{"id":7843,"date":"2019-11-13T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:15:59","slug":"classical-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/classical-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical gender equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Daffodil Project aims to “champion gender equality in classical music.” In a blog post<\/a>, Elizabeth de Brito writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mozart and Beethoven together make up just over one third of all classical performances…. Add the next 4 most played composers — Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky — and they make up 78% of classical performances. Over 400 years and hundreds of amazing composers, but nearly 80% of all performances are of just 6 white male composers that all died over a century ago?!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Brito produces an online gender-balanced classical music program which in its first year had “409 composers including 204 female composers, 155 living composers, and 40 BAME composers\/composers of colour.” The most played composer? — Florence Price<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And De Brito has hit on one of the main reasons why I don’t bother going to hear classical music concerts much any more — I’m so bored by hearing the same composers over and over again. I like “classical” music just fine, but I don’t want to hear Beethoven and Mozart again and again, I want to hear living composers, women composers, non-white composers…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings me to Unitarian Universalist services that use mostly classical music: what would happen if half the music in our worship services was composed by women<\/a>? or if we programmed more composers of African descent<\/a>? and how about a Mexican composer<\/a>? Life would be a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daffodil Project aims to “champion gender equality in classical music.” In a blog post, Elizabeth de Brito writes: “Mozart and Beethoven together make up just over one third of all classical performances…. Add the next 4 most played composers — Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky — and they make up 78% of classical performances. Over … Continue reading “Classical gender equality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","category-religion-miscellany","tag-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7844,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}