Hello.
I've listened to pieces by dozens of composers, and the only female composer I've stumbled upon is Sofia Gubaidulina. To me it seems that female composers in the standard repertoire are practically non-existent.
I can understand that in past centuries women's musical capabilities weren't taken seriously, but how do things look like for women in this time and age? I mean, there are/have been talented and recognized female classical performers like Martha Argerich, Hilary Hahn, Jacqueline du Pré, Vanessa-Mae (kidding)... But to me it seems that female composers haven't had such a breakthrough. Or am I missing something?
Clara Schumann, Lili (and Nadia) Boulanger, Fanny Mendelssohn, off the top of my head. :)
There's a few around, they're just a little hard to spot.
Hi Tanuki - there are plenty of female composers to appreciate - I've probably only explored a limited number but will simply list some that I currently own w/ specific recordings that I have:
Beach, Amy - Chamber & Orchestral Works + Songs
Bon, Anna - Flute & Harpsichord Sonatas
Bonis, Mel (a.k.a. Melanie) - Piano Quartets & Flute Music
Clarke, Rebecca - Choral Music & Piano Trio
Farrenc, Louise - Piano Quintets & Symphonies
Hildegard von Bingen - ancient & so many if you're into medieval
Maconchy, Elizabeth - String Quartets
Mendelssohn, Fanny - Piano Trio & String Quartet
Schumann, Clara - Piano Music
There are likely other offerings from the composers other, and of course plenty of other ladies that I've not explored! ;D
Reason for edit: forgot to include Beach, who I just listened to a week ago!
Yes, you are missing something.
And judging from your comment about having listened to dozens of composers, I'd venture to guess that you've been missing a lot of male composers as well!
Let's see what I can do just off the top of my head (ignoring the "standard repertoire" part--I have no idea what's standard or not*):
Galina Ustvolskaya
Ana-Maria Avram
Roxanne Turcotte
Natasha Barrett
Christine Groult
Michele Bokanowski
Eliane Radigue
Annette Vandegorne
Lyn Goeringer
Pauline Oliveros
Bonnie Miksch
Laurie Spiegel
Iris ter Schiphorst
Isabel Mundry
Chaya Czernowin
Beatriz Ferreyra
Elainie Lillios
Elsa Justel
Meredith Monk
Zeena Parkins
Alice Shields
Pri Smiley
Gloria Coates
Anna Clyne
Diana Simpson
That's twenty-five without breaking a sweat. And I guess that qualifies for "dozens," too now, doesn't it? (There are lots more, by the way. A few minutes with my collection would unearth dozens more. (So at least 24.)
*And when I say "no idea," I mean that I do have some idea.
Quote from: SonicMan on January 26, 2009, 07:46:41 PM
Farrenc, Louise - Piano Quintets & Symphonies
Farrenc's Symphony No 1 [1840] belongs near the very top of my list of the best symphonies written between 1825 and 1875.
There are many more :
From France : Edith Canat - de Chizy, Thérèse Brenet, Germaine Tailleferre, Adrienne Clostre, Yvonne Desportes, Suzanne Demarquez, Betsy Jolas, Ginette Keller...
Britain: Elisabeth Lutyens, Elisabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, Judith Weir, Minna Keal
Belgium : Jacqueline Fontyn, Annelies Van Parys, Petra Vermote Denise Tolkowsky, Nini Bulterijs, José Vigneron en Chris Whittle. Mieke Van Haute, Erika Budai, Gwendolyn Sommereyns, Hanne Deneire, Kristin Desmedt, Ingrid Meuris, Antoinette Tronquo en Kaat Dewindt
the Netherlands : Tera De Marez-Oyens, Henriette Bosmans,Anna Cramer,Elisabeth Kuyper
Germany : Babette Koblenz, Ilse Fromm-Michaels,Adrianna Hölszky
Austria : Olga Neuwirth
and
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W20XHZGXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Jennifer Higdon.
Or, from the 19th century, the formidable Augusta Holmès
(http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/strasse/7920/1holme.jpg)
etc.
P.
Not mentioned as yet, Joan Tower.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BOsZ0gOjL._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Pg15pqZ7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ASTJVhLSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
There have been women composers since Hildegard von Bingen, who lived in the 12th century. Unfortunately, given the sexist attitudes of the past, they never got the exposure that they may have deserved.
But things have been changing vastly in recent years; there are more women composers than ever before, and they are being performed more often then ever before. In addition, music by women composers of the past has been revived, and there is now a considerable amount of music by female composers on CD.
New York Times chief music critic Anthony Tommasini has reported that about half of all the composition students at music schools,colleges and universities are now women.
Quote from: Superhorn on January 27, 2009, 06:55:11 AM New York Times chief music critic Anthony Tommasini has reported that about half of all the composition students at music schools,colleges and universities are now women.
That's pretty amazing.
:o
Quote from: The Unrepentant Pelleastrian on January 27, 2009, 07:04:38 AM
That's pretty amazing.
:o
No it's not. For an explanation, refer to Elder George:
http://www.mensaction.net/video/Vagina-Vocational-Centers.html
Quote from: Superhorn on January 27, 2009, 06:55:11 AM
Unfortunately, given the sexist attitudes of the past, they never got the exposure that they may have deserved.
Or maybe they did receive the exposure they deserved, just like every other obscure
male composer who's works have been laid aside in the trash bin of history, which essentially includes all of them except for the few geniuses who's compositions endured the test of time. In the words of Camille Paglia:
"Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome."
Quote from: some guy on January 26, 2009, 08:45:13 PM
Yes, you are missing something.
And judging from your comment about having listened to dozens of composers, I'd venture to guess that you've been missing a lot of male composers as well!
