Dame Ethel Smyth, Detail from a Portrait (1901) by John Singer Sargent

She’s Done It!

…history has been slow to acknowledge the evidence that women composers have accomplished plenty.

Audio Listen to the program

Program Broadcast dates:

Week of July 23, 2007

Links and Resources:

Music played in the program

ERZSEBET SZONYI: 4 Pieces for Organ (Praeambulum-Lullaby-Essay in Harmony- Fugato) –Miriam Zach (1992 Mander/Princeton University Chapel, New Jersey) Minerva CD-131926

SUSANNA VAN SOLDT: 4 Pieces (Myn God/Psalm 23; Preludium; Untitled; Pavane Prymera) –Kimberly Marshall (1987 Rosales/Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, OR) Loft CD-1021

JENNIFER BATE: Homage to 1685 –Jennifer Bate (1919 Willis/Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales) Guild CD-7209

GERMAINNE TAILLEFERRE: Nocturne –Frances Nobert (1998 Glatter-Gotz-Rosales/United Church of Christ, Claremont, CA) Raven CD-550

MARIE-LOUISE GIROD: Fantasie on Sacris Solemnis -Maxime Patel (1965 Beuchet/St. Peter's Cathedral, Angouleme) AOV CD-1

ETHEL SMYTH: Prelude & Fugue on “O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid” –Susan Ferre (1998 Fritts/Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA) Gothic CD-49211

JEANNE DEMESSIEUX: Te Deum, Op. 11 –Jeanne Demessieux (1846 Cavaille-Coll/La Madeleine, Paris) Organ CD-7006

FLORENCE PRICE: A Pleasant Thought –Calvert Johnson (1972 Harrison/Christ Church Episcopal, Savannah, GA) Calcante CD-014

FLORENCE PRICE: 3 Pieces (Adoration; Allegretto; Festal March) –Carlton Russell (1969 Casavant/Wheaton College, Norton, MA) Wheaton CD-1999

JUNE KIRLIN: Song of the Sun –Julia Brown, Barbara Baird (1999 Hochhalter/1st United Methodist Church, Eugene, OR) Hochhalter CD-2004

CLARA WIECK-SCHUMANN: Prelude & Fugue in d, Op. 16, no. 3 –Wolfgang Baumgratz (1894 Sauer/St. Peter's Cathedral, Bremen) IFO CD-040