Well, the school got it's sense together and actually CANCELED classes today so nobody would DIE. This means no women in music today. :-( As happy as I am that classes were canceled, I was looking forward to our first discussion meeting! From our text (women and music) we were to read the preface and first chapter. While I didn't completely agree with all that was mentioned in the 1st chapter, it will be exciting to get more familiar with the idea's proposed and the discussions to follow. I personally haven't had much exposure to the idea of women in music, save for some discussion in Professor Leonard's Music Since 1900 class, and the theoretical and compositional worship of Nadia Boulanger. I think it will be exciting to look at women as performers and teachers...it's interesting because as a cellist, all my teachers have been women, and with the exception of Rostropovich and Steven Isserlis, most performers I listen to are women. All of my piano teachers have also been women, however, all my organ teachers have been men. I think the organ world (albeit small) is also still a very male dominated one. Maybe that has something to do with the church and the parallelism of organ playing and church music and church participation. But enough of that for now!
Off to enjoy my snowday, do some readings and watching season 2 of Rick and Steve on Netflix
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