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Westside Community & Youth Orchestra Spring Concert
The program centers on all women composers, including two pieces by Florence Price, first African-American woman to have a piece performed by a major American orchestra. We also include French composter. Cecile Chaminade, who was a victim of extreme prejudice against women composers in the early 1900s. Julie Giroux is a contemporary artist who has composed everything from video game themes to full symphonies. Ethyl Smyth was a composer but also an ardent suffragette in the 1910s and 20s.
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