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Hear Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony
Posted on November 9, 2019
11.9.2019 - Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner perform Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Filming/Videography/Editing: The AV Dept.
Beach’s Gaelic Symphony was the first full length orchestral work published by an American woman composer in 1896.
The Boston Symphony premiered The Gaelic Symphony to great acclaim, but more than 100 years later, we believe this will be... Read More ›
AMY BEACH AND THE “GAELIC” SYMPHONY (Part 1 of 9)
Posted on October 9, 2019
Amy Marcy Cheney, ages 2 and a few years older. Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham.
PYP performed Amy Beach‘s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Click here to watch our performance.
Introduction and Amy the Pianist
If asked to name a female American composer, many people with a passing familiarity with classical music history will... Read More ›
AMY BEACH AND THE “GAELIC” SYMPHONY (Part 2 of 9)
Posted on October 8, 2019
Amy Beach n.d. (maybe around 16?) courtesy Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham.
PYP performed Amy Beach‘s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Click here to watch our performance.
Amy the Composer part 1
Amy couldn’t help it; she started composing at age 4, with four little songs she came up with all in her head... Read More ›
AMY BEACH and THE “GAELIC” SYMPHONY (Part 3 of 9)
Posted on October 7, 2019
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach, Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham.
PYP performed Amy Beach‘s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Click here to watch our performance.
Amy the composer, part 2
Perhaps because of the gender-based response she got from some reviewers for her Mass, even with only that one major work to... Read More ›
AMY BEACH and THE “GAELIC” SYMPHONY (Part 4 of 9)
Posted on October 6, 2019
Maud Powell, from the cover of the biography by Karen Shaffer, and Amy Beach, around 1914, courtesy Library of Congress; with a handwritten dedication to Maud Powell.
PYP performed Amy Beach‘s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Click here to watch our performance.
Amy and her contemporaries part 1
As Beach’s rebuttal to Dvorak’s “ladies” comment attests, Amy Beach... Read More ›
AMY BEACH and THE “GAELIC” SYMPHONY (Part 5 of 9)
Posted on October 5, 2019
Florence Price, Mary V. Dodge
PYP performed Amy Beach‘s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Click here to watch our performance.
Amy and her contemporaries part 2
Florence Price (her maiden name was Smith) was born twenty very significant years later, in a then-racially integrated community in Little Rock, Arkansas, the same one where William Grant Still grew... Read More ›
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