The 29-year-old Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla gives hope that more women will have influential roles in classical music.
Here’s my Rhapsody piece for International Women’s Day:
It took until 1920 for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be ratified, guaranteeing female citizens the right to vote. But almost 100 years later, the status quo in classical music still needs a whole lot of shaking up if women are to have any chance of fair representation.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 