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Come hear this fabulous concert - "Mexicana Hermosa" - Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:30pm at the Latino Cultural Center starring Amy Canchola and Noe Garcia!

Start the New Year with a great concert!

Mexicana Hermosa
A Celebration of Women

starring
Duo Atesorado
Amy Canchola, Soprano
Noe Garcia, Guitar

A concert like no other!
A beautiful collection of songs about women written by talented Mexican composers Natalia LaFourcade, Consuelo Velázquez, María Grever and others.

Thursday, January 11, 2024, 7:30 pm
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak St, Dallas, TX 75204

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Adults $10
Students Free

Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

The musical talent of the norwegian composer Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1847 – 1907) was early discovered. Aged 17 she left for Berlin against the will of her parents to study the piano. Three years later she made her début in Christiania (now Oslo) with Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto under the baton of an unknown conductor named Edward Grieg. After this, she went on studying with the very best of the times: Franz Liszt and Hans von Bülow personally.

One glance at her music and you can tell she must have been an excellent pianist, and indeed she was hailed, even by G.B. Shaw, to be the “true heiress of Clara Schumann”. In 1875 Backer-Grøndahl was elected member of the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden. She was of great influence to the nordic music scene, and in my opinion would probably have been better known to us today than Grieg, had she only been a man. She was part of the norwegian suffrage movement, bur kept a low profile in this not to jeopardize her music sales.

Agathe Backer Grøndahl Til mit Hjertes Dronning / To the queen of my heart | The Art Song Project Jenni Pinnock / Bells in the Rain Vogler & Lindqvist Living composers, Songs, Songs by Female composers November 22, 2012

Today we call them art songs, but when this specific genre first appeared in the late 18th century, they were simply “songs,” nearly always scored for what is now a classic combination: piano and voice. At the time, the Industrial Revolution was helping to create a new class of music lovers. The new Middle Class was wealthy enough to want access to musical entertainment at home, but not wealthy enough to hire live-in court musicians like the aristocratic classes. What they could afford was the perfect new domestic instrument: the piano.

The ability to play the piano and sing became a status symbol for middle and upper middle class families, especially among women (as you might know from the novels of Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters). This made home music a lucrative market for composers. The earliest Lieder [pronounced “leader”], or German art songs, were written for voice and simple piano accompaniment, so that home musicians could accompany themselves or their friends at the piano.

Throughout the 19th century, the genre of art song developed into a sophisticated art form for the concert stage as well as for the home. However, in one sense, it’s never abandoned its domestic beginnings: most art songs are still scored for voice and piano.

Voces Intimae invites you to be a part of our 2023/2024 Season "The Femme Chronicles: Music by Women and about Women."

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Very sad news! Francis Osentowski, former Music Department Chairman and superb professor at North Lake College, inspired composer, and former Voces Intimae Board Member died suddenly of a stroke on July 27. Francis was a very athletic man and we are all surprised by the news of his death. He always had a funny quip or an amusing story to tell. He will be missed!

Memorial Service:
Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery
Memorial Chapel
13005 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75243
Saturday, August 12 at 2pm

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