Let's see what I can do just off the top of my head (ignoring the "standard repertoire" part--I have no idea what's standard or not*):
Galina Ustvolskaya
Ana-Maria Avram
Roxanne Turcotte
Natasha Barrett
Christine Groult
Michele Bokanowski
Eliane Radigue
Annette Vandegorne
Lyn Goeringer
Pauline Oliveros
Bonnie Miksch
Laurie Spiegel
Iris ter Schiphorst
Isabel Mundry
Chaya Czernowin
Beatriz Ferreyra
Elainie Lillios
Elsa Justel
Meredith Monk
Zeena Parkins
Alice Shields
Pri Smiley
Gloria Coates
Anna Clyne
Diana Simpson
A nasty little remark followed by some pumped-up praise for yourself. ::)
......and Grazyna Bacewicz(Poland) and Dame Ethel Smyth(Britain); both recently being discussed in the Composer Discussion Forum :)
Quote from: Bulldog on January 27, 2009, 07:32:12 AM
A nasty little remark followed by some pumped-up praise for yourself. ::)
And another nasty little remark, this one without even a nice list to redeem it!
Quote from: some guy on January 27, 2009, 08:44:36 AM
And another nasty little remark, this one without even a nice list to redeem it!
You're the one who insulted a fellow board member for making an innocent posting. I suggest you apologize to him.
I would like to throw in two earlier female composers whose music is excellent beyond a shadow of doubt:
-- Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664): if you like Monteverdi you will respond to her music. This cd of her vocal music is wonderful and Kiehr is one of the top singers specializing in 17th century Italian music:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Uqv0sS7KL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
-- Camilla de Rossi (flourished 1707-10): very little is known about her except that she composed 4 oratorios during a short period for the court of Joseph I of Austria. This recording of one of those oratorios counts with generally pretty decent performers, and the music is of high quality and startling originality:
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000634WL.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SZJFVSQVL._SS400_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/Ljubica-Maric-Byzantine-Concerto-Threshold/dp/B0006AZPZ4
http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//CHAN10267H.htm
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/24/2018019/MaricOstinato.mp3[/mp3]
Ostinato super Thema Octoïcha, for piano, harp & string orchestra
Ljubica Maric (piano), Josip Pikelj (harp)
Belgrade Radio-Television Chamber Orchestra / Oskar Danon
Born on March 18, 1909, in Kragujevac, Serbia; died on September 18, 2003, in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. Education: Studied the violin and composition with Josip Slavenski at the Stankovic Music School in Belgrade; attended the Prague Conservatory (1929-37), where she studied composition with Josef Suk and Alois Hába, and conducting with Nikolay Malko.
Maric was still a student at the Prague Conservatory when she wrote her Wind Quintet, a work that brought her instant recognition. Although influenced by her teachers in Prague, including Alois Hába, known for his quarter-tone music, the Wind Quintet was recognized as a work of striking originality by audiences in Prague, Amsterdam, and Strasbourg. When she returned to Belgrade, she worked as a teacher at the Stankovic Music School, eventually obtaining a post at the Academy of Music, where she taught music theory.
Not long after Maric's return from Prague, World War II broke out in Europe. If wartime was hard, the postwar period in Yugoslavia brought further unexpected difficulties for creative artists. The new Communist government imposed the doctrine of socialist realism on all creative artists, including composers, stipulating that the artist's duty was to glorify reality. For musicians, this meant that only unsophisticated, simpleminded music was tolerated. Unwilling to conform, Maric devoted herself to studying traditional and medieval Serbian music. While these studies did not influence her later work in a literal sense, her affinity with the melancholy spirit of the Serbian Middle Ages obviously informed her artistic vision. During the 1950s, when artists regained some freedom, Maric started composing music inspired by medieval themes. A representative work from this period is the Songs of Space cantata, Maric's homage to the memory of the Bogomils, a religious sect that rejected the physical world as evil. Having admired Bosnia's mysterious Bogomil tombstones, Maric translated their enigmatic, yet compelling, symbolism, inscriptions, and images into music of rare suggestiveness.
Intending to underline the Byzantine background of Serbian medieval music, Maric developed the idea of the Byzantine oktoechos, the series of eight church modes, in her music. For Maric the oktoechos was not a literal technique but rather a symbol of archaic simplicity. And, as evidenced by works composed in the 1990s, Maric never stopped searching for her musical ideal of absolute archaic purity.
by Zoran Minderovic
We shouldn't overlook Mahler's wife:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/AMahlerSongsO.jpg)
Sarge
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on January 27, 2009, 07:09:06 AMNo it's not. For an explanation, refer to Elder George:
http://www.mensaction.net/video/Vagina-Vocational-Centers.html
That was most amusing... :D
Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaija_Saariaho
hasn't been mentioned yet.
Quote from: The Unrepentant Pelleastrian on January 27, 2009, 10:55:05 AM
That was most amusing... :D
Thanks.
Yes, very amusing. George makes this big distinction between women using nouns and men using verbs. It's just garbage, and please notice how the same accusations he lodges at women also apply to all the wonderful guys on Wall Street.
Quote from: The Unrepentant Pelleastrian on January 27, 2009, 10:55:05 AM
That was most amusing... :D
Thanks.
You understand the point he's trying to make though, right?
Quote from: Bulldog on January 27, 2009, 11:09:58 AM
George makes this big distinction between women using nouns and men using verbs.
No, that's not what he's doing, but i guess i shouldn't be surprised if his argument flied over your head.
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on January 27, 2009, 11:10:29 AM
You understand the point he's trying to make though, right?
Yes, of course... :)
Separately, I was thinking of his mannerisms and the delivery... Very funny.
I'm very fond of the little Narbutaite and Clarke that I've heard.
(http://classique.abeillemusique.com/images/accueil/commun/accroches/demessieuxgd.jpg)
Jeanne Demessieux - organiste.
I have a big apology to make to some guy. I assumed he wrote a post referring to SonicMan; looking at it again, it's clear that he was referring to the original poster. As a result of my lack of focus, I made assumptions about some guy's intent and motivation that were entirely out of line.
some guy:
I'm very sorry. If you're ever in Albuquerque, please look me up; I'd like to buy you a dinner.
Quote from: Bulldog on January 27, 2009, 04:02:13 PM
I have a big apology to make to some guy. I assumed he wrote a post referring to SonicMan; looking at it again, it's clear that he was referring to the original poster. As a result of my lack of focus, I made assumptions about some guy's intent and motivation that were entirely out of line.
some guy: I'm very sorry. If you're ever in Albuquerque, please look me up; I'd like to buy you a dinner.
