"Fiery Cosmic Eggs and Sŷnthéšīśęrs": Female Composers

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Millennial, Performing Arts, Classical Music, Composers, Music, Classical, Funny, Arts, Comedy

4.8 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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DID YOU KNOW THAT SOMETIMES WOMEN ALSO WRITE MUSIC AND IT'S EXCELLENT? WELL OK THEN THAT'S GREAT I WAS JUST CHECKING DON'T GIVE ME YOUR SASS. This episode we talk about the female of the species writing some absolute classical bangers over the past 1000 years. Enjoy! Music Featured in this Episode: "Ancient Suite" - Hildegarde von Bingen "Piano Sonata in G Minor: IV. Finale: Presto-Allegro moderato e con espressione" - Fanny Mendelsohhn "String Quartet: I. Modere" - Germaine Tailleferre "Garden Secret I" - Kaija Saariaho ***Follow us on Twitter (@thatclassical) and on Instagram (@thatclassicalinsta) for some top notch social media entertainment. We promise it won't just be jokes about Mozart. N.B. we can make no promises it won't just be jokes about Mozart.***

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 12 of that
0:05.0	episode 12 of that classical podcast this time female composers.
0:10.0	Hello! and do your hands on the main.
0:15.0	Hello! Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm Chris Bland.
0:17.0	And I'm Kelly Harlock, and you are listening to that classical podcast.
0:22.0	Yes, you are! Yet again, hopefully. It was your first time welcome. Today it's
0:26.3	episode 12 and we are going to be talking about female composers and if you've
0:31.5	been listening to us and following us on our journey you
0:35.2	will know that we haven't really talked about them we haven't really included we've
0:39.6	included one woman in 11 episodes yeah otherwise it's just been old white.
0:43.7	And yeah, old dead white dudes.
0:45.6	Some haven't still been alive.
0:47.4	You know what?
0:48.0	We love the music of those old dead white dudes,
0:50.0	but we also...
0:51.0	They're not the only people who exist in the world.
0:52.6	Chris, why don't you tell us a bit about why we don't hear a lot about women composers?
0:57.6	Well, yeah, so the reason we haven't touched on loads of them yet is because just numerically, there are because I mean I don't if you know
1:05.2	this Kelly but historically women didn't really get that much of a fair shape
1:08.6	compared to men in lots of. Yeah and so in researching this
1:13.7	episodes I was obviously looking up a bunch of awesome different composers who
1:18.2	happened to women and the sentence I read most often was very little of their music still remains.
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