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Focus on Women Composers: A selection of tapes collected recently (Episode 43)

A program featuring tapes of women composers recently collected by Susan Sailow. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Crystal Dancer, Janet Cuniberti; 2. continuity; 3. String Quartet, Ruth Schonthal-Seckel; 4. continuity; 5. Electronic Music for Belly Dancers, Linda Silbert; 6. continuity; 7. Mr. Brown's Wife, Lucy Garber; 8. Let's Get Away, Lucy Garber. Engineered by Susan Sailow.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cuniberti, Janet, Schonthal, Ruth, Silbert, Linda American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.43
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
Focus on Women Composers: Contemporary Collage (Episode 55)

A program focusing on contemporary collage works by women composers. Produced and master by April McMahon. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Trio Sonata no. 4, "Sheep", Carolyn Hawley; 3. continuity; 4. Torero, Beth Anderson; 5. continuity; 6. Quia Amore Langueo, Ophelia, Janet Danielson; 7. continuity; 8. Eye, Suzanne Ciani; 9. continuity; 10. Six Ebauches, Jacqueline Fontyn; 11. outro. Engineered by Susan Kernes.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hawley, Carolyn Bowen, 1934-, Anderson, Beth, 1950-, Danielson, Janet, Ciani, Suzanne., Fontyn, Jacqueline American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.55
Focus on Women Composers: Contemporary Women Composers (Episode 59)

The last in a series of four programs surveying compositions by women from the Renaissance to the present day, covering music composed by women since 1950. Produced and presented by Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Homunculus c.f. for ten percussionists, Julia Perry; 2. intro/continuity; 3. Stray Birds, Ursula Mamlok; 4. continuity; 5. Horn Concerto, Thea Musgrave; 6. continuity/outro; Homunculus c.f. for ten percussionists, Julia Perry (included here in its entirety). Engineered by Susan Sailow.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Perry, Julia, 1924-1979, Mamlok, Ursula, Musgrave, Thea American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.59
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
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: 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, Miriam Gideon. Ends with a reading from Aaron Copland's essay "The Creative Mind and the Interpretive Mind." Outro, theme music. Master by Joan Medlin.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982, Tailleferre, Germaine., Gideon, Miriam, 1906-1996 American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.05
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, C.F. for 10 percussionists, Julia Perry; 10. continuity; 11. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska; 12. outro/continuity; 13. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska (excerpt). Self-contained. Engineered by Susan Sailow and April McMahon.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ptaszyńska, Marta, Kolb, Barbara, Perry, Julia, 1924-1979 American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.23
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 (faded down); 2. continuity; 3. selections from La liberazione di Ruggiero, Francesca Caccini; 4. continuity; 5. O Death Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 6. continuity; 7. Harpischord Suite No. 2 in G, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre; 8. continuity; 9. selection from Erwin and Elmire, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar; 10. continuity; 11. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Presented by April McMahon, Virginia Kosanovic, and Fleur Helsingor. Master by Joan Medlin.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilhelmine, Margravine, consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth, 1709-1758, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640, Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739-1807 American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women's history AZ1132.03
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 Lady's Heart, Ellen McIlwaine; 8. I Got the Rhythm, Virginia Rubino of BeBe K'Roche; 9. World Turning, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham; 10. continuity; 11. I Can Hear Music, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector; 12. Mumbo, Linda and Paul McCartney; 13. Tutti Frutti, Dorothy LaBostrie and "Little" Richard Penniman; 14. outro; 15. White Bird, Linda LaFlamme and David LaFlamme. Master by Joan Medlin.

Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Nicks, Stevie, Dunlop, Sara Ellen, 1936-1978, Millington, June., Millington, Jean, Joplin, Janis, McIlwaine, Ellen, Rubino, Virginia, McVie, Christine, Greenwich, Ellie, McCartney, Linda, LaBostrie, Dorothy, 1928-2007, Laflamme, Linda American Women -- Music and musicians AZ1132.27
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