Women Composers: Women composers

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List of women composers from Oxford Music Online.
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Cuba Mia: Portrait of An All-Woman Orchestra captures the musicians of the all-female orchestra Camerata Romeu as they prepare for an end-of-the-year concert in Old Havana's Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. With one of the world's most beautiful churches as the backdrop, the women play a unique blend of classical music, created by famous Cuban and Latin American composers. Cuba Mia follows the musicians and conductor Zenaida Romeu as they juggle their studies, and personal lives, with a demanding schedule and complex musical repertoire.

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

Beyond The Grace Note’ looks at the struggles and problems that many of the most famous female conductors in the world have had to face pursuing their chosen profession. The job itself is demanding enough but there are extra hurdles that women have to face. A man can be decisive but a woman is seen as bossy or overbearing. Her gestures are not firm enough for many musicians. And of course she cannot possibly tackle the more masculine classical repertoire like Beethoven or Verdi or Wagner or Rachmaninov.Marin Alsop, Mirga Grazinte-Tyla, Xian Zhang, Jane Glover, Joana Carneiro, Sian Edwards and other conductors share their own paths to the podium.

At his music festival, Scott Yoo plays America’s greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach. In New England, he explores her roots and career. At a time when society looked down on women composers, Beach worked to invent a new American music.

Scott Yoo explores the newly rediscovered music of Florence Price, to understand how African American spirituals--a mixture of West African songs and European hymns--influenced her work and nearly all of American popular music.

Reena Esmail draws from traditional Indian rhythms and scales to create her signature sound.