Organ Concert November 11 Showcases Women Composers
Frances Nobert will perform Music, She Wrote: Organ Compositions by Women at Bay Shore Church next Tuesday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. This event is part of the season of the Long Beach Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Dr. Nobert’s program will showcase works by women from the 1800s to the present, with a special emphasis on Americans. Composers will include Elfrida Andrée, Emma Lou Diemer, Ester Mägi, Margaret Meier, Clara Schumann, Jeanne Shaffer, Alex Shapiro, Martha Sobaje and Florence Price. In addition to performing this less-explored repertoire, Dr. Nobert will feature various color stops of the organ, including the recently refurbished Hooded Trumpets.
Dr. Nobert is Professor Emerita of Music at Whittier College. She earned her Bachelor of Music from Salem College, Master of Music from Syracuse University and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. As a recipient of a Fulbright Grant, she studied organ, harpsichord and piano in Germany. For many seasons she served as the accom-panist for a nationwide tour of the Roger Wagner Chorale.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:06 am
I am delighted to learn of the Nov. 11 concert of Frances Nobert, presenting organ works of women composers. This post is linked to AfriClassical, the blog companion of the website http://www.AfriClassical.com Florence B. Price is one of 52 composers and musicians of African descent who are profiled at the website. A Works List and a Bibliography can be found at her page at the website. It is the work of Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, Professor of Music, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. He has devoted the past four decades to the study of Black composers and performers of classical music. I invite readers of Bay Shore Current to visit the Florence Price page at the website, which offers over 100 audio samples.