August 10, 2017
When I came across this treasure trove, conveniently offered to you in the link below, I was embarrassed to the point of a slightly purplish face. Well, maybe it was the heat. In any case: look at the list of the top 35 women composers in classical music of the 20th and 21st century.
How many did I know? Hint: I’m not telling since the number is so embarrassingly small.
And yet, such gems among them who I had never heard of, much less heard their compositions. But do I really want to click through all those Youtube samples they offer?
Which brings me to the question of the day:
Where, oh where, does one find the kind of generous, technically astute person who generates a playlist that shuffles these women composers on my computer?
One of the chosen was Lera Auerbach. Here’s her clip, Requiem for Icarus, which gives me the occasion to post some of the Icarus series pictures previously shown at Blackfish Gallery.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyp3YwUYlK8
Steve Tilden
Zeus, Friderike, I played Auerbach’s Requiem for Icarus, and fear coursed through my body. I kept thinking of Trump/Kim, close we all are to horror; we will go down to our death via immature men (would even Palin wander down this road?) who, like Icarus, ignore the warnings and, exhilarated with power, fly too close to the sun?