When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos, string quartets and various large-scale choral and chamber works. Not content with her creative activities, her boundless energy fuelled her other roles as conductor, concert pianist, orchestral musician and pedagogue. Her many talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. She gained a reputation for being uncompromising both personally and...
When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and in...
Confronting arguments that denigrate women's ability to compose, Halstead (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) asks why women composers are still such a rarity in Britain at the end of the 20th century. She focuses on the experiences of nine composers born this century Avril Coleridge Taylor, Gr
Confronting arguments that denigrate women's ability to compose, Halstead (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) asks why women composers are still ...
