Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| 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; 7. Grace, Katrina Krimsky; 8. continuity; 9. Epilogue, Katrina Krimsky and Woody Shaw; 10. continuity; 11. reprise of A Rainbow in Curved Air as performed by Krimsky. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brouk, Joanna, 1949, Krimsky, Katrina., Shaw, Woody | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.07 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Choral music, July 17, 1976 (Episode 8) |
Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. This episode focuses on choral music by women composers. Presented by Fleur Helsingor, April McMahon, and Elizabeth Pizer. Produced by Fleur Helsingor. Self contained. Contents: 1. Escalator Over the Hill, Carla Bley (faded down and out); 2. continuity; 3. La Corona, Louise Talma; 4. continuity; 5. Escalator Over the Hill, Carla Bley (excerpts); 6. continuity; 7. Abram in Egypt, Elinor Remick Warren; 8. continuity; 9. Escalator Over the Hill, Carla Bley (faded down and out). Engineers are Joan Medlin and Susan Sailow. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bley, Carla, Talma, Louise, 1906-1996, Warren, Elinor Remick, 1900-1991 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.08 | |
| Los Angeles Symposium of Women Composers, July 24, 1976 (Episode 9) |
Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Tapes from women composers affiliated with the Los Angeles Symposium of Women Artists. Presented by Elizabeth Pizer and Susan Sailow. Produced by Elizabeth Pizer. Self contained. Contents: 1. Sheep in Fog, from Songs to Death, Anna Rubin; 2. continuity; 3. Plainsong, Jan Greenwald; 4. continuity; 5. Ni-Zwei, Lois Vierk; 6. continuity; 7. Flowers, Bells, and Migrations, Susan Palmer; 8. continuity; 9. This Again, Not This Again, Susan Palmer; 10. continuity; 11. Among Windy Spaces, Carey Lovelace; 12. continuity; 13. Sheep in Fog, from Songs to Death, Anna Rubin (reprise). Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rubin, Anna, 1946-, Greenwald, Jan, 1952-, Vierk, Lois V., Palmer, Susan, Lovelace, Carey | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.09 | |
| Composer Grażyna Bacewicz (Episode 13) |
A program exploring the work of Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969). Presented by Susan Sailow and Virginia Kosanovic. Produced by Susan Sailow. Self contained. Contents: 1. Piano Quintet No. 1, movement 1; 2. continuity; 3. Piano Sonata no. II; 4. continuity; 5. Musique pour cordes, trompette et percussion; 6. continuity; 7. Piano Quintet No. 2, movement 2. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bacewicz, Grażyna | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- International women | AZ1132.13 | |
| Elayne Jones, timpanist (Episode 16) |
An interview with timpanist, percussionist and teacher Elayne Jones, a Black woman with Barbadian parents who grew up in Harlem (New York City). She discusses her musical background and upbringing, her years with the New York City Opera, her move to San Francisco and her experiences as a Black woman in the world of opera. Sound quality is muddy for the first five minutes of the recording. Contains excerpts from recordings on which Jones played with the San Francisco Symphony: Prokofiev, excerpts from Romeo & Juliet and Bernstein, excerpts from West Side Story, with Seiji Ozawa conducting. Produced by Renee Roatcap. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jones, Elayne | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ1132.16 | |
| Composer Miriam Gideon (Episode 17) |
Program devoted to the music of American Jewish composer Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996) in honor of Rosh Hashanah. Gideon was Professor of Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at City College, both in New York City. Presented by Virginia Kosanovic and Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents (all pieces by Miriam Gideon): 1. continuity; 2. Rhymes from the Hill; 3. continuity; 4. The Condemned Playground; 5. continuity; 6. Lyric Piece for String Orchestra; 7. continuity; 8. Questions on Nature; 9. continuity; 10. Piano Suite No. 3. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Gideon, Miriam, 1906-1996 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.17 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Electronic composers (Episode 19) |
A program of electronic music composed by women composers. Presented by Virginia Kosanovic, Fleur Helsingor, and Susan Sailow. Produced by Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Evening Harmony, excerpt from Flowers of Evil, Ruth White (faded down and out); 2. continuity; 3. Breath and Sounds, Beatrice Witkin; 4. continuity; 5. Kolyossa, Pril Smiley; 6. continuity; 7. Evening Harmony, excerpt from Flowers of Evil, Ruth White; 8. continuity; 9. Dance of Dawn, Priscilla McLean; 10. continuity; 11. Evening Harmony, excerpt from Flowers of Evil, Ruth White (faded down and out). Master by Susan Sailow. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, White, Ruth S., 1925-, Witkin, Beatrice, Smiley, Pril, 1943-, McLean, Priscilla. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.19 | |
| Lois Ann Thomas / produced by Joan Medlin (Episode 20) |
Feminist folksinger and composer Lois Ann Thomas has long been performing her music for the women's community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two of her performances were recorded live with a grant from the California Arts Council; the first set was recorded at The Bacchanal, a woman's bar in Albany, California in February 1977; the second set, beginning with Woman at the Bottom was recorded at Bishop's Coffee House in Oakland. This program was produced by Joan Medlin. Previously cataloged as AZ0108. |
Thomas, Lois Ann., Folk music., Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.20 | |
| Singer Bessie Smith (Episode 21) |
A program about blues singer Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937), with many examples of her music and readings from three texts about Smith. Presented by Fleur Helsingor and Jane Ayres. Produced by Renee Roatcap. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Gulf Coast Blues; 2. Aggravatin' Papa; 3. Program intro and first reading by Helsingor about Bessie Smith; 4. Fankie Blues; 5. Moonshine Blues; 6. Empty Bed Blues; 7. Put it Right Here; 8. Second reading from Chris Albertson's biography of Smith, "Bessie" (Stein & Day, 1972); 9. Please Help Me; 10. Me and My Gin; 11. Moan You Mourners; 12. Third reading from a Jazz Record magazine article about Bessie Smith from September 1947; Shipwreck Blues; 13. Third reading; 14. Gimme a Pigfoot; 15. Take Me for a Buggy Ride; 16. Down in the Dumps; 17. Program outro. 18. Ballad of Bessie Smith. Master Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Smith, Bessie. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.21 | |
| Composer Megan Roberts (Episode 22) |
Interview with Bay Area-based composer and video artist Megan Roberts. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Includes interview with Megan Roberts. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Applause for Small People, a Pygmatic Function; 3. interview; 4. Support Stockings; 5. interview; 6. I've Had it with that Noise, Boys; 7. interview; 8. Split Pea and Split Not Pea, Robert Consalves and Megan Roberts; 9. interview; 10. Song for My Mother; 11. interview and outro; 12. Applause for Small People, A Pygmatic Function (reprise). Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Roberts, Megan, 1952- | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.22 |