4 Solutions
Despite the significant challenges to performing women’s music that still exist, there are potential solutions to overcoming this.
Activity 3
Watch another clip of an interview with Gabriella Di Laccio, founder and curator of Donne Women in Music, discussing potential solutions to performing more music by women.
What does she identify as potential solutions?
Discussion
You may have noted some of the following:
- adding pieces by women to your repertoire
- connecting with organisations that promote women’s music
- contextualising the music for audiences
- creative programming, such as including a work by a woman composer alongside more well-known works by a male peer
- developing new audiences
- commissioning new works by women
- creating performance editions of women’s works
- researching women composers and their music.
In the following weeks, you will consider further all the potential solutions which Gabriella mentions, including where to start researching historical women composers, how to find scores, creating editions, commissioning new works from living women composers, and building new audiences for women’s music.
OpenLearn - Women transforming classical music
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