This program, first broadcast on March 9, 2025, celebrates Women’s History Month with a survey of women composers, beginning with a song from the Mother Of Us All, Hildegard von Bingen. Twentieth-century modernism is represented by choral music from Lili Boulanger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, piano music by Johanna M. Beyer and Vivian Fine, an orchestral score by Florence Price, and a song cycle for soprano and orchestra by Rhian Samuel. The postmodern works of the 20th century are an electronic classic by Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk singing at the piano, a graphic score by Anne LeBaron, Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument, and Beata Moon playing her piano music.
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
Ave, generosa (12th century)
LILI BOULANGER
Psalm 24 (1916)
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Three Chants for Women’s Voices (1930)
JOHANNA M. BEYER
Gebrauchs-Musik (1934)
FLORENCE PRICE
The Oak (1943)
VIVIAN FINE
Sinfonia and Fugato for Solo Piano (1963)
PAULINE OLIVEROS
Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
MEREDITH MONK
Do You Be (1970)
ANNE LEBARON
Concerto for Active Frogs (1975)
RHIAN SAMUEL
Clytemnestra (1994)
ELLEN FULLMAN
“Harmonic Cross Sweep – Overtone Series of C Chord Progression” (1990s)
BEATA MOON
Nursery (1996)
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For more on Anne LeBaron and Pauline Oliveros, see:
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NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 