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Women Composer Portraits
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During March — Women's History Month — KMFA broadcast Women Composer Portraits with Kathryn Mishell each day in 2010.  Each Portrait is two to four minutes long. The music being referred to was broadcast on KMFA immediately after the Portrait.

Week 1

1. Hildegard von Bingen: Ave Generosa
2. Amy Beach: Symphony in e minor (Gaelic)
3. Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor op.36
4. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Trio Sonata in D Major
5. Germaine Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 1
6. Elinor Remick Warren: The Harp Weaver
7. Lili Boulanger: Du Fond de L'Abime

Week 2

8. Augusta Read Thomas: Wind Dance
9. Ethel Smyth: String Quintet, Op. 1
10. Grace Williams: Symphony No. 2
11. Cecile Chaminade: Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 11
12. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: String Quartet in E Flat Major
13. Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartet No. 3
14. Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Percussion

Week 3

15. Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté: Triple Concerto for trumpet, clarinet, & bassoon
16. Vítezslava Kaprálová: String Quintet, Op. 1
17. Melinda Wagner: Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion
18. Libby Larsen: Still Life with Violin
19. Katherine Hoover: Clarinet Concerto
20. Mary Howe: Spring Pastoral
21. Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, op 17

Week 4

22. Minna Keal: Symphony Op. 3
23. Joan Tower: Island Rythms
24. Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Six Morceau
25. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Prologue and Variations
26. Isabella Leonarda: Sonata Seconda, Op. 16
27. Grazyna Bacewicz: Divertimento for Strings
28. Doreen Carwithen: Bishop Rock
29. Rebecca Clarke: Dumka for Violin, Viola, and Piano
30. Ruth Crawford Seeger: Diaphonic Suite No. 1 for Flute
31. Thea Musgrave: Spring, Summer from The Seasons

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