, and I believe that she is still active.

On a more well-known note, I am surprised not to see (or have missed) Unsuk Chin.  Here is a performance of her Le Silence des Sirènes with the Gothenburg Symphony and soloist Barbara Hannigan...

https://vimeo.com/142247260

[pjme]

Exciting work! Hannigan is excellent.
The Gothenburg Symphony video's on Vimeo are well worth discovering.

P.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

When I was at university so many eons ago, there was a female composer on the music faculty - Pauline Oliveros, and I believe that she is still active.

On a more well-known note, I am surprised not to see (or have missed) Unsuk Chin.  Here is a performance of her Le Silence des Sirènes with the Gothenburg Symphony and soloist Barbara Hannigan...

https://vimeo.com/142247260

Oliveros is one composer I've discovered only this year. Remarkable composer who really pioneered electronic music!

[Monsieur Croche]

Pardon if this composer has already been mentioned in the previous six pages, which I was just to lazy to read.

Lucia Dlugoszewski [American] 1931 – 2000.

Fire Fragile Flight [1977]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubGWW3WWL04

[Rinaldo]

An interview with Olga Neuwirth:

"What I've always tried to do in my pieces is to elude categorization, because I don't want to be pigeonholed. Which in turn has, for me at least, meant that I could not in fact be categorized, and so now people say, With her, you never know what you're going to get. As if something being multifaceted meant it lacked quality. However, with my male colleagues it's exactly this quality that gets hyped as masterful."

[NikF2]

And a composer that has been given little attention. There's hardly any recordings of any of her music. Her neglect is completely unjustified.

My ex left me this CD -



When I got around to listen to it I was taken with her 'Ballad'. I know there are a few recordings out there, but I've really only heard her contribution to 'Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel'.

[Rinaldo]

Female Composers Shaking Up the Opera World

Throughout March, the Opera Philadelphia blog and social media channels will host a celebration of Women's History Month, shining the spotlight on the women creating opera today with guest posts and takeovers, beginning with an interview with War Stories director Robin Guarino. Next up: Breaking the Waves composer Missy Mazzoli highlights the contemporary composers who inspire her.

[Mirror Image]

Jenny McLeod

Who?

[Ten thumbs]

We are becoming a little more enlightened. However, it is still true that:

If Emilie Mayer had been a man, a full cycle of the symphonies would have been recorded years ago.

If Cecile Chaminade had been a man, box sets of her complete piano works would be readily available, with a choice of pianists.

If Fanny Mendelssohn had been a man, numerous complete recordings of her lieder would be on the market and she would be spoken of as one of the greatest in that field.

[jochanaan]

We are becoming a little more enlightened. However, it is still true that:

If Emilie Mayer had been a man, a full cycle of the symphonies would have been recorded years ago.

If Cecile Chaminade had been a man, box sets of her complete piano works would be readily available, with a choice of pianists.

If Fanny Mendelssohn had been a man, numerous complete recordings of her lieder would be on the market and she would be spoken of as one of the greatest in that field.

+1

[Christo]

Zabaleta / Martinon are excellent.

Lavinia Meyer gives also a good performance.

https://www.youtube.com/v/8RumDQN_POY

I 'grew up' with the Zabaleta reading of it; the piece remains an absolute favourite of mine. Haunting.

[vandermolen]

In this week of the 100th anniversary of the (albeit limited) granting of the female suffrage in the UK I thought I'd highlight this excellent new disc of music by Imogen Holst:
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The final movement of the String Quintet of 1982, in which Imogen Holst borrows a theme from the last entry in her father's notebook, is very moving.

[vandermolen]

Yesterday BBC Radio 3 broadcast a recording of Peggy Glanville-Hick's 'Etruscan Concerto' which I thought was great fun and very enjoyable. She was an Australian composer and a student of Vaughan Williams. She was, at one time, married to the composer Stanley Bate, as Christo probably knows ( )

Here it is:

https://youtu.be/guOLo4I8Ufc

[some guy]

Diana Salazar, Broken Nerve.

Quite a strong, lovely piece, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAseohJbAYc

Lidia Zielinska, Nobody is Perfect.

Also quite nice. I saw this live a couple of years ago. It was the high point of that festival for me.

https://soundcloud.com/lidia_zielinska/zielinska-nobody-is-perfect

Alice Shields, Coyote

A classic from 1981. This is from the opera Shaman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrSk8EX07uM

[Christo]

Yesterday BBC Radio 3 broadcast a recording of Peggy Glanville-Hick's 'Etruscan Concerto' which I thought was great fun and very enjoyable. She was an Australian composer and a student of Vaughan Williams. She was, at one time, married to the composer Stanley Bate, as Christo probably knows ( )

Here it is: https://youtu.be/guOLo4I8Ufc

Christo does.  Always liked her Etruscan Concerto, of which there are (at least) two recordings: