Music's Well-Kept Secret: Women Composers
Adult (Ages 16+) | Available (Membership Required)
During our four-week class, we will explore the lives and music of prominent women composers, only recently being recognized as talented and productive as their male counterparts. In each session, our primary focus will be the works of women who produced music in one of four musical periods: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Early Modern. Together we will investigate the music of these remarkable women, many of whose works were ignored or even published under men's names. I have designed this class for anyone who enjoys listening to compelling, poetic, sometimes playful music, regardless of whether you have a musical background or play a musical instrument. I hope you will join me this fall for insights into these unusual women--women who had the courage to forge a path through cultural bias in order to make their musical voices heard.
With music historian Dotty Burstein
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Dotty Burstein
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Dotty Burstein has had a lifelong interest in the intersection of composers' lives and their music. As such she has developed classes for exploring the music of composers from the Classical and Romantic eras, first at the Tufts Lifelong Learning Institute and most recently at Arlington Center for the Arts. During her musical training, Dotty was inducted into the honorary music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, studied with the composer Edwin Gerschefski and the pianist Edward Kilenyi, and played piano in a trio that included her cellist friend and her violinist sister. Today, Dotty continues to enjoy attending concerts and recitals and encouraging others to find joy and inspiration in music.