Women composers.

  • Focus on Women Composers: Percussion music (Episode 23)

    Program highlighting the work of women percussionists. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Contents: 1. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska (excerpt); 2. intro/continuity; 3. Cadenza for flute and percussion, Marta Ptaszyńska; 4. continuity; 5. Solitaire for piano, vibraphone and tape, Barbara Kolb; 6. continuity; 7. Stress for percussion and tape, Marta Ptaszyńska; 8. continuity; 9. Homunculus,…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Some Women in Rock (Episode 27)

    A program highlighting women composers in the field of rock music. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Rhiannon, Stevie Nicks; 2. intro; 3. Children of Darkness, Sara Ellen Dunlop; 4. You’re the One, Jean and June Millington of Fanny; 5. One Good Man, Janis Joplin; 6. continuity; 7. The Secret in This…

  • Focus on Women Composers Overview, May 8, 1976 (Episode 1)

    Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Presented by Renee Roatcap, April McMahon, Elizabeth Pizer, Susan Sailow, and Fleur Helsingor. Contents: 1. continuity; 2. O Death, Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 3. continuity; 4. Impromptu, Clara Wieck-Schumann; 5. continuity; 6. Quatuor, Germaine Tailleferre; 7. continuity; 8. Vieille Prière Bouddhique, Lili Boulanger; 9. continuity; 10.…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Neo-Romantic Through 12 Tone, June 19, 1976 (Episode 5)

    Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Presented by Renee Roatcap, Elizabeth Pizer, and Virginia Kosanovic. Self contained. Contents: begins with theme music, an excerpt from The seasons of time, Miriam Gideon, followed by program intro. 1. Gift of the Magi, Rebekah Harkness; 2. Sonata for Harp, Germaine Tailleferre; 3. The Seasons of Time,…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Renaissance through late Baroque, June 5, 1976 (Episode 3)

    The first in a series of four episodes of “Focus on Women Composers” providing a historical survey of various musical periods and styles from the Renaissance to the present. This episode covers women composers from the Renaissance through the late Baroque (1500-1750). Contents: 1. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Music to soothe and refresh, July 10, 1976 (Episode 7)

    Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Presented by Susan Sailow, and Fleur Helsingor. Produced by Susan Sailow. Self contained. Contents: 1. Conch Shell: The Sea at Sunset, Joanna Brouk; 2. continuity; 3. The Creative, Joanna Brouk; 4. continuity; 5. A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley, arranged by Katrina Krimsky; 6. continuity;…

  • Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin

    This series is “Portraits of women composers,” produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women’s Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr. Ora Williams, professor at Cal State Long Beach who has published American Black Women in the Arts and…

  • Women composers: Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates

    Jeannie Pool interviews and plays music of Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates, two American women composers. “Portraits of women composers” was produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women’s Department at WBAI.

  • A women’s music festival on WBAI (airchecks and production)

    Tape One (Part A): Judy Pasternak starts by introducing the program that just ended, “Women and the history of music,” edited tapes from the “Women in the arts: composers” panel held on May 2, 1980, at CUNY. This was the first part of the Women’s music day at WBAI. Next is Jeannie Poole, the author…

  • International women’s day (1978) music (Part 1 only)

    Aircheck of Morning Music on International Women’s Day with Eileen Kane and Manya La Bruja. Features women’s music, particularly women classical composers. Station break at :30 on this reel. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 not currently held by Archives.