Posted on 04/11/2018 10:28:07 AM PDT by Skooz
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance has today launched the ‘Venus Blazing’ project, which will ensure that female composers make up more than half its concert programmes in the 2018/19 academic year. Chair of Trinity Laban, Harriet Harman MP, launched the project at a lunchtime concert today in celebration of both International Women’s Day and the 90th birthday of British composer Thea Musgrave.
Harman commented on the power of the project, saying, ‘It will encourage and inspire its students – many of whom will go on to shape the future of the performing arts – to engage with the historic issue of gender imbalance in music by women, and ensure that it does not continue into the next generation.’
Trinity Laban holds more than 60 concerts and opera performances each year across London. The new project will place a key focus on 20th and 21st-century British composers, including composers from within the faculty itself.
Highlights for the coming season include symphonies by Louise Farrenc and Grace Williams performed by the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra, as well as Deidre Gribbin’s Violin Concerto ‘Venus Blazing’, the name now given to the project.
Trinity Laban are also creating an online database of female composers to coincide with this project, expanding its library to allow students access to scores, books and recordings by women composers.
That would narrow the potential scores drastically and leave,perhaps, only Lile Boulanger standing.
I must confess that I heard something by a female composer which was actually decent. I can’t remember her name but the CSO commissioned her work and, for once, it didn’t throw its money down an atonal sewer.
This, along with many other reasons are why the Brits are finished.
Although “The Flaming Hemorrhoids” sounds like a great name for a Grunge band ....
I don’t have a problem with them playing female composed works, it’s just that the predominant great composers were male.
All of her reviews on ratemyprofessor.com start with 'hates men'.
Or {shudder} Dvorak.
Shortest dissertation ever.
May have been Jennifer Higdon. She’s one of the few modern composers of either sex who is listenable.
Thea Musgrave deserves so much more than to be honored with quotas.
Quick someone name a female classical music composer of any worth
Sounds more like “Mars Capitulating”
Do you think in 100 years our progeny will ask themselves “What the HELL were they thinking back then?”
They should breathe air that’s only been breathed by women, too. Don’t inhale any molecules that were breathed by men.
The funny thing is that I listen to all sorts of chorale works and really enjoy all-women groups, all men groups, and mixed choruses. Does this spell the end of that and I’ll eventually be forced to listen only to mixed choruses?
Damn these bastards that RUIN everything in life. How the hell did this happen? The world was always such a nice place until everything got politicized.
I still laughing.
And compare Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Durer, etc etc etc
with
Gramma Moses
The male composers could say they just switched their gender because they now feel like a woman. Problem solved. One minute your male and the next you are female — it’s all just social and mental constructs designed to provide greater freedom. It depends on how you feel that day.
Didn't the guy who did "Switched On Bach" do just that?
Yes, Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos. I don’t know how common it was back then, but I remember reading it happened to David Palmer who use to do string arrangements for the band Jethro Tull.
LoL!
Good grief. There is no honor in academia any more. No merit. No accomplishment. Only entitlement which breeds mediocrity and worse. This is absurd beyond belief and should be vigorously opposed.
Prokofiev and Strauss (Richard)
and Rimsky-Korsakoff...what do wimmen know about Bald Mountains?
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