The Women Composers Challenge Week 4

Welcome to week four of our community-driven challenge on women composers! In week three, we heard some music by Madeleine Cottin, Annette Kruisbrink, Maria Linnemann, and Ida Presti. Hopefully, many of you are saving up what you are working on for this last week, and so we will have many more posts to enjoy!

So, the goal is to choose a piece (or several pieces), and to work on it throughout the course of the challenge, posting videos or audio files of your progress along the way.

Or maybe you are a woman composer, and you would like to take this opportunity to share some of your work with the community.

The challenge will last for four weeks, ending on Saturday, May 3rd. A new discussion thread will be posted for each week of the challenge.

If you are looking for a place to start your search and pique your interest, Candice Mowbray has an excellent website on the subject. Here is a link.

If any beginners would like some suggestions for your playing level, feel free to ask the community by posting a message here.

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  • The last few weeks have kept me away from the guitar, but better late than never! Although I'm working on another work by Maria Linnemann, Eric inspired me with his interpretation of this piece...

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    • Bart Versteeg Thank you Bart! 🙏

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    • Ron Thank you Ron, I think about including the other work in a concert program, but this work is a beautiful introduction to her musical world!

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    • Eric Phillips Thank you Eric, you gave me the push to give it try! 🙏

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    • don Thank you Don, I'm glad you like it! 🙏

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      Blaise Laflamme Beautiful performance (as usual) of a beautiful piece, Blaise. Your tone and phrasing are excellent. Thanks for this performance.

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    • Jack Stewart Thanks Jack, the way the music is written eases its flow!

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    Gubaidulina April Day (Musical Toys #5) update

    This is a much more musical version of this short children's (?!!!) piece by Sofia Gubaidulina. There is much more work to be done, phrasing, tone, timing, etc. However I am pleased with this at this point and I wanted to get better version posted before the next challenge.

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    • Jack Stewart A very interesting piece and it already flows well under your fingers! I found your score further down the thread, is it your last edited version?

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      Blaise Laflamme Thanks Blaise. Yes, I believe that is my current edition. There might be a couple of fingering changes but I don't think so.

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