Good evening
Don - I saw that post and assumed that the reference was to the OP and not me, so no worry from my part; but OTOH, your comments may have been appropriate, i.e. the response was rather insulting to the OP and whether one off the 'top of their head' could just type in all of those obscure women composers was dubious to me. If 'Some Guy' shows up for your offer, I would suggest Taco Bell! ;) ;D Dave
....and Ruth Gipps(1921-99):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gipps
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/gipps/index.htm
Based on her very fine Symphony No.2(Classico CD) Ruth Gipps is an undeservedly neglected composer.
Quote from: SonicMan on January 27, 2009, 04:14:28 PM
Good evening Don - I saw that post and assumed that the reference was to the OP and not me, so no worry from my part; but OTOH, your comments may have been appropriate, i.e. the response was rather insulting to the OP and whether one off the 'top of their head' could just type in all of those obscure women composers was dubious to me. If 'Some Guy' shows up for your offer, I would suggest Taco Bell! ;) ;D Dave
I think that some guy is heavily into contemporary music, so I'm not surprised that he could list many obscure modern composers. The man knows what's going on within his preferred area. As for a meal at Taco Bell, both you and some guy deserve better.
Bulldog, you're the best; I love eating dinner!
SonicMan, those women are most certainly not obscure. Well, OK, some of them are. But they shouldn't be, that's my point!
And I did list all of them from right off the top of my head, but forgetting the one I had just met in Vilnius last October, Gráinne Mulvey. Wow, that's some high-powered orchestral music there. And such a great person, too. So regardless, I am filled with shame.
Anyway, for your churlish suspicions, I invite you to dinner with Bulldog and me. My treat. If we're ever all three in Albuquerque at the same time, anyway. But you must be sheepish. Fair's fair! ;)
I have not seen Chen Yi listed. Some of her music is very dense and dissonant, quite a tough nut to crack. Other works are influenced by Chinese and other Asian traditions. Her "Si Ji" (Four Seasons) is colorful and approachable, even for a quite complex work. Alas, I do not think it has been recorded.
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte
http://www.egre.mb.ca/sc/index.html
Oh - and Ruth Crawford, Lili Boulanger and Carla Bley . . .
Ms. Su Lian Tan from Malaysia
http://www.kalvos.org/tansuli.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Lian_Tan
http://www.beautyinmusic.com/artist_pages/su_lian_tan.htm
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/music/hours/tan.htm
Quote from: Guido on January 27, 2009, 11:25:45 AM
I'm very fond of the little Narbutaite and Clarke that I've heard.
I second Narbutaitė - Maciek uploaded a neat string quartet by her a while back, which was the first time that I had heard even
of her. It won't be the last time I look into her music :)
Quote from: Dax on January 28, 2009, 01:56:54 AM
Ruth Crawford, Lili Boulanger
Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet is absolutely worth hearing, and can be found on this excellent Arditti recording with quartets by Beethoven, Nancarrow, Roger Reynolds and Xenakis. And this recording by John Eliot Gardiner has some of
Lili Boulanger's choral works, which are gorgeous.
--Bruce
Depends what you're looking for.
For the harp, no male composer surpassed Henriette Renié.She's the Goddess who pushed expressive harp music to new boundaries.
As with any women-related issues, to this day, you'll find at least two distinct avenues to explore: those who endeavored to do as well as their male counterparts and those who sought to generate an entirely different, female, aesthetic.
Quote from: Benny on January 28, 2009, 06:34:51 PM
Depends what you're looking for.
I'm looking for genius, for
there is nothing else
(http://www.francethisway.com/music/liliboulanger.jpg)
Lili Boulanger died too young to fulfill her promise. She did leave a number of extraordinary compositions. Her Pie Jesu was composed just before her death at the age of 25.[mp3=200,20,0,center]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/2/1559968/Pie%20Jesu.mp3[/mp3]
Two composers I haven't yet heard are Alice Mary Smith (2 symphonies) and the Swede, Elfrida Andrée. One I would like to hear more of is Emilie Mayer ( four symphonies at least).
It is true that unknown female composers are not necessarily good but in the past their quality has never been judged, which is why there is much to discover of value. Some of these composers persevered against all the odds even though the chances of their music being heard by a wide audience were practically non-existent. There were no CDs even one hundred years ago.
Not yet mentioned: the Russo-Estonian composer Galina Grigorjeva (b. 1962). I just listened to her choral work On Leaving, from the Baltic Voices 2 album. It's an extraordinary piece, very deep and meditative (depicting "the separation of the soul from the body" and based on Orthodox religious texts). Unfortunately it seems little of her work has been recorded - I would like to hear more.
http://klassikaraadio.err.ee/klassik/heliloojad/grigorjeva_bio_eng.htm
Quote from: some guy on January 27, 2009, 07:53:07 PM
Bulldog, you're the best; I love eating dinner!
SonicMan, those women are most certainly not obscure. Well, OK, some of them are. But they shouldn't be, that's my point!
And I did list all of them from right off the top of my head, but forgetting the one I had just met in Vilnius last October, Gráinne Mulvey. Wow, that's some high-powered orchestral music there. And such a great person, too. So regardless, I am filled with shame.
Anyway, for your churlish suspicions, I invite you to dinner with Bulldog and me. My treat. If we're ever all three in Albuquerque at the same time, anyway. But you must be sheepish. Fair's fair! ;)
You forgot Maja Ratkje!
Helena Tulve - Lijnen
1 à travers
2 Lijnen
3 Öö
4 abysses
5 cendres
6 nec ros, nec pluvia...
