Women's History Month on WMHT

By Joan Tower, Charlotte Wilson

Celebrated American composer Joan Tower presents a daily series of podcasts for WMHT-FM presenting her choice of 31 women composers through history for the 31 days of March.... more

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.

Women's History Month on WMHT episodes:

March 21, 2025 Ellen Taafe Zwilich
(1939 - ) First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, first woman doctoral student at Juilliard, first Composer’s Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall
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4min
March 20, 2025 Sofia Gubaidulina
(1931-2025) one of the last truly courageous composers of Soviet Russia whose death - on March 13 - heralded the end of an age.
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3min
March 19, 2025 Galina Ustvolskaya
(1919-2006) the great Russian Maverick - unique, fearless, and totally uncompromising
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4min
March 18, 2025 Grażyna Bacewicz
(1909 – 1969) the prolific and prodigiously talented Polish composer, violinist and writer with a significant musical voice
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5min
March 17, 2025 Elizabeth Maconchy
(1907-1994) the prolific and pioneering Anglo-Irish composer, first woman Chair of the UK Composers Guild
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3min
March 16, 2025 Ruth Crawford Seeger
(1901 - 1953): American folk music specialist and visionary modernist, first woman composer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship
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3min
March 15, 2025 Florence Price
(1887 - 1953) Pioneering Black composer, first woman to be inducted into the American Society of Composers and first Black woman to have a major symphony premiere
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4min
March 14, 2025 Rebecca Clarke
(1886 - 1970) One of the great viola virtuosos, famous for her viola sonata of 1919
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3min
March 13, 2025 Alma Mahler
(1879 - 1964): pianist, composer, keeper of Gustav Mahler's legacy and musical godmother to generations in the US
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4min
March 12, 2025 Amy Beach
(1867 - 1944) Piano prodigy, and the first American woman composer to make her name both In America and Europe
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4min

FAQs about Women's History Month on WMHT:

How many episodes does Women's History Month on WMHT have?

The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.