tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post886224141747236535..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: More (or Less) About Music by WomenElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-29544129413623191102017-02-27T21:29:55.574-06:002017-02-27T21:29:55.574-06:00I am investigating ways to improve the performance...I am investigating ways to improve the performance and study of Art Song by women composers. As a pilot project, I have posted a survey of the intellectual and emotional impact of this genre on singers. <br /><br />I will provide a link to the [anonymous] survey below. Participation is open to anyone who is at least 18 years old and who has sung or studied an Art Song by a woman composer.<br /><br />Mary Baldwin Art Song Survey 1: https://marybaldwin.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eLhhRNp3MBHDDiR<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02872395612931117818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-4207809106865602652009-03-31T21:17:00.000-05:002009-03-31T21:17:00.000-05:00I SO wish she would publish Missionaries - it's on...I SO wish she would publish Missionaries - it's one of the most profound creative works of ANY kind I've ever experienced.<BR/><BR/>Bible Women IS available on CD out there - not super-easy to find, but possible, and well worth the search effort. <BR/><BR/>Swados has also written about teaching theater to young people and about composing, if I'm not mistaken; I am unfamiliar with her writings.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09208990104460795917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-66483533845564828692009-03-31T21:06:00.000-05:002009-03-31T21:06:00.000-05:00Boy does Swados' work look interesting! Thank you...Boy does <A HREF="http://www.lizswados.com/index.html" REL="nofollow">Swados'</A> work look interesting! Thank you for the "introduction."Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-34138638504291784162009-03-31T20:56:00.000-05:002009-03-31T20:56:00.000-05:00I LOVE the music of Madeleine Dring! Lots of love...I LOVE the music of Madeleine Dring! Lots of lovely oboe!<BR/><BR/>Do you know the work of composer Elizabeth Swados? She has written two works in particular that I deeply admire: Bible Women, a beautiful song cycle, and Missionaries, a musical play about four Christian women who were slaughtered in El Salvador. I attended a concert version of the latter in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and was privileged to hear Ms. Swados reflect on the process of composing Missionaries - how she had to learn about Latin American liturgical/folk music in addition to the more "traditional" sounds of Western Catholic liturgy, as well as try to understand, as Jewish person, the relationship these women had with their faith and what would bring them to such a fate in a faraway corner of the world. What a POWERFUL experience. We need more voices and minds like hers (and yours!).T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09208990104460795917noreply@blogger.com