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Songs of Womanhood

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Music by women composers, from the 12th-century nun
Hildegard of Bingen to the American folk-song collector Ruth Crawford Seeger. Also three
British composers, born 48 years after one another: Ethel Smyth , Elisabeth Lutyens and Judith Weir. Two remarkable performers - Jacqueline Du Pre and Jane Glover ; and one piece by a token man:
Songs of Womanhood, by Rutland Boughton.
Producer Christopher Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Crawford
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Ethel Smyth
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Elisabeth Lutyens
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Judith Weir.
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Jacqueline du Pre
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Jane Glover
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Rutland Boughton.
Producer:
Christopher Marshall
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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