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Composing Women - March Ovation Bonus Episodes Classical music has a history of Composing... Women! So this Women's History Month Tri States Public Radio shines the spotlight... one every weekday... on over twenty great female composers. From baroque to romantic... to impressionist... to post-serialist. From the mystic Abbess who advised the Pope... to the Chicagoan whose works were rediscovered in an abandoned house. Listen in for Composing Women... Every weekday during March at 7:19 during Morning Edition, or at 5:48 during All Things Considered, as TSPR Music Director Ken Zahnle introduces you to our composer of the day... and at 11:00 a.m. during Ovation for a featured work by our featured classical master.
Composing Women - March Ovation Bonus Episodes

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Composing Women - March Ovation Bonus Episodes

Composing Women - March Ovation Bonus Episodes

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Classical music has a history of Composing... Women! So this Women's History Month Tri States Public Radio shines the spotlight... one every weekday... on over twenty great female composers. From baroque to romantic... to impressionist... to post-serialist. From the mystic Abbess who advised the Pope... to the Chicagoan whose works were rediscovered in an abandoned house. Listen in for Composing Women... Every weekday during March at 7:19 during Morning Edition, or at 5:48 during All Things Considered, as TSPR Music Director Ken Zahnle introduces you to our composer of the day... and at 11:00 a.m. during Ovation for a featured work by our featured classical master.

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Composing Women - Jennifer Higdon

Born in Brooklyn in 1962, Jennifer Higdon grew up near Atlanta and in Appalachian Tennessee, teaching herself flute at 15 and playing drums in high school marching band... not beginning college composition studies until she was 21. Nevertheless, she earned degrees from Penn and the Curtis institute, where she would later teach composing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Chen Yi

From the studio... to the work camps... to the opera... and on to academia and America... Chen Yi is the most prominent woman of a generation of Chinese-born composers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Helen Taaffe Zwilich

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's career has been marked by several firsts: she was the first woman to graduate with a doctorate in composition from Julliard; she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music; and the first female composer to be mentioned in Charles Schulz's iconic comic strip Peanuts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Joan Tower

American Joan Tower did not originally intend to become a composer, but at 18 she wrote a piece for a college class and immediately thought, "I can do better"--- and, as she said in 2018, "for the next 60 years, I tried to do better." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Thea Musgrave

Scottish composer Thea Musgrave once had a dream in which a single clarinet player led the entire orchestra to mutiny--- a dream she realized in her 1967 Concerto for Orchestra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Germaine Taillefesse

Born Germaine Taillefesse... she changed her last name to spite her father, who tried to forbid her a career in music...Germaine Tailleferre was the only female member of the famed generatios known as The Six.n of French composer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Lili and Nadia Boulanger

One composed brilliantly but died early in the 20th century... the other helped create the composers of the rest of the century. Sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger both achieved important firsts for women in music. Born into a Paris Conservatoire family, they showed their talent early: Nadia enrolled at the Conservatoire at the age of nine, and Lili tagged along with her to lessons... she was just four. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Florence Beatrice Price

In 2009 a family began renovating an abandoned house in St. Anne, Illinois, and were astonished to discover piles of paper throughout the home... music manuscripts. The papers, and the house, had once belonged to composer Florence Beatrice Price, the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Rebecca Clark

Imagine composing music that was praised by critics, and then being told only a man could have written it! That happened more than once to English-born composer Rebecca Clarke. Born in 1886, she began her musical life with the violin, eventually became the first female composition student of famed composer and teacher Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Stanford convinced her to switch to the viola, on which she became a virtuoso. She soon had to make use of that skill when she criticized her father for his extramarital affairs... and he abruptly withdrew his financial support for her schooling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composing Women - Amy Cheney Beach

The first successful American woman composer of large-scale works, Amy Cheney could improvise counter-melodies at age two, taught herself to read music at three, and began playing her own works at her first public recitals at seven. From 16 to 18 she impressed Boston audiences with virtuosic performances of Chopin and Mendelssohn concertos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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