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Apparently famous when alive, but it is sad that so few women composers are known or performed.
The proms in London include very few, some years none.
Submitted by Mary Fletcher on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 02:35.
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Amy Beach
Dreaming Play
Recorded on 06/30/2004, uploaded on 05/04/2009
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Dreaming Amy Beach
A child prodigy who played with the Boston Symphony when she was 16, Amy Beach is the doyenne of female American composers and was America's first woman symphonist. Her symphonies and a concerto were performed by major orchestras in her lifetime.
The poignant Dreaming is the third in a set of Four Sketches, op. 15, and is prefaced by an epigraph from Victor Hugo (You call me from the depths of a dream.). Beach wrote the piece in 1892, and it opens with the feeling of a dream pulling us, hushed, hypnotic, at the edge of awareness. The dream is represented by exotic harmonies, murmuring accompanimental figurations, and smooth, glassy lines.
Michelle Kim
More music by Amy Beach
Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
I Send My Heart Up to Thee, from Three Browning Songs
Ah, Love, But a Day, from Three Browning Songs
The Year’s at the Spring, from Three Browning Songs
Performances by same musician(s)
Three Preludes
Souvenirs de Porto Rico
Gargoyles, Op. 29
Souvenirs d’Andalousie
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