... After four works written or enabled by actual women, we have arrived at the finale: Alexander Rosenblatt’s Carmen Fantasy. The imaginary Carmen at the center of Bizet’s iconic opera is an inspiration, a woman who unabashedly thumbs her nose at her patriarchal surroundings. Rosenblatt’s tribute to her and the music she inspired is infused with jazzy and popular harmonies and rhythms of the present, bringing Carmen into a world that increasingly tries to be worthy of her.
Women make up roughly half of the global population but are underrepresented as composers on the concert stage. I respond by programming works by women on nearly every recital I play, including this one. However, it did not occur to me until after programming that even the works by men on this program were inspired and enabled by women. Even when their names have not sold the scores and recordings, women have always been involved in music and have always deserved credit, in part or in whole, for its creation.Notes by Timothy Hagen
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Alexander Rosenblat
Carmen Fantasy (after Bizet) Play
Recorded on 11/20/2019, uploaded on 04/24/2020
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... After four works written or enabled by actual women, we have arrived at the finale: Alexander Rosenblatt’s Carmen Fantasy. The imaginary Carmen at the center of Bizet’s iconic opera is an inspiration, a woman who unabashedly thumbs her nose at her patriarchal surroundings. Rosenblatt’s tribute to her and the music she inspired is infused with jazzy and popular harmonies and rhythms of the present, bringing Carmen into a world that increasingly tries to be worthy of her.
Women make up roughly half of the global population but are underrepresented as composers on the concert stage. I respond by programming works by women on nearly every recital I play, including this one. However, it did not occur to me until after programming that even the works by men on this program were inspired and enabled by women. Even when their names have not sold the scores and recordings, women have always been involved in music and have always deserved credit, in part or in whole, for its creation. Notes by Timothy Hagen
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