NYYD Ensemble
Olari Elts
Arianna Savall voice
Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
Sven Westerberg soprano saxophone
Jörgen Pettersson alto saxophone
Leif Karlborg tenor saxophone
Per Hedlund baritone saxophone
Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert flute
Mihkel Peäske flute
Silesian String Quartet
Szymon Krzeszowiec violin
Arkadiusz Kubica violin
Lukasz Syrnicki viola
Piotr Janosik violoncello
Recorded between November 1997 and June 2006
ECM New Series
Quote from: Ten thumbs on February 02, 2009, 05:07:22 AM
Two composers I haven't yet heard are Alice Mary Smith (2 symphonies) and the Swede, Elfrida Andrée. One I would like to hear more of is Emilie
Smith's Mendelssohnian works are definitely worth a listen:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613YW0VPGXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
I'll also put in a strong word for Boulanger, whose works are of very high quality and inventiveness, particularly her
Psalm 130: From the Depths of the Abyss, a dark and utterly striking choral/orchestral work with a highly dramatic Late Romantic style:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MVhg5UQaL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
I'll add to the voices praising Farrenc, as well. Check out her symphonies and piano quintets on CPO. And I see there's a new CPO disc of her chamber music to be released later this month.
Priaulx Rainier:
20th cent., South African...totally unique sound. Her SQ of 1939 is some of the most strangely beautiful music. Being cut off from the "tradition", her rhythms come from the natural world around her rather than Stravinsky or Bartok.
Roxanna Panufnik
Germaine Tailleferre
Eve Beglarian: the balloon lady... ::)
Finsterer
Neuwirth
Speach
There seems to be plenty of composerettes who can stand or fall based on the merits of their work. Why so much p.c.? God help the person who starts the black composers thread.
Diamanda Galas...oh,hohoho!!!
About to investigate Elfrida Andrée, at least her string quartet. There ought to be recordings of her major organ works out there but possibly only in Sweden. She also wrote four symphonies. I will have to see whether or not she proves to be yet another female genius.
One name I haven't yet seen on this thread is Amy Beach, known in her lifetime as "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach." I've heard her Piano Concerto, a big, fine, late-Romantic piece. :D
The Joan Tower pieces I've heard (over the radio) have been beautiful and challenging. 8)
Quote from: jochanaan on May 16, 2009, 02:25:34 PM
One name I haven't yet seen on this thread is Amy Beach, known in her lifetime as "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach." I've heard her Piano Concerto, a big, fine, late-Romantic piece.
Her composing for full orchestra was restricted by her husband but look out for her chamber works, e.g. Quartet Op 89 (single movement) or the Op 67 Piano quintet (yes, this is in F# minor). Her music is many layered and often requires careful listening.
Ruth Gipps (Symphony No 2 - a lovely score) and Grace Williams (Symphony No 2 - like VW No 4 - he was her teacher, Sea Sketches etc) are both composers I admire
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/kate-soper-vocal-experimentation/)
Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.
She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
More information including audio clips are found here (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/kate-soper-vocal-experimentation/).
Quote from: sanantonio on October 01, 2015, 07:31:27 AM
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/kate-soper-vocal-experimentation/)
Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.
She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
More information including audio clips are found here (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/kate-soper-vocal-experimentation/).
Very nice! ;D
"[T]he wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice" is certainly not how Evelyn would have liked me to compose my Op.129 8)
Hildegard von Bingen was brought up, but before her was Kassia (9th century).
Vocame has a nice disc and I seem to recall Naxos has a disc or two of her hymns (I once owned the Vocame disc, enjoyable, though I'm not sure it's HIP enough):
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mZAG8N5aL._SX355_.jpg)
Also, on the other end of the chronological (and sonic!) spectrum, there's Pauline Oliveros and the long dronescapes of Eliane Radigue.
Quote from: Wandering Aengus on October 03, 2015, 06:04:49 AM
Hildegard von Bingen was brought up, but before her was Kassia (9th century).
Vocame has a nice disc and I seem to recall Naxos has a disc or two of her hymns (I once owned the Vocame disc, enjoyable, though I'm not sure it's HIP enough):
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mZAG8N5aL._SX355_.jpg)
Also, on the other end of the chronological (and sonic!) spectrum, there's Pauline Oliveros and the long dronescapes of Eliane Radigue.
Excellent! Thanks.
I was just listening to Variations on the Orange Cycle of Elodie Lauten (1950-2014) when I found this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etflo3D8zL4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etflo3D8zL4)
Some contemporary composers I like:
Si bleu, si calme by Misato Mochizuki (b 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r66LJ3Rd1mg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r66LJ3Rd1mg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4dS1IKv3I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4dS1IKv3I)
Go Guitars by Lois V Vierk (b 1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchDQb-X-Is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchDQb-X-Is)
And, I recently listened to very nice cantatas of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729).
http://www.amazon.com/Jacquet-Guerre-Bibliques-Isabelle-Poulenard/dp/B00005V8RX/ (http://www.amazon.com/Jacquet-Guerre-Bibliques-Isabelle-Poulenard/dp/B00005V8RX/)
Pauline Hall:
(http://www.lawostore.no/assets/images/PSC3105_e0dff9_rszd_2.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/v/7shc5lhskT0
Elizabeth Vercoe
[asin]B00925TAAU[/asin]
How have I not placed Lera Auerbach on this topic?
https://www.youtube.com/v/rpRr-tTEpfw
Pamela Marshall
[asin]B00RLXVX9G[/asin]
Quote from: karlhenning on October 05, 2015, 06:13:14 AM
Elizabeth Vercoe
[asin]B00925TAAU[/asin]
https://www.youtube.com/v/DEqxqNkUV9A
Quote from: karlhenning on October 05, 2015, 06:22:58 AM
Pamela Marshall
[asin]B00RLXVX9G[/asin]
https://www.youtube.com/v/52gD__dwW_A
Edith Canat - de Chizy
http://www.youtube.com/v/3tlR7pQILrE
Jacqueline Fontyn
http://www.youtube.com/v/hgpqbEQCf8Y
Kassia (c. 810-843/865): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassia
https://www.youtube.com/v/ioWWIiG_sHc
Henriette Bosmans
http://www.youtube.com/v/69QT3cwSXhI
Tera de Marez - Oyens
http://www.youtube.com/v/UXmLBi7XYto
Elisabeth Lutyens
http://www.youtube.com/v/73kMX1ENUEo
and
The skull!
http://www.youtube.com/v/di19ZKLZlKQ
Ruth Gipps - for me thé discovery in this respect of recent years, especially on hearing her fine and moving Second Symphony in one movement (1945), though the Fourth, also on Youtube, may be considered her masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/v/IaD8Cc5U6qA
Thanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!
