The Rhythm Method: Hidden Mothers

MUSIC
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021
8:00 PM

Virtual Groupmuse Live Stream

$13 (additional donation requested)
https://www.groupmuse.com/events/11785-the-rhythm-method-hidden-mothers?source=shortlink-generic

The vital and exciting string quartet The Rhythm Method does a program mainly of forgotten female composers — with a ringer by one of their members (all four of them compose), Leah Asher, whose music is just excellent. The deader composers on their roster prove that just because you're ignored and female, it doesn't mean you absolutely need to be heard. Florence Price's lingering-Late-Romantic music was outdated when she composed it — and while it's wildly unfair that similar composers get played and she hasn't until recently, that doesn't mean I personally want to spend time on her stuff. Elizabeth Maconchy, on the other hand, is a lost gem of Early and High Modernism, clearly denied her due place in music history because of her sex. I've never heard anything by the Late Romantic Amanda Röntgen-Maier, but her music can't be more boring than her husband's.

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