Women In Music

Fearless Memory: Our First Three Decades With Lera Auerbach, Composer, Pianist, Poet, Artist

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 17, 2019

One of the things that consistently blows my students' minds is the fact that there are still classical composers living today. After being taken through...

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Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 21, 2019

In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...

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One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 7, 2019

1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tail on Reconstruction ...

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The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 24, 2019

In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...

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Trapped in a Velvet Prison: The Private Musical Genius of Fanny Mendelssohn

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 10, 2019

Mendelssohn.Thirty years ago, that name carried two associations: as the surname of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher who brought a modernized Judaism int...

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Barbara Strozzi, Master Of The 17th Century Love Song

Dale DeBakcsyJune 19, 2019

Between the monophonic spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and the lush, human lyricism of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) there lie five centuries, a Renaissance,...

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A Voice Across 900 Years: Hildegard Of Bingen, Europe’s First Composer

Dale DeBakcsyJune 5, 2019

Author's note: In the United States, of the 537 conductors registered with the League of American Orchestras, only 60 (or 11%) are women, and of the 24 largest...

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