 Women and Music Project -- WAMP An Assemblage of Performing, Composing, and Musicological Scholars based at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University "Where Research, Art, and Activism Converge" The Women’s Studies Research Center is located in the Epstein Building,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453;
across from the Brandeis/Roberts
commuter rail stop. phone 781-736-8111 http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/ Dr. Shulamit Reinharz is the Founding Director. WAMP Co-Chairs are Liane Curtis (ph. 617- 776-1809) Lcurtis@brandeis.edu and Vivian Montgomery (ph. 617-223-1627) vmontgomery@verizon.net WAMP presents our Spring 2009 series of events! Tuesday, March 24 12:30 Women’s Studies Research Center, Admission Free Symphonies by Women: Four Composers from the 19th Century A presentation by Dr. Liane Curtis (WSRC Resident Scholar) When Amy Beach composed her Gaelic Symphony in 1894, she believed she was embarked on a "first" for women. But in fact that orchestral "glass ceiling" had been broken by several European composers. With recorded musical examples, we explore symphonic music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Louise Farrenc, Augusta Holmès, and Beach.
Sunday, March 29 3:00 p.m. Women’s Studies Research Center, reservations required Special Concert: Music By Women of the Americas from Three
Centuries The Lydian String Quartet Music by Teresa Carreño (Venezuelan, late 19th century), Florence Price (African-American, mid-20th c.), Ruth Lomon (WSRC Resident Scholar) and Beth Denisch (late 20th c.) and a newly commisioned work by Cuban composer Magaly Ruiz Lastres. Tickets required, but no charge to Brandeis community, $10 for other students and $15 for all others. Call Liane Curtis at 617-776-1809 or email Lcurtis@brandeis.edu Watercolors (and two weavings) by Lorraine Curtis will be on display in the Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall (at the WSRC), March 23- April 8.  Thursday, April 2 12:30 p.m. Slosberg Music Center, Admission free Brilliant Variations on Sentimental Songs: Slipping
Piano Virtuosity into
the Antebellum Drawing Room Dr. Vivian Montgomery, WSRC Visiting Scholar & Fortepianist A recital/talk revealing a uniquely protected avenue for cultivating musical expertise among young lady amateur pianists. Piano variations on appealing popular songs showcased technical and inventive accomplishment in the insular world of “domestic” pianists in mid-nineteenth-century American households. For further information, phone 781-736-8111
Sunday, May 10 4:00 p.m. Women’s Studies Research Center, Admission free O Let Me Weep, Let Me Laugh, Let Me Sing: A Baroque Mother’s Day Recital Celebrating Women’s Profiles in Music, 1650-1750 Emily Eagen, soprano; Vivian Montgomery (WSRC Visiting Scholar), harpsichord; Sarah Mead, viola da gamba A performance with commentary, revolving around musical characterization of women impassioned, entertained, and under pressure. The program’s centerpiece will be Antonia Padoani Bembo’s extraordinary depiction of an enraged Juno from the composer’s 1707 Ercole Amante. Other surrounding portraits will include Handel’s Lucrezia, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Judith and Semele, Purcell’s Mad Bess and the Blessed Virgin, and Barbara Strozzi as her discontented and whimsical self in Amor Dormiglione. For further information, 617-223-1627 or vmontgomery@verizon.net
OUR PAST EVENTS Sunday, March 1 3:00 p.m. Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Admission free Fortepiano & Friends: Female and Male Composers in the Mix, 1750-1850 Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Diane Heffner, classical clarinet; Na'ama Lion, classical flute Vivian Montgomery (WSRC Visiting Scholar), fortepiano A colorful collection of classical and early romantic chamber and vocal works weaving extraordinary female composers together with their male contemporaries, featuring period winds and Brandeis's newly acquired Viennese fortepiano. The program includes spirited music by Helene Montgeroult, Louis Spohr, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Mozart, and Maddalena Sirmen. For further information, 617-223-1627 or vmontgomery@verizon.net
Tuesday,
March 3 12:30 Women’s
Studies Research Center, Admission Free Testimony of Witnesses: A Composer and Conductor Discuss their Collaboration Ruth Lomon and Jane Ring Frank, Resident Scholars at the WSRC Composer Ruth Lomon and Conductor Jane Ring Frank offer a "behind the scenes" look at the genesis of Testimony of Witnesses: An Oratorio of Remembrance, for orchestra, soloists and chorus. This inspiring work, based on the poetry of eighteen Holocaust victims and survivors, is the product of an eight-year collaboration between composer and conductor. The premiere of Testimony of Witnesses (planned for March 22) has been postponed and will (we hope) be rescheduled for 2010. See http://www.bostonsecession.org/
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