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2021-03-04 07:31:44
Forgotten Voices: SWAP’ra joins forces with Hera and UK conservatoires to showcase music by women composers for International Women's Day
For International Women's Day (8 March 2021), SWAP’ra (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera) will be celebrating with an on-line festival showcasing female composers with Forgotten Voices: Rediscovering female composers of the past with the voices of the future. SWAP’ra is working with the opera company Hera to curate a programme shedding light on the rich variety of music which has so far been underperformed. Running from 6 to 13 March 2021, the festival will provide a platform for singers and pianists from the UK's conservatoires to perform music by female composers, some of which has never been recorded before. The Royal Welsh Conservatoire of Music and Dance (the only UK conservatoire to have students on campus) will kick things off at 4pm on 6 March 2021 with a concert with music by Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1926), Elaine Hughes-Jones (born 1927), Laura Netzel (1838-1927), and Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998), along […]
2020-11-07 01:16:00
WPR Celebrates The Music Of William Grant Still: Pioneering African American Composer Broke Many Barriers
William Grant Still (1895-1978) (Maud Cuney-Hare, Public Domain) Wisconsin Public Radio November 5, 2020 By WPR Music Staff This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of American composer William Grant Still, and WPR will be featuring a wide range of his works during our music programs the week of Nov. 9, including our weekday classical shows between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi in 1895, briefly worked on a medical degree, then went to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He also joined W.C. Handy’s pioneering jazz band in 1916 and later went to Harlem to continue working with him after serving in World War I. Still’s interests were wide and included lessons from the modernist French composer Edgar Varese. These influences can be heard in Still’s music, but don’t overshadow his distinct and unique voice. […]
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