COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:
AUGUST 31
GILLIAN BIBBY - NEW ZEALAND
Born 31 August
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Composers of the day: August 30
Sunday, 30 August 2020
COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:
AUGUST 30
IDA VIVADO - CHILE
Born 30 August
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Composers of the day: August 29
Saturday, 29 August 2020
COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:
AUGUST 29
ALINA PIECHOWSKA - LITHUANIA
Born 29 August
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Composers of the week: From 22 to 28 August
Friday, 28 August 2020
Donne 365 celebrates women composers everyday!
Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019.
Check here the composers from this week (22 to 28 August) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!
AUGUST 22
BABETTE KOBLENZ - GERMANY
Born 22 August
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AUGUST 23
STELLA PERALES - ARGENTINA
Born 23 August
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AUGUST 24
EUGÉNIE ROCHEROLLE - USA
Born 24 August
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AUGUST 25
EDYTHE BAKER - USA
Born 25 August
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KATE WARING - USA
Born 25 August
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Composers of the day: August 27
Thursday, 27 August 2020
COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:
AUGUST 27
ADINA IZARRA - USA
Born 27 August
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Album of the week: Hildegard now and then by Hildegard von Bingen & Silvia Berg
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Hildegard Now and Then,
by Hildegard von Bingen & Silvia Berg
Happy listening!
About the album:
As much as we know about Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess who set up her own monastery on the banks of the Rhine and became famous for her religious thinking and visions, there are so many questions we may never answer. This, in part, is what makes her music at once fascinating and mysterious. First, did she herself write the ethereal, soaring chants attributed to her? She lived long before the modern idea of a composer, or indeed an artist of any kind, had taken hold. That would only happen centuries later. Art in the 12th century was made to serve God. The individual maker’s name was rarely known.
Hildegard’s music might have been a collaborative process, between herself and her nuns. It’s possible that Hildegard initiated a melody, in her own distinctive way, and someone else wrote it down. Was she, and is she, as we encounter on this disc in the music of Silvia Berg, primarily an inspiration? These are matters to ponder, as are all the variants of preparing music for the daily liturgy in a cloistered religious dwelling, when we listen to the remarkable body of works associated with her: 75 ‘symphoniae’ , known as the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (The Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations), and a sacred morality drama, Ordo Virtutum. Her predominant subjects are the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary, angels, the living light, local saints and, above all, God’s creation of humanity. The rich language of her texts is vividly informed by her own taxonomies of plants, trees, animals, fish, precious stones and minerals (in written works such as Physica, or Causae et Curae).
Only much later, at the start of her fifth decade, did Hildegard find her own creative and intellectual voice, setting up a monastery, writing theological tracts, communicating with popes, bishops and emperors, fighting against corruption in the Church, her thoughts often shaped by the visions which had been central to her life since childhood. Described as ‘the sybil of the Rhine’, and known far beyond her native land, Hildegard died in her Rupertsberg monastery in 1179. At the time of her death, witnesses recorded, a ‘manifest miracle’ occurred. Two arcs of brilliant colour appeared in the sky, broadening to the fours corners of the earth, and the moon was full. Immediately revered as a saint, Hildegard of Bingen was officially canonised in 2012.
© FIONA MADDOCKS, 2019
Fiona Maddocks is the author of Hildegard of Bingen; the woman of her age (Faber)
As much as we know about Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess who set up her own monastery on the banks of the Rhine and became famous for her religious thinking and visions, there are so many questions we may never answer. This, in part, is what makes her music at once fascinating and mysterious. First, did she herself write the ethereal, soaring chants attributed to her? She lived long before the modern idea of a composer, or indeed an artist of any kind, had taken hold. That would only happen centuries later. Art in the 12th century was made to serve God. The individual maker’s name was rarely known.
Hildegard’s music might have been a collaborative process, between herself and her nuns. It’s possible that Hildegard initiated a melody, in her own distinctive way, and someone else wrote it down. Was she, and is she, as we encounter on this disc in the music of Silvia Berg, primarily an inspiration? These are matters to ponder, as are all the variants of preparing music for the daily liturgy in a cloistered religious dwelling, when we listen to the remarkable body of works associated with her: 75 ‘symphoniae’ , known as the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (The Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations), and a sacred morality drama, Ordo Virtutum. Her predominant subjects are the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary, angels, the living light, local saints and, above all, God’s creation of humanity. The rich language of her texts is vividly informed by her own taxonomies of plants, trees, animals, fish, precious stones and minerals (in written works such as Physica, or Causae et Curae).
Only much later, at the start of her fifth decade, did Hildegard find her own creative and intellectual voice, setting up a monastery, writing theological tracts, communicating with popes, bishops and emperors, fighting against corruption in the Church, her thoughts often shaped by the visions which had been central to her life since childhood. Described as ‘the sybil of the Rhine’, and known far beyond her native land, Hildegard died in her Rupertsberg monastery in 1179. At the time of her death, witnesses recorded, a ‘manifest miracle’ occurred. Two arcs of brilliant colour appeared in the sky, broadening to the fours corners of the earth, and the moon was full. Immediately revered as a saint, Hildegard of Bingen was officially canonised in 2012.
© FIONA MADDOCKS, 2019
Fiona Maddocks is the author of Hildegard of Bingen; the woman of her age (Faber)
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