The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
Welcome to week three of our community-driven challenge on women composers! In week two, we heard some wonderful music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Emilie Mayer, Tatiana Stachak, Angela Mair, and Catharina Josepha Pratten. Let's keep it going into week three!
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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Linnemann - Quiet Waters and Satie's Umbrellas
I thought I'd start the week off with a couple more nice pieces by Maria Linnemann. Enjoy!
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Eric Phillips Beautiful Eric. Nice, very romantic pieces. Satie is almost alive in the second one. What would the
theme mean here. I’d like to hear the composer’s idea. Both pieces so nicely interpreted as always. Thank you for these performances. -
joosje Thank you, Joosje. Here is a video of Linnemann playing the piece. If you watch it in YT and read the description, she explains the title briefly - I guess both she and Satie collect(ed) umbrellas.
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Lovely Eric
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I am sorry that I never got the chance to do anything for this member challenge. I just got hung up with my own repertoire and all of the pieces I have to play for the upcoming concert for the NYC Classical Guitar Orchestra.
I thought that this might be interesting. I found this list of pieces by women composers in the booklet for the guitar department at the Manhattan School of Music.
* Emilia Giuliani–Guglielmi Preludes, Op. 46
* Fernande Peyrot–Theme and Variations
* Maria Luisa–Anido Preludos Nostálgicos
* Clarice Assad–Complete Works
* Jana Obrovska–Hommage á Bela Bartók, Due Musici,
* Japanese Pictures
* Ida Presti–Complete Works
* Joan Tower–Clocks, Snow Dreams
* Barbara Kolb–Umbrian Colors, Three Lullabies
* Marilyn Ziffrin–Rhapsody
* Sofia Gubaidulina–Serenade, Toccata
* Katherine Hoover-Canyon Echoes
* Thea Musgrave–Postcard from Morocco, Sonata for Three
* Kaija Saariaho–Adjö
* Caroline Shaw–Anni’s Constant, Come Again (Again)
* Vahda Olcott Bickford–Method for Guitar
* Ursula Mamlok–Five Intermezzi
* Vivian Fine–Canciones y Danzas
* Ester Mägi – Cadenza and Theme, Three Miniatures, Cantus, A due, Processus, Whoops, A tre-
Marc Adler Nice, thank you for this overview, Marc. I do miss Annette Kruisbrink in this listing. Her Homenaje to Andres Segovia is quite a spectacular 4 part piece. I intend to record some of her work, will start with Ahimsa, a piece dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi.
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I must add to this post that it’s still such a struggle for me to record my music and then post the recordings, I deeply admire our friends at this forum who really have the skills to do this and I enjoy so much listening to their recordings…….
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End of the Year Challenge: Finish Strong!
