Music
by Kathy K McClellan
Title
Music
Artist
Kathy K McClellan
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Photograph - Photographs
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Music by Kathy K. McClellan is an image created for Day 65 of the Journal 2022 Challenge.
My journal entries for March make up a series titled "From Letters to Words" using the letters that were created for the February entries. As March is Women's History Month (since 1987), several of my posts this month will be celebrating women in history.
Today, March 6th, we have several women to thank for their historic contributions to music.
Sarah Caldwell was born on March 6th, 1924. She was a child prodigy and gave violin recitals at age 6. Caldwell became the first woman conductor of a performance by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1976. Sarah received the National Medal of Arts in 1997. Please research her to learn more of her accomplishments.
Francesca Caccini was a musician, poet, educator and composer in Italy during the 1600s. Her father, a musician himself, had connections to the Medici family that ruled Italy for over 200 years. Francesca was wise in using those connections to further her career in ways that were impossible for women of her time. Her work was published, a feat unheard of for women, and her oldest known work (La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, or The Liberation of Ruggiero from Alcina’s Island) is considered the oldest opera written by a woman composer.
Ruth Anderson was a composer, teacher, flutist and orchestrator. She held several college degrees and was one of the first four women to be admitted to the Princeton University Graduate School. In 1968 she founded the Electronic Music Studio at Hunter College (part of CUNY).
These are only a few of the women who paved the way for women in music. I hope that you will research the many more women who have contributed to music is such a positive way.
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