Seizure
March 14 , 2001
Sarah Carsey provided valuable research, including a homemade CD of classical music downloaded off Napster. Yep, Hildegard von Bingen is on Napster. Thanks to Mark Enslin for providing from his personal library twice as much music as I would otherwise have had. Thanks to Susan for the works of Parenti and (Pamela) Z.
This show was not a historical overview, and focused largely on female composers who had studied at the University of Illinois. We played Leslie Olson, Carla Scaletti, Elaine Barkin, Mary Lee Roberts, Linda Antas, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Laetitia deCompiegne Sonami, Libby Larsen, some older (Renaissance) pieces provided by Sarah, and others.
I kept saying the show was "classical music by female composers," and let the listener decide whether that made sense. What, for lack of a more precise term, I call "academic music," would seem to be at least as male-dominated as other art forms or academic disciplines.