Peter
Quote from: pjme on October 05, 2015, 11:23:57 AMThanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!
Peter
:) ... at the same time I cannot but wholeheartedly endorse your contributions here. :) (Heard Henriëtte Bosmans' fine
concertinos a couple of times in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, BTW).
Three of my favorite living composers are women: Marta Ptaszynska, Marta Gornicka, and Liza Lim (who is probably my favorite living composer).
Ptaszynska's Space Model for Percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMbCmZgSLs
Marta Gornicka's Magnificat for Women Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0XWV2Mu3U
Liza Lim's Invisibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb81dD7Mems
^I hadn't heard Liza Lim before. I had a bit of fun checking out things on YT, including her testing unusual instruments with Ensemble MusikFabrik:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2gQuEqwoM
And her interviewing Irvine Arditti (who seems a refreshingly down to earth guy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTCB4E9u7k
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 07, 2015, 10:25:38 PM
^I hadn't heard Liza Lim before. I had a bit of fun checking out things on YT, including her testing unusual instruments with Ensemble MusikFabrik:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2gQuEqwoM
And her interviewing Irvine Arditti (who seems a refreshingly down to earth guy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTCB4E9u7k
Glad to have been the one to introduce. And thanks to you for that interview. Watching it now.
Re: Liza Lim
Liza agreed to be included in my series of composer profiles. Her article - which includes a short interview, her description of Navigator, a recent operatic work, as well as an audio clip - can be found here (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/composer-profile-liza-lim/).
Very cool blog, sanantonio.
One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.
So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it. :)
Quote from: some guy on October 08, 2015, 10:05:16 AM
Very cool blog, sanantonio.
One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.
So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it. :)
Thanks, SG.
Quote from: some guy on October 08, 2015, 10:05:16 AM
Very cool blog, sanantonio.
One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.
So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it. :)
I'm in total agreement. Truly a wonderful site. I can always back someone giving attention to Lim.
Roxanna Panufnik : using music to bridge religious differencesPanufnik is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Polish Catholic father, the composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik; the co-existence of religions and cultures is an essential part of her identity.
QuoteShe says, "there's so much common ground between the monotheistic faiths. Obviously there are some fundamental differences in the way we practice. But I think that too much time and energy is spent on the differences and not enough on the things that we all share. That's what I want to do musically - to highlight those universal elements."
Read more and hear audio samples here. (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/roxanna-panufnik-using-music-to-bridge-religious-differences/)
Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites
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Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.
More info and audio clips can be found HERE (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/morgan-krauss-the-clashing-of-emotional-opposites/).
Quote from: sanantonio on October 11, 2015, 06:48:14 AM
Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites
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Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.
More info and audio clips can be found HERE (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/morgan-krauss-the-clashing-of-emotional-opposites/).
Very nice, and definitely evokes "emotional opposites"! 8)
Quote from: Philo on October 07, 2015, 12:10:58 PM
Three of my favorite living composers are women: Marta Ptaszynska, Marta Gornicka, and Liza Lim (who is probably my favorite living composer).
Ptaszynska's Space Model for Percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMbCmZgSLs
Marta Gornicka's Magnificat for Women Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0XWV2Mu3U
Liza Lim's Invisibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb81dD7Mems
Liza Lim is a wonderful composer! One of my favourites (not just of female composers)
Currently listening to Helen Grime's clarinet concerto on this disc
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Helen Grime is now right up there with Ferneyhough and Adės as one of my favourite British composers.
This is the last piece performed on that disc I posted above. Fantastic seeing it be performed! http://youtu.be/ZLH1SoCfjqs
Missy Mazzoli : composer for a new dark age
(https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/mazzoli1.jpg?w=300) (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/missy-mazzoli-composer-for-a-new-dark-age/)
Missy Mazzoli (born 1980) is an American composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, New York who has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and operatic work. One of her recent works, Vespers for a New Dark Age, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, which inhabits the sometimes disturbing intersection between technology and humanity. The piece, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, takes up the bulk of her new album of the same name released in March, 2015.
Vespers reimagines the traditional vespers prayer service, exploring the intersection of our modern technological age with the archaic formality of religious services.
With madame Claude Arrieu back to 1934!
https://www.youtube.com/v/inRagQI8Du4
Hanna Kulenty's trumpet concerto nr. 1 / 2002. She has written two more trumpetconcerti since then! Read more about this composer at http://www.hannakulenty.com/01.1_news.html
https://www.youtube.com/v/ZL5RBUdR464
Performers not mentioned. Possibly Marco Blaauw on trumpet.
Trumpet Concerto (2002) by Hanna Kulenty was awarded the first prize by radio music producers participating in the UNESCO 50th International Rostrum of Composers, held at the ORF in Vienna, June 2 - 6 2003.
For this achievement Hanna Kulenty received the UNESCO Mozart Medal from the International Music Council.
"One of Poland's most interesting composers of the middle generation".
[Graham Dixon, BBC Radio]
Trumpet Concerto was performed by Marco Blaauw, trumpet, and by The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald Zollman.
On 22 September 2003 Trumpet Concerto was again performed, this time at the Warsaw Autumn Festival with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Renato Rivolta, and again Marco Blaauw on his red quarter-tone trumpet.
Alla Zagaykevych :composer; performance artist; musicologist
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Alla Zahaikevych or Zagaykevych (December 17, 1966) is a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music, performance artist, organiser of electroacoustic music projects, musicologist. List of Zagaykevych's works include symphonic, instrumental and vocal chamber music, electro-acoustic compositions, multi-media installations and performances, chamber opera, music for films.
A recording of her electro-acoustical works is available, Nord/Ouest.
