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Thursday
Mar102011

Women's History Month - Amy Beach, Gaelic Symphony

 Day 10 - Amy Beach - America’s First Female Symphonic Composer

 

Headlines celebrated the work as the first symphony by an American woman, stressing her gender but ignoring any nationalist implications. No critic declared it an American work; yet it fit one contemporary definition of a nationalist work, that it draw on the music of any ethnic group in the United States.

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