Audio cassettes LPI 1 and 2
Sampler Cassettes with composer interviews
An historical sampling
of Women Composers
& their music, Middle Ages to the present,
presented with their male contemporaries
Music samples from the Leonarda LP Record Catalog (1979-1986),
including LPs now out-of-print. Voice-over introductions
introduce composers as their music plays, and some of
the composers are interviewed.
Composers interviewed are Rebecca
Clarke (d.1979), Priaulx Rainier (d.1986), Sarah Aderholdt, Katherine
Hoover, Julie Kabat, Rudolph Palmer, Marga Richter, Ruth Schonthal (d.
2006), Ludmila Ulehla (d. 2010), Judith Lang Zaimont, and Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich.
These cassettes were made prior to LPI 3-4 "Women
Composers: The Lost Tradition Found" tapes, also largely based
on the Leonarda LP catalog. Much of the music is the same. Here, the
selections are shorter, but there are more of them and more composers
are represented.
The voice-overs make these items particularly appealing
to the general public.In fact, the cassette manufacturing people were
so impressed, they called in other workers to hear some of the tapes
at lunch time.The tapes make great listening on the road as well as
at home, and make ideal gifts.