@ProfKateLoder

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Joined October 2023
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The International Alliance for Women in Music is pleased to announce the 2024 cycle for the Pauline Alderman Awards for outstanding scholarship on women in music. Works published during the calendar years 2022 and 2023 will be considered for cash prizes.
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Ursula Vaughan Willimas published seven collections of poems, wrote three novels and the libretti for two operas, as well as contributing words to nine of her husband's major works. Find out more about her life and work here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.or…
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The AGO Task Force for Gender Equity has a competition for women to submit new and unpublished organ compositions to celebrate Woman Composer Sunday on 9 March 2025. Details are at this link agohq.org/woman-composer-sun… and in the image.
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If you're a conductor, singer, committee member or all of those, don't miss our repertoire day with @amybebbs1 on 5 Oct; a great opportunity to discover music old & new written by women. With @OUPMusic & @Multitudeofvoyc. £35/£15 students bit.ly/3W5XI5L @MakingMusic_UK
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Maram’s stunning piano performance in Kabul. Under the Taliban, music is now illegal. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music empowered talents like her, but one of the Taliban's first moves was to ban the school.
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#OnThisDay in 1773, Phillis Wheatley became the first female African American published poet with the publishing of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. An original copy of her work, signed by Wheatley, is in our collection and on display. 📖: bit.ly/3EiEjoE
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Dora #Pejačević deserves a monument for her music. ❤️ This #CPO CD presents her Symphony op.41 of excellent thematic invention and characterized by a powerful and heroic finale and the Phantasie Concertante op.48. This piece is very interesting because it reminded me of (1/3)
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Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series Doctor Who #WomensArt
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Today's historic find. T. Presser's Compositions for the Pianoforte by Woman Composers (1919). Works by Ashford, Bilbro, Loeb-Evans, Backer-Gröndahl, Lang, Chretien, Button, Chaminade, Dutton, Crosby, Strickland, Szalit, Andrus, Carreno, Worthington, Cramm, Sewell, & Bohannan.
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For International Youth Day read our blog about 'Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle' #YouthDay womenshistorynetwork.org/you…
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Sophia Duleep Singh, princess and suffragette, was born #OTD 8 August 1876. Sophia was an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union and Women's Tax Resistance League. #WomensHistory
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🔵 Today the jazz singer, Adelaide Hall has been commemorated with a London blue plaque at her home in Kensington, where she lived for 27 years.
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July is Disability Pride Month. Read about “Making women count in disability history” by Dr Coreen McGuire on the blog. #DisabilityPride #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/mak…

Making women count in disability history By Dr Coreen McGuire

In my book, Measuring Difference, numbering normal: setting the standards for disability in the interwar period, I show how specific conceptions of normalcy and disability emerged in the interwar p…

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Excited to perform with @Aoyarzabalpiano Antonio Oyarzabal 22.06 at @StPKbridge Schubert Symphony No. 9 Dora Bright Piano Concerto in A Minor Emilie Mayer Overture to Faust 🎫 trybooking.com/uk/events/lan… #knightsbridge #pianist #pianoconcerto #classicalmusic #femalecomposer
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Described by the Birmingham Post as the ‘queen of Jamaican theatre’, Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919–2006) was a poet, performer, folklorist, writer and educator. Records held in the National Archives shine a light on her early studies. beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk…
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Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Susan Wollenberg and alumnus Professor Matthew Head on the publication of Cambridge Companion to Women Composers music.ox.ac.uk/article/cambr…
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“You’re reluctant to call yourself a composer. Can a girl be that?” An inspiring and deeply personal Letter to a Young Composer by @sfbeamish Produced by @FayLomas1 The Essay 21.45 Thurs 2 May @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ygz…

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Letters to a Young Composer, Sally Beamish

Sally Beamish writes a personal letter to a young composer.

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Sophia Jani and Teresa Allgaier are releasing Six Pieces for Solo Violin on May 17th. The album showcases Jani’s visionary compositions & Allgaier’s unparalleled performance, resulting in a distinct modern classical offering. occhimagazine.com/sophia-jan… via @EricaH67126018 #NewMusic
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If you wanted to know more about our recent book, 'She played and sang: Jane Austen and music' and how it came to be, Vic Sanborn interviewed author @GillianMaryAdel for her blog. Read the interview here: janeaustensworld.com/2024/04… #JaneAusten #authorinterview
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Johanna Senfter was one of the most prolific of all late-Romantic female composers, writing at least 150 works, but she's all but disappeared from our history books. @KateMolleson & @NatashaLoges excavate her story in Composer of the Week, noon @BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wqs…
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