Female composers

[amw]

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

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ooooh sounds like another interesting pioneer I should read about. Thanks, amw.

[some guy]

I should really get me some new tires.

[vandermolen]

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

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.

[Mirror Image]

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.

[vandermolen]

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.

[Christo]

a copy of the CD after extensive Sherlock Holmes type detective work.

Wrong, that's this one:

[Mirror Image]

Great news John! Makes me even more pleased that I tracked down a copy of the CD after extensive Sherlock Holmes type detective work.

I'm so happy you didn't say Inspector Clouseau detective work.

[vandermolen]

I'm so happy you didn't say Inspector Clouseau detective work.

Here I am on the search for the 'Etruscan Concerto'.

[Turner]

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

The new ones are no doubt better than the old MGM mono LP with Surinach, which is quite sketchy.

[vandermolen]

Wrong, that's this one:

[vandermolen]

The new ones are no doubt better than the old MGM mono LP with Surinach, which is quite sketchy.

Good to know.

[Cato]

A nice interview with Lera Auerbach:

...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

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

[some guy]

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

[Roy Bland]

I find discrimination towards women composers a peak of idiocy

https://oboeclassics.com/~oboe3583/Women%20of%20Note/index.htm

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alexandra Pakhmutova.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nobu Koda.

Kikuko Kanai

[Roy Bland]

Women composers are absolutely underrated so it 's welcome


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

 

[71 dB]

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!

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post.