(https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/alla-zagaykevych-composer-performance-artist-musicologist/)
Marina Khorhova : existential sounds on the border of life (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/marina-khorhova-existential-sounds-on-the-border-of-life/)
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"My composition VORderGRENZE (2010) for clarinet, cello and prepared piano deals with the edges of life: existential sounds on the border of life and death represented by different breath sounds, reinforced with partials and translated into the instrumental parts. The fight to the last breath is the essential message of the piece, which is expressed by some extreme sound gestures. Various processes and characteristics of inhalation and exhalation were tried in quasi sound-photographs. Suffocating breath sounds, for example, are chaotic and noisy. Last breaths have a dark timbre with delicate nuances (such as wheezing) during inhalation and exhalation. The instrumentalists were also directed to blow on megaphones and this natural and quiet breathing was compared and linked, as it were, with the inhalation and exhalation of the instrumental sounds."
Quote from: sanantonio on October 22, 2015, 04:12:23 AM
Marina Khorhova : existential sounds on the border of life (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/marina-khorhova-existential-sounds-on-the-border-of-life/)
(http://www.villa-aurora.org/tl_files/villa-aurora/fotos/veranstaltungen/WelcomingReception/2014/Khorkova2.png)
"My composition VORderGRENZE (2010) for clarinet, cello and prepared piano deals with the edges of life: existential sounds on the border of life and death represented by different breath sounds, reinforced with partials and translated into the instrumental parts. The fight to the last breath is the essential message of the piece, which is expressed by some extreme sound gestures. Various processes and characteristics of inhalation and exhalation were tried in quasi sound-photographs. Suffocating breath sounds, for example, are chaotic and noisy. Last breaths have a dark timbre with delicate nuances (such as wheezing) during inhalation and exhalation. The instrumentalists were also directed to blow on megaphones and this natural and quiet breathing was compared and linked, as it were, with the inhalation and exhalation of the instrumental sounds."
I couldn't find this on Youtube but sampled a work of hers there. I'm listening now from your blog. It has a Pink Floyd "Echoes" quality that I like.
Quote from: Mr. Three Putt on October 22, 2015, 04:22:40 AM
I couldn't find this on Youtube but sampled a work of hers there. I'm listening now from your blog. It has a Pink Floyd "Echoes" quality that I like.
Glad you listened and enjoyed it. I wish she would update her Soundcloud page with some of her more recent works; e.g. I am interested in hearing her second string quartet (2015). Thanks.
Sarah Kirkland Snider : Unremembered (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/sarah-kirkland-snider-unremembered/)
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"In the case of Unremembered, that was a project where the commissions came from two different places and the piece sort of evolved over time. It started out as a Roomful of Teeth commission. I wrote these five songs, based on these poems that I asked my friend Nathaniel [Bellows] to write. These poems felt like a leather-bound book of old stories that I wanted to dive into. I really loved writing those songs, so when we were finished, Nathaniel kept writing more poems and I decided to make it a song cycle."
Quote from: sanantonio on October 22, 2015, 05:42:58 AM
Glad you listened and enjoyed it. I wish she would update her Soundcloud page with some of her more recent works; e.g. I am interested in hearing her second string quartet (2015). Thanks.
I just made a Soundcloud page to follow a few composing friends. My page will remain blank, as I'm likely to decompose before composing anything.
Annea Lockwood : sound artist (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/annea-lockwood-sound-artist/)
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Born in New Zealand in 1939 and living in the US since 1973, Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of the rich world of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound art and installations, through text-sound and performance art to concert music.
Has Vivian Fung been mentioned. There is an excellent Naxos CD:
[asin]B008N66KNO[/asin]
Or Judith Lang Zaimont? She has had several Naxos CDs. I found the CD below in the bargain bin at Amoeba, and it's pretty good
[asin]B00004TVAE[/asin]
Her Symphony No. 1 and other orchestral works.
Lisa Bielawa : Singing Rilke (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/lisa-bielawa-singing-rilke/)
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Lisa Carol Bielawa (born in San Francisco, California, September 30, 1968) is a composer and vocalist. She is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and spent a year composing as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. Her song cycle, The Lay of the Love and Death, has recently received a very good recording by baritone Jesse Blumberg and violinist Colin Jacobsen (both premiered the work in 2006) on Innova Records.
(https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/lisa-bielawa2.jpg?w=764)
Whoa. Ró for flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin I, violin II, viola & cello.
https://www.youtube.com/v/m_4JM4rcn70
Second piece by Anna Þorvaldsdóttir I've heard, after aequilibria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7C0nZpjiE), and I like this one even better.
Caroline Shaw ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogu7Wfg1MLY
Quote from: psu on October 31, 2015, 04:40:07 AM
Caroline Shaw ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogu7Wfg1MLY
Shaw's amazing, I keep returning to both the celebrated
Partita and other pieces she's done. Even Kanye West is a fan! (http://www.therestisnoise.com/2015/10/kanye-west-obama-caroline-shaw.html)
Quote from: Rinaldo on October 31, 2015, 11:32:05 AM
Shaw's amazing, I keep returning to both the celebrated Partita and other pieces she's done. Even Kanye West is a fan! (http://www.therestisnoise.com/2015/10/kanye-west-obama-caroline-shaw.html)
If it has Kanye West's endorsement which is hard to get (ask Taylor Swift) then that's all I need to know...
Quote from: Rinaldo on October 30, 2015, 11:37:22 AM
Whoa. Ró for flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin I, violin II, viola & cello.
Whoa, indeed. Very beautiful piece. Between this and Halloween, I'm kind of getting in the mood to play Silent Hill!
Another name that's new to me, the Estonian composer Helena Tulve.
https://www.youtube.com/v/AjdkyBKF57Q
Quote from: Rinaldo on November 02, 2015, 05:29:25 AM
Another name that's new to me, the Estonian composer Helena Tulve.
https://www.youtube.com/v/AjdkyBKF57Q
Wonderful composer. I interviewed her for my blog -
HERE (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/composer-profile-helena-tulve/).
Quote from: sanantonio on November 02, 2015, 05:51:04 AM
Wonderful composer. I interviewed her for my blog - HERE (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/composer-profile-helena-tulve/).
Cool, thanks for the link! I need to go through the older entries in your archive.
This March the Houston Symphony will deliver the premiere performance of Gabriela Lena Frank's viola concerto. She's a very good composer - I'm thinking about making the trip.
Another good female composer: Ester Mägi (b. 1922).
