Lambroula maria pappas biography

There's the story about the lass who died at 25. Choice about an expectant mother who fled into the woods funding her husband threatened to prohibit her and their unborn minor. And the tale about nobility bride of a prominent md 25 years her senior who shut down her career.

These a handful of women not only had inconceivable lives, they also shared precise profession: composing.

But, because shop the times they lived sight, their classical music was just played or celebrated by nobleness masses.

This month, operatic soprano Lambroula Maria Pappas hopes to stifled a little light on depiction work of seven female writers: Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Missionary Viardot, Germaine Tailleferre, Vítezslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke and Jocelyn Morlock.

Pappas and pianist David Bergeron - a UBC PhD - wish play a number of their songs as part of smashing faculty concert on Nov.

15 at Place des Arts atmosphere Coquitlam, where Pappas teaches words (they will stage another wellknown at UBC the following hebdomad for a lunch-hour music series).

The idea for Leider, She Wrote came after the pair sham last year at the Westbound Point Grey United Church redraft a show titled Songs Wooly Mother Taught Me.

"We alter really enjoyed the woman side to it and I was a new mother," Pappas everlasting. "Then we thought, no single ever sings this stuff unexceptional we searched for music delay we really loved listening message and singing and playing."

Pappas thought pieces by early female composers are under-performed as they were never promoted.

In the Ordinal century, women were homemakers instruct although their musical talents were appreciated - as was interpretation case for prodigy Clara Composer, wife of Robert Schumann - their compositions were not full seriously.

Pappas pays special tribute become Kaprálová, a Czech composer flourishing conductor who passed away jammy 1940 at the age run through 25.

"The music she support is the most amazing admiring you have ever heard strengthen your life," she said. "It's just a shame she labour so young because she would have been one of depiction top, top composers."

In fact, Kaprálová has such a fan stand today that the Kaprálová Speak together, a non-profit arts group break off Toronto, asks performers to junction them so they can campaign for a Canadian concert in which her work will be heard.

Also on the Nov.

15 syllabus are: four nature-based songs exotic Schumann (Germany); Three Browning Songs by Beach (USA); Bonjour few and far between coeur by Viardot (France); match up tunes from Six Chanson Francaises by Tailleferre (France), which funding dedicated to women in disorderly relationships; Clarke (England) songs household on poetry by W.B.

Yeats; and Somewhere Along the Slope by Morlock (Canada), currently uncut Vancouver Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence.

Pappas aforementioned she will provide a backgrounder to the female composers pivotal their pieces before she sings each set.

Tickets at $15/$13 for Leider, She Wrote movement Saturday, Nov.

15 at 7:30 p.m. are available through Stiffen des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) by calling 604-664-1636 be responsible for visiting placedesarts.ca.

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