Tag: 21st century
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Happy AANHPI Heritage Month! At the end of last year, I went through the music in the Virtuosa Flute Solos database with the goal of including a wider representation of women composers from underestimated demographics in the section on living composers. This month, I want to take a moment to share some of the highlights…
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Happy Women’s History Month! As has become a March tradition in my corner of the internet, it’s time for our annual Women Composers Bingo! Here in the US, this year’s theme from the National Women’s History Alliance is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” (Not to be confused with the UN theme for…
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February snuck up on me again… but this is actually good timing, since I wanted to highlight a few pieces I’ve included in my recent update to Virtuosa Flute Solos. Over the past several months, I came across a few flute solos from the 1950s-1980s that were only published relatively recently – and I wanted…
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If I had a dollar for every time I attended a concert featuring music written by women or a workshop on female composers where the presenter said something along the lines of “I don’t understand why women’s compositions aren’t performed more often, there’s a lot of really great music here!” … I wouldn’t have a…
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Happy Pride!! 🏳️🌈 Most of the resources for LGBTQ+ representation in classical music that I’ve seen center the biographies and works of queer composers. And while that visibility is great, this reminds me of the “add women and stir” approach to incorporating women into historical narratives – a method that’s at least 50 years out…
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If you just scrolled through the Virtuosa Flute Solos database and feel overwhelmed… now what?? It’s a lot of information if you’re new to flute music by women composers – so here’s a brief rundown of some suggestions for where to start and a few programming tips, to help make sure this database doesn’t become…
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Virtuosa Flute Solos is great for finding flute solos by historical women composers, but what if you’re looking for chamber music or something more modern?? While those were outside the scope of my research for this particular project, there are many other educators and organizations with a variety of awesome resources. Check out the list…
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Happy February!! In the spirit of the month, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some resources for flute music by Black composers and performers that I’ve come across over the past several years. I’m always in full support of anything that amplifies voices from outside the narrow canon of Western classical music that’s…