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Ester Mägi (born 10 January 1922) is an Estonian composer, widely regarded as the First Lady of Estonian Music.
Her compositional output is substantial and represents all genres, from chamber and vocal music to choral and highly regarded symphonic works. She trained initially under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatory, then from 1951 to 1954 at the Moscow Conservatory under Vissarion Shebalin. Amongst her best-known works are her Piano Sonata (1949), Piano Trio in F minor (1950), Piano Concerto (1953), Violin Concerto (1958), Symphony (1968), Variations for Piano, Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (1972), Bukoolika for orchestra (1983) and Vesper for violin and piano/organ (1990, arranged for strings in 1998). Much of her work has been inspired by Estonian folk music.
https://www.youtube.com/v/OfkXE_bsakE
https://www.youtube.com/v/Ady_84T2ESU
Quote from: Rinaldo on October 30, 2015, 11:37:22 AM
Whoa. Ró for flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin I, violin II, viola & cello.
https://www.youtube.com/v/m_4JM4rcn70
Second piece by Anna Þorvaldsdóttir I've heard, after aequilibria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7C0nZpjiE), and I like this one even better.
Yes, very lovely piece!
Myriam Alter : encompassing jazz, classical music, and various European influences (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/myriam-alter-encompassing-jazz-classical-music-and-various-european-influences/)
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Coming from a Judeo-Spanish family, Myriam Alter was raised with all kinds of musics such as Latin, Italian, Oriental, Spanish, South American and classical. As a piano player she was trained in classical music but later found her way into jazz.
Myriam Alter doesn't play the piano herself on her fifth record, Where is There (2007), she "merely" composed eight songs and assembled a sextet to perform them: reassembling the rhythm section from her last album, If of bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron, as well as clarinet player John Ruocco, she added to the mix pianist Salvatore Bonafede, cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, and soprano saxophonist Pierre Vaiana.
Laurie Anderson : performance artist; poet; provocateur; widow (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/laurie-anderson-performance-artist-poet-provocateur-widow/)
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Initially trained as a sculptor, Laurie Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave, which was based on her landmark recording Mister Heartbreak ((Warner Bros. 1984)
She has once again directed her creative energies toward film with the release in October of Heart of a Dog at once mediation on life, loss and the passage of time.
At the center of the imagery and subtle ambiances and strings, stands her voice which is mesmerizing and hypnotic. Her abstract thoughts on a variety of subjects, such as death, love, loss, grief are tapping deeply into the subconscious and resonate strongly in the way poetry does. She loves to examine a certain subject from innumerable angles and that sounds like an amazing outpouring of stories in a stream of consciousness manner that subtly intertwine, mesh and morph together. The result to that is a compelling, single intimate story.
"Every love story is a ghost story," Ms. Anderson says at one point, quoting David Foster Wallace, yet another lingering spirit.
(https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/laurie1.jpg?w=365&h=261)
Germaine Tailleferre : only female composer of "Les Six" (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/germaine-tailleferre-only-female-composer-of-les-six/)
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Quote from: sanantonio on November 16, 2015, 07:20:49 AM
Germaine Tailleferre : only female composer of "Les Six" (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/germaine-tailleferre-only-female-composer-of-les-six/)
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And a composer that has been given little attention. There's hardly any recordings of any of her music. Her neglect is completely unjustified.
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Zabaleta / Martinon are excellent.
Lavinia Meyer gives also a good performance.
https://www.youtube.com/v/8RumDQN_POY
Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/anna-thorvaldsdottir-composer-whose-work-conjures-entire-environments-of-sound/)
(https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/anna-thorvaldsdottir3.jpg?w=364)
Laura Karpman's "Ask Your Mama" : a grand multitude of American voices (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/laura-karpmans-ask-your-mama-a-grand-multitude-of-american-voices/)
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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."
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 (https://vimeo.com/142247260)
Exciting work! Hannigan is excellent.
The Gothenburg Symphony video's on Vimeo are well worth discovering.
P.
Quote from: CRMS on December 03, 2015, 06:58:03 PM
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 (https://vimeo.com/142247260)
Oliveros is one composer I've discovered only this year. Remarkable composer who really pioneered electronic music!
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
An interview with Olga Neuwirth (https://van-us.atavist.com/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."
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 16, 2015, 07:34:47 AM
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 -
(http://i.imgur.com/Mqrhfn9.jpg)
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'.
Female Composers Shaking Up the Opera World (https://www.operaphila.org/backstage/opera-blog/2017/missy-mazzoli-female-composers-shaking-up-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.
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.
Quote from: Ten thumbs on March 21, 2017, 03:28:50 AM
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
Quote from: pjme on November 16, 2015, 10:53:14 AM
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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.
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:
[asin]B074JVBPKD[/asin]
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.
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
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
Quote from: vandermolen on February 07, 2018, 04:53:52 AMYesterday 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. :D Always liked her
Etruscan Concerto, of which there are (at least) two recordings:
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Else Marie Pade is probably one of the most important Danish composers and I had never heard of her until last year: one of the pioneering composers of electronic music whose work seems to have been basically forgotten, probably because she was not French or German. And, I mean, misogyny and whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/v/28TqFKy4lG0
https://www.youtube.com/v/pmvmyCn4gqA
https://www.youtube.com/v/0RuX5GwOvgw
Ooooh sounds like another interesting pioneer I should read about. Thanks, amw.
I should really get me some new tires.
Quote from: Christo on February 08, 2018, 02:33:08 AM
Christo does. :D Always liked her Etruscan Concerto, of which there are (at least) two recordings:
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That's really helpful. Thanks. I managed to get a 'hard copy' CD of the Etruscan Concerto coupled with the Lou Harrison comparatively inexpensively from an outlet in Cologne.
:)
Quote from: vandermolen on February 09, 2018, 02:39:32 AM
That's really helpful. Thanks. I managed to get a 'hard copy' CD of the Etruscan Concerto coupled with the Lou Harrison comparatively inexpensively from an outlet in Cologne.
:)
This isn't about the Glanville-Hicks work, but that work by Lou Harrison
Seven Pastorales is wonderful and, for me, the best thing on that disc.
