Episode 197: Facing the Music

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this show we meet three musicians, all performers and teachers, and get a sense of how much the traditional world of classical music is changing. We also hear some of their playing.

Lydia Brown, now a professor of collaborative piano at Juilliard, began her career mentored by several women who worked to established her profession. Yet despite this female influence, she says she’s had to fight to achieve the same success as a male pianist. Renate Rohlfing was one of Lydia’s students. Now in her late thirties, she has had a successful career, traveling far and wide to play. But it took her a long time to realize that performing does not have to mean sticking to old expectations of what a woman ‘should’ look like on stage. French horn player Christine Stinchi is working on her doctorate at Rutgers University. She performs in pants, and has had plenty of women mentors in what was for so long a male field. She sees a hopeful future for women in brass.

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0:44.7	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.
0:46.0	I'm Ashley Miltight.
0:54.4	This time, three women in classical music on inhabiting what has been a very traditional world.
1:01.6	In a way, a female persona is much more vividly felt, a physical persona.
1:07.1	And I think that men don't have that same kind of thing, but then when we're in a position where we're potentially losing a job over something like that, those things start to
1:11.0	come into play. I remember I won second place. The feedback from the head judge was that I shouldn't
1:21.0	have worn slacks. I remember reading those comments and I was so upset because he didn't say anything
1:32.3	about the actual playing. I try to really focus on that hope that the diversity and the future of
1:43.1	horn will be balanced.
1:45.5	And I hope that for all instruments, of course.
1:49.7	A Life in Music. Coming up on The Broad Experience.
2:22.1	Thank you. If you've been to a classical concert, you've probably seen plenty of women in the orchestra.
2:29.6	They're certainly there, even if it's still rare to see a woman conductor or to hear a piece of music composed by a woman.
2:37.1	Things are improving for sure, but as with so much about women's work, a lot of the issues lie beneath the surface.
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