Women of Notes
Schedule
Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Stockport Town Hall | Stockport, EN
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Doreen Carwithen Bishop RockDorothy Howell Lamia
Florence Price Piano Concerto
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
28 February 2026 7.30pm
Clare Hammond piano
Philip Ellis conductor
A trio of long-neglected female composers make up the first half of this concert. From Buckinghamshire, Birmingham and Arkansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, their music has been unfairly overlooked and now enjoying a belated revival.
Lamia, based on the Keats poem of the snake transformed into a woman, was played at seven successive seasons of the Proms but then not again until 2010; Florence Price was the first black woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra; Carwithen, was the first woman anywhere in the world to work full-time as a film composer.
And we conclude, in the second half, with one of Bartók’s most popular, and accessible works and an orchestral tour de force.
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Where is it happening?
Stockport Town Hall, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Stockport, SK1 3, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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