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Skriven 2014-09-06 21:18:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: women in the arts 893
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-03-14  12:01 <=-

 NB>> I think we are actually pretty close to agreement here, but I keep
 NB>> coming back to Clara, who was able to champion both her husband's
 NB>> works and also their friend Johannes'...  Maybe it's revisionist
 NB>> teaching I've been exposed to, but there's still something there...  :)

 ML> Still, she had to submerge her own art to that of her
 ML> various eccentric friends.

Perhaps.  :)  In any case, somehow or other, a lot of music by female
composers managed to be saved and to be rediscovered in this era... :) 
A couple of seasons ago, there was something by a woman composer
programmed for each of the regular RPO concerts, most were relatively
major works, some by modern women, some by some all-but-forgotten ones
of times past... 
 
 NB>>> 4-hand duets for himself and his sister, I understood...  Dunno if
 NB>>> she ever played them as an adult, though...
 ML>> According to biographical articles in Grove and elsewhere,
 ML>> she didn't play anything as an adult (in public, anyhow).
 NB>> Of course the biographical material, written later, could have had its
 NB>> own bias...  
 ML> Possibly, but there's only so much data that we have.
 ML> Reconstructed history is a pitfall waiting to happen.
 
True... one can speculate, but there's often no way to really find
out... short of lucking into some treasure trove of data hiding in some
repository or other...  ;)

 ML> As I think I mentioned, the Boulanger sisters, particularly
 ML> Nadia, were the first full-fledged career women with an
 ML> impact that their talents merited. And even then, Nadia's
 ML> music isn't emphasized, it's her sizable and varied stable
 ML> of students.

True... she did also champion her sister's work, after Lily's untimely
demise... Nadia's stable included just about every major composer of
that time, too...  I keep hearing reference to her influence on them on
Bill McGloughlin's Exploring Music program...  :)
 
 NB>> Who'da thought a woman could describe a Heathcliff so well...  ;)
 ML> Nobody ever denied women the power of observation. 
 
Just their ability to write it down well...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... I'm always getting into a pickle, not that I relish it

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