In Episode 6, series host, soprano Allison Charney will be joined by pianist Donna Weng Friedman who will discuss and perform works by Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Chopin, and living composer Beata Moon. In conjunction with HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY, co-founded by Weng Friedman and Charney, they will also pre-form Ethel Smyth‘s anthem of the Suffrage movement –  The March of the Women – in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversary of the signing in to law of The Voting Rights Act of 1965. For this special presentation, they will be joined by cellist Soo Bae, sopranos Yunah Lee and Indira Mahajan, and mezzo-sopranos Layna Chiankas, Krysty Swann, and Maria Zifchak.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Er ist gekommen/Clara Schumann
Prelude/Beata Moon
Waltz in C# minor, op. 64, no. 2/Frédéric Chopin
Night/Florence Price
The March of the Women/Ethel Smyth
Zueignung/Richard Strauss (with Craig Ketter, piano)

PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope is featured among the following Centennial Celebrations! Visit the sites below for even more events and ways to celebrate!
https://www.womensvote100.org/ 
https://www.womenshistory.org/
https://www.2020centennial.org/
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library
https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/celebrating-100th-anniversary-womens-suffrage-united-states
https://womensvote100.jhu.edu/

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