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The Daffodil Perspective 22nd November 2019

November 22, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments alla pavlova, cecile chaminade, chaminade, clara 200, clara schumann, classical music, coming up for air, dame ethel, dame ethel smyth, ethel smyth, female composers women composer, fete galante, gender balance classical music, gender equality, gender equality classical music, gender equality in classical music, kathryn williams, nina whiteman, odaline de la martinez, sharon su, sharon su clara

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The Daffodil Perspective 6th May 2019

May 6, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments alice farnham, alicia needham, allmanna sangen, andrea tarrodi, balance problems, camelopardalis, classical music, contemporary classical music, dahlkvist quartet, dB productions, ethel smyth, female composer, female composers, femina moderna, feminism, francesco tristano, gender equality, Illuminate, illuminate women's music, kantos chamber choir, kesia decote, keyna wilkins, lost women of music, march of the women, morfydd owen, music, nico muhly, orbits and riffs, piano circle songs, presto, suffrage sinfonia, susan spain dunk, tarrodi, tarrodi orchestral works, women composer, women composers, women in classical music, women in music, ymusic

The Daffodil Perspective is 6 months old. 6 months of celebrating women composers and

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What is ‘greatness’ in classical music?

February 23, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 6 Comments amy beach, barbara strozzi, boulanger, chicago symphony orchestra, classical music, dame elizabeth maconchy, elisabeth lutyens, elizabeth maconchy, emilie mayer, ethel smyth, female composers, feminism, feminist, florence price, gender balance, gender bias, gender equality, great composers, kapralova, louise farrenc, lutyens, Marianna Martines, misogny, music, nadia boulanger, prejudice, racism, sexism, Suffrage, symphony, women composers

Everyone’s got this image of all the ‘great’ composers. They’re all dead white men. British

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The Daffodil Perspective 12th February 2019

February 13, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments amy beach, cambridge female composers festival, chandos, clara schumann, classical music, contemporary classical, contemporary corner, court composer, dame ethel smyth, ethel smyth, female composers, feminism, feminist, francesca caccini, frescobaldi, gender balance, gender equality, gender equity, harlem renaissance, jacopo peri, joanna ward, kurt weill, langston hughes, marco da gagliano, medici, medici court, music of the medici court, opera, sexism, tasmin little, women composers

This show we’re going back to the Baroque with Francesca Caccini, in 1625 she became

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What’s the point? A brief look at one of the problems faced to get women composers noticed.

February 10, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 1 Comment amy beach, chandos, chandos records, clara schumann, Classical, classical music, dame ethel smyth, discrimination, diversity, equality, ethel smyth, female composers, feminism, feminist, gender balance, gender bias, gender equality, gender equity, misogyny, music, new album, new releases, patriarchy, prestoclassical, Schumann, sexism, sexist, tasmin little, violin, violin sonata, women composers

Say you’re a world famous violinist. There’s a great violin piece you’ve heard by a

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17 Great Women Composers You Need to Know.

November 30, 2018October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments alice mary smith, amy beach, Bach, barbara strozzi, Beethoven, Brahms, chen yi, chinese music, Chopin, classical music, Composers, czech music, Debussy, dora pejacevic, emilie mayer, ethel smyth, florence price, gender bias, germaine tailleferre, Handel, Haydn, ina boyle, japanese music, Judith Weir, kapralova, lontano records, maria szymanowska, Marianna Martines, master of the queen's music, Michiru Oshima, Monteverdi, Mozart, music, new york times, nina makarova, odaline de la martinez, patriarchy, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Verdi, wagner, women composers, women in music

Chief t**t, I’m sorry chief classical music critic at the New York Times Anthony Tommasini

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Gender parity is for life, not just for Christmas

November 23, 2018October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments classical music, Donne, English Symphony Orchestra, ethel smyth, female composers, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender parity, Illuminate, Kings Place, music, Scordatura, Suffrage, Trinity Laban, Venus Blazing, Venus Unwrapped, women composers, women in music

This is a message for all those orchestras out there playing one concert of women

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The Daffodil Perspective is a revolutionary new radio show based in London, UK, rewriting classical music history with a more accurate and gender balanced account.

The Daffodil Perspective is showing how women fit into our current version of classical music history and exploring the stories of these women, their music and monumental achievements. Each episode features at least 50% of pieces and airtime by women composers.

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