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 09, 2018, 06:07:35 AM
This isn't about the Glanville-Hicks work, but that work by Lou Harrison Seven Pastorales is wonderful and, for me, the best thing on that disc.
Great news John! Makes me even more pleased that I tracked down a copy of the CD after extensive Sherlock Holmes type detective work.
8)
Quote from: vandermolen on February 09, 2018, 08:34:12 AMa copy of the CD after extensive Sherlock Holmes type detective work.
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Wrong, that's this one:
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Quote from: vandermolen on February 09, 2018, 08:34:12 AM
Great news John! Makes me even more pleased that I tracked down a copy of the CD after extensive Sherlock Holmes type detective work.
8)
I'm so happy you didn't say Inspector Clouseau detective work. ;)
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 09, 2018, 07:17:52 PM
I'm so happy you didn't say Inspector Clouseau detective work. ;)
:)
Here I am on the search for the 'Etruscan Concerto'.
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Quote from: Christo on February 08, 2018, 02:33:08 AM
Christo does. :D Always liked her Etruscan Concerto, of which there are (at least) two recordings:
(http://e-cdn-images.deezer.com/images/cover/07948734a703df961c0cc5d949e6d6b2/200x200-000000-80-0-0.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519137F5NXL._AC_US218_.jpg)
The new ones are no doubt better than the old MGM mono LP with Surinach, which is quite sketchy.
Quote from: Christo on February 09, 2018, 08:51:45 AM
Wrong, that's this one:
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:)
Quote from: Turner on February 10, 2018, 12:50:45 AM
The new ones are no doubt better than the old MGM mono LP with Surinach, which is quite sketchy.
Good to know.
A nice interview with
Lera Auerbach:
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...What emerged, following studies at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, was a compositional style as inventive as it was old-fashioned. On one hand, Auerbach writes music in 18th-century forms — sonatas, fugues, chorales — using gestures and the harmonic language of the 19th century. On the other, she gravitates towards the surreal.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie, which pays homage to the nonsense tradition. "I wanted to create a piece that could speak to the young and young at heart," explains Auerbach. Accordingly, the piece revolves around a travelling storyteller, played by a solo violinist, and his cabinet of fantastical creatures. But, like the nonsense works of Lewis Carroll, it has hidden, even sinister meanings: "That is where the menagerie of creatures comes in. Take the moon-rider: he is a little like a gargoyle. He protects us from nightmares, but he is pretty much a nightmare in himself."
...
https://www.ft.com/content/b7dd1b38-4503-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1 (https://www.ft.com/content/b7dd1b38-4503-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1)
Check this out: around 3:00 one begins to hear the 1700's (
Pergolesi)..but maybe not quite... 0:)
https://www.youtube.com/v/psnEwE0_KGM
Ustvolskaya while still in college:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa3EiHQk16k
And a bit later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZ0UBC07Ow
And, just to round off the piano theme, some Andrea Neumann:
https://vimeo.com/14577016
I find discrimination towards women composers a peak of idiocy
https://oboeclassics.com/~oboe3583/Women%20of%20Note/index.htm
Women composers are absolutely underrated so it 's welcome
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The Muffled Voices festival is the first international project dedicated to supporting and recognizing women's contributions to classical music. The initiative was implemented by the Lyrics Classic music organization together with the Shostakovich and Stravinsky publishing house and the Music of Our Time project. The first season of the festival is dedicated to the outstanding composer, author of more than 500 works and Honored Artist of Russia Tatyana Chudova.
For the "Muffled Voices" festival program, 10 chamber operas were selected, created by seven talented female composers and representing various musical styles: Tatiana Chudova, Russian Women, Tatiana's Dream, The Head of Professor Dowell, Tchaikovsky - Von Meck "; Amy Mercy Beach, Cabildo; Missy Mazzoli, "Proof"; Anna LeBaron, "The Blues Call Will Set You Free"; Alina Nebykova, "Zhdana"; Anna Kuzmina, "Dreams and Not Dreams"; Alina Podzorova, "Periodic Table".
The first three premieres will take place at the opening of the festival on the stage of the theater hall of the Moscow International House of Music on February 7. The program will open with Tatiana Chudova's operas "Tatiana's Dream" and "Russian Women", as well as Amy Beach's "Cabildo" performed by soloists of the Bolshoi Theater, the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Helikon Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. On April 15, in the Concert Hall of Zaryadye Park, they will perform a vocal cycle of six songs for soprano and string quartet based on poems by Anna Akhmatova and will again perform Amy Beach's Cabildo, an opera with a historical plot about the colonial prison in New Orleans and the escape of the pirate Pierre Lafitte.
February 7
Theater hall MMDM
Kosmodamianskaya embankment, 52/8
Starts at 19:00
April 15
Zaryadye Concert Hall
Varvarka, 6, building 4
Starts at 19:00
Recently I have explored the music of Croatian Dora Pejačević (1885 – 1923). I heard her Symphony on TV and found it quite nice, in some ways even Elgarian, or rather a Germanic version of Elgar such as Richard Strauss maybe? She seems to have been largely self-taught as was Elgar which might explain why their approach to late-romantic writing has similar feel. While the works I have heard by her haven't been mind-blowing, they are pleasant to listen to. I especially like her slow movements. She knew how to write those!
Quote from: Christo on February 08, 2018, 02:33:08 AMChristo does. :D Always liked her Etruscan Concerto, of which there are (at least) two recordings:
(http://e-cdn-images.deezer.com/images/cover/07948734a703df961c0cc5d949e6d6b2/200x200-000000-80-0-0.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519137F5NXL._AC_US218_.jpg)
The Australian recording is also on this set
And lo and behold, this
Women of Note series -- which is dedicated to women composers from Australia -- is now up to 6 volumes!
Jacqueline Fontyn (https://www.jacquelinefontyn.be/) is, at 94, the female musical nestor of Belgium.
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I've just started to explore this fantastic release, "New Light on French Romantic Women Composers" (1800-1920)
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It is truly amazing compilation!
totally agree
https://wophil.org/?doing_wp_cron=1731898247.2387220859527587890625