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  • #ClassicsaDay #WomensHistoryMonth Week 1, 2022

    Mar 4th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WomensHistoryMonth, Anna Bon, Kassia, Maria Rosa Coccia, Maria Teresa Agnesi, Twitter

    The Classics a Day team chose Women’s History Month as the theme for March. Actually, it’s been the March theme for the past five years. And there are still many composers to explore. As always, I try to shore works I haven’t posted before. And as always for this month, I’m posting works by composers […]

  • Hymns of Kassiani – history’s first woman composer

    Mar 18th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alexander Lingas, Cappella Records, Cappella Romana, CD Review, choral music, Classical music, early music, Kassia, Noteworthy Release, SACD

    Pop quiz: who’s the earliest female composer you can think of? Chances are, it’s Hildegarde von Bingen. Although her star has risen from obscurity, she’s not the earliest, or perhaps, the most important. That honor belongs to Kassiani, or Kassia (c.810-c.865). Kassia’s career had some significant differences with Hildegard von Bingen, who was born two […]

  • #ClassicsaDay Women’s History Month Week 1

    Mar 5th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WomensHistoryMonth, Anna Amalia, Classical music, Elisabetta Brusa, Jeanne Danglas, Kassia, Larua Constance Netzel, Twitter

    The #ClassicsaDay team often uses Women’s History Month as their theme for March. And for good reason. Classical audiences might be aware that there are contemporary female composers. But perhaps not so aware (with the exception of Hildegard von Bingen), of how many women composed music throughout the centuries. For March 2021, I decided to […]

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