10/3/97
ATHENS, Ohio -- The Women's Studies Program and the School of Music at Ohio University will host the conference "Women in Music: A Celebration of the Last One Hundred Years" Oct. 23-26 on the Athens campus, featuring composers, musicologists, and women's studies scholars, who will speak and perform music.
The conference will feature award-winning composer Joan Tower, whose energetic music has won her large audiences, and composer Judith Lang Zaimont, internationally recognized for her dramatic and vibrant works. The conference will include presentations by Susan Cook, co-author of the book Cecelia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, and musicologist and writer Elizabeth Wood, biographer of suffragist and composer Ethel Smyth.
"Diva: No Man's Band," a New York-based, all-woman big band, Mexican-American singer and songwriter Tish Hinajosa, the Lark String Quartet and the Local Girls will perform.
"Not only is the conference attracting women's studies and music students, but it is also appealing to people interested in music production, performance, and comparative arts," said Aileen Hall, director of the Ohio University Women's Studies Program. "For example, we will have papers on women in rock n' roll, the operatic efforts of Gertrude Stein, band music by women, the work of Dolly Parton, and women as performers and consumers."
Pre-registration for the October conference is required. Students are admitted free, but must pre-register.
For more information or to register, contact Richard Linn at 614/593-0965 or 614/593-4686 or access the conference program on the World Wide Web at: http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~hudson1/music.html.