by Anne Midgette in The Washington Post | Nov 3, 2017
The headline looks like a spoof: “There’s a good reason there are no great female composers.” The article beneath it eviscerates the outputs of Clara Schumann (“a dud”), Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach and Dame Ethyl Smyth — wondering, basically, who could be bothered to listen to such inferior talents. I wish this were a relic of the past, something to be chuckled over to demonstrate how far we’ve come, but I can’t. It ran in the well-known British conservative weekly Spectator in 2015.
Read the full story in The Washington Post