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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 22nd January 2019

January 22, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments Chopin, classical music, contemporary classical, elena kats chermin, feminism, glinka, kapralova, mazurka, muses trio, music, music radio, nadia boulanger, piano trio, polonaise, radio, rae howell, romantic classical, vaughan williams

This week dreamy music from Romantic piano composer Maria Szymanowska along with friends Field, Glinka