Women of Note
Lynne Rogers (voice)
Julie Waring (piano)
Programme:
O Virtus Sapientiae; Hildegard Von Bingen 1098- 1179
Per La Piu Vaga e Bella (Fernando Saracinelli); Francesca Caccini 1587- c. 1637
Spesso Per Entro Al Petto; Barbara Strozzi c.1619- 1664
O Death, Rock Me Asleep; Anon. attrib. Anne Boleyn 1501/ 07- 1536 (Arr. Warlock)
Morgenstándchen (Joseph Von Eichendorff); Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel 1805- 1847
Ihr Bildnis (Heinrich Heine); Clara Schumann 1819- 1896
Ah Love But A Day (Robert Browning); Amy Chaney Beach 1867- 1944
Crabbed Age and Youth (Shakespeare); Maude Valerie White 1855- 1937
Into the Night; Clara Edwards 1880- 1974
Villanelle (F.van der Elst trans. Alice Mattullah); Eva Dell’Aqua 1856- 1930
Everywhere I Look (Dena Tempest); Molly Carew 1886- 1953
Wiegala; Ilse Weber 1903- 1944
Ich Wandre Durch Theresienstadt; Ilse Weber 1903- 1944
The Man- in- the- Mune (Maurice Lindsey); Thea Musgrvae 1928- present
Willie Wabster (Maurice Lindsey); Thea Musgrvae 1928- present
The Loom; Trad. arr. Grace Williams 1906- 1977
Ophelia’s Song (Shakespeare); Elizabeth Maconchy 1907- 1994
Stop All the Clocks (W H Auden); Betty Roe 1930- present
A Bay In Anglesey (John Betjeman); Madelaine Dring 1923- 1977
The Summer Is Coming (Bryan Guinness); Sasha Johnson Manning 1963- present
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost); Sasha Johnson Manning 1963- present
There are Fairies At the Bottom of Our Garden (Rose Fyleman); Liza Lehmann 1862- 1918
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This concert, taking place on International Women’s Day, aims to explore the role of women in classical composition. It begins from the point of female invisibility with Hildegard Von Bingen and travels through Italy and Germany via women who had famous fathers or husbands who encouraged their writing. We pause briefly with Anne Boleyn and explore the idea of anonymity before travelling into the 20th century where women become more autonomous and able to compose and support themselves without male patronage. We briefly visit America and finish the first half in Victorian Britain.
The second half of the concert begins with the tragic story of Ilse Weber who wrote and sang music for the children of Thierenstadt concentration camp, before exploring 20th century composers of the British Isles Thea Musgrave, Betty Roe, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams. We finish right up to date with Sasha Johnson Manning, composer of the Manchester carols.
The performance involves interspersing songs with cultural information about the composers and the era in which they were writing.
