Women Composers
*T HE broadcast of the elimination con- ‘" test for the finalist in the Melba Scholarship, held in conjunction with the Dunedin Competitions, was a dismal failure, and must have disappointed many listeners in other centres, who would be listening to 4YA in hopes of hearing the singer from their own dis-
trict. Something went wrong with the technical side of the relay, and the intermittent bursts of song which came over in the early stages were «just enough to make listeners really irritated, especially as the winner was one of those who had
already sung before the hitch was remedied. It was a consolation to find that_ on the same evening’s programme from — 4YA there was a good studio recital by ‘Patricia Thorn, who chose a group of modern art songs by women composers. With a very few exceptions, women have’ not distinguished themselves in> compositions on a larger scale, but a_ programme such as this illustrated their ability to make a thoroughly artistic job of a smaller work. Ethel Smyth maintained that there was a male conspiracy against the recognition of women composers, which may indeed have been a factor to be reckoned with in her early days; but I imagine the field to be an entirely open one nowadays, and there must . other reasons why the famous woman composer hasn’t yet arisen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 11
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226Women Composers New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 11
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