Musical Herstory 2.0

Week One - Composer and Mother

Our society often expects that women become mothers, but not composers. What is it like for those who are both? What are the challenges faced by women in professional spheres attempting to balance raising children and creating a career?

​Composers we're looking at this week are:

​Allison Loggins-Hull (L)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994)

L = Living Composer

Class Resources

YouTube Playlist
Power Point Notes
Non-YouTube listening:
Through the Deep End: 6 Songs on Motherhood

Sources
Allison Loggins-Hull
allisonloggins.com
Allison Loggins-Hull | Mother Maker
5 Questions to Allison Loggins-Hull | iCareifyoulisten
Composers Now presents IMPACT: Allison Loggins-Hull
Flutronix: Beginnings and Influences

Elizabeth Maconchy
"Sounds and Sweet Airs" - Anna Beer
Celebrating Women Composers - Elizabeth Maconchy | BBC Sounds
In Focus: Dr. Natasha Loges on Elizabeth Maconchy
EVM: A Biography - by Nicola LeFanu
A Composer's Half Century - by Nicola LeFanu
Donne | Women in Music | ELIZABETH MACONCHY
Nicola LeFanu - String Quartet No. 1

Others
Composing and Motherhood - Emily Doolittle | NewMusicBox
Excluded, Penalized, Indebted, Harassed: A Study of Discrimination Against Women in Opera - Zach Finklestein, Danna Lynne Varga, and Hillary LaBonte | Middle Class Artist

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Background photograph by Dale Harder