And Then She Wrote

A colorful miscellany of music by women composers from past and present.

Though not nearly so numerous or celebrated as their male counterparts, women composers have created a substantial and remarkable repertoire for the pipe organ. Note that Women’s Equality Day is observed on August 26.

Program Broadcast dates:

• August 23, 1999

Featured Organs:

Music played in the program

JEANNE DEMESSIEUX: Etude No. 6 (Octaves) –Peter Fennema (1970 Aeolian-Skinner/National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC) (American Public Media recording 1982)

SUSANNA VAN SOLDT: Dances –Rebecca Clary (1980 Noack/First Methodist Church, Corvalis, OR) American Public Media recording

CLARA WIECK-SCHUMANN: Prelude & Fugue in d, Op. 16, no. 3 –Joachim Dorfmüller (1746 Silbermann/Saint Stephen’s Church, Marmoutier, France) MD&G CD-3330

DAGMAR HOLTZ: Toccata & Fugue –Pamela Decker (1965 Flentrop/St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, WA) Arkay CD-6091

STEFANIA DENBOW: Exaltatio –G. Dene Barnard (1972 Beckerath/First Congregational Church, Columbus, OH) American Public Media recording

DEMESSIEUX: 3 Chorale-preludes (Attende Domine; Rorate Caeli; O Filii) –Graham Barber (1977 Klais/Ingolstadt Münster, Germany) Priory CD-260

PAMELA DECKER: Passacaglia –Pamela Decker (1984 Rieger/Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA) Arkay CD-6083

NADIA BOULANGER: Prelude in F –Thomas Murray (1929 Skinner/Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT) American Public Media recording

JEANNE LANDRY: Orah –Lean-Guy Proulx (1979 Guilbault-Therien/Saint Germain Cathedral, Rimouski, Québec, Canada) REM CD-311078

 

This program was originally issued as #9137 in September 1991.