Audio / Video

Focus on Women Composers

  • 01:08:05

Description

Program exploring the American college music environment in which many composers find themselves and the impact this largely male-dominated world has had on women composers. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Chamber Concerto No. 2, Thea Musgrave; 3. continuity; 4. Paean, Vivian Fine; 5. continuity; 6. Outline, Pauline Oliveros; 7. reading of Judith Rosen's response to the question "Why Haven't Women Become Great Composers?" (1973), then outro. Master by Joan Medlin. Note: Archives copy is an aircheck that contains the first eight minutes of the following program, "Ahora.".

Details

Title

Focus on Women Composers

Creator

Medlin, Joan. engineer.

Kosanovic, Virginia. producer.

Creator

Pacifica Radio Archive.

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.).

Published

Los Angeles :, Pacifica Radio Archives,, 1977.

Extent

1 online resource.

Repository

Pacifica Radio Archives.

Reproduction Note

Electronic reproduction.

Grant Information

Sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project.

Usage Statement

RESTRICTED.

Tracks

PRA_NHPRC1_AZ1132_00_031_00_FULL.mp3 01:08:05

Linked Resources

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