Joelle Wallach visited Sweet Briar College on Wednesday, January 27th and spoke with us about Women Composers dating back from the 800’s to the 20th Century. She was surely a feisty woman with a deep passion for music and for the women she was talking about. She did not have any problems answering the few questions that we could come up with. I was very amazed at how quickly Joelle could identify and separate all of the music within a matter of seconds. Clearly, she studies what she loves and I am sure that she makes this impression on all of her audiences.
There weren’t too many of us who were familiar with the powerful list of composers she introduced to us, so it was definitely a lot to absorb. In fact, I believe that there are only a few people in the classroom who are accustomed to the knowledge of writing music in general. For the most part I think we can identify different genres of music, especially in today’s music, but Joelle helped us recognize subtle differences in each of the different composers. Her helpful hints let us identify the era that the music was created or written in and allowed us to group some of the women together. A great deal of information was presented to us in one short hour, and I could feel Joelle wanting to tell us more and was dying for us to dig deeper and to be curious about these infamous women.
Mallory, I too was struck by how fast Joelle identified the music. That reminded me of how intensely artists study and become intimate with the arts they practice. I really got a strong sense that music was everything to Joelle. I wish everyone had that kind of passion for something.
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