Women composers
A number of threads running through the season hold connections to the remarkable year of 1918.
Published: 19 April 2018
A key historical moment in 1918, and in the expansion of universal suffrage, was Parliament’s decision to give the right to vote to women over 30 who either owned land themselves or were married to men with property.
In recognition of the suffrage movement eight women composers never previously commissioned by the BBC have new works performed across the eight Proms At… Cadogan Hall lunchtime chamber music concerts:
Ravel
- Daphnis and Chloe (14 July)
- Tzigane (15 July)
- Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (4 August)
- Boléro (15 August)
- Mother Goose; Shéhérazade; L’enfant et les sortilèges (18 August)
- La valse (31 August)
- Introduction and Allegro (3 September)
- Caroline Shaw (16 July)
- Eve Risser (23 July)
- Jessica Wells (30 July)
- Lisa Illean (6 August)
- Suzanne Farrin (13 August)
- Laura Mvula (20 August)
- Bushra El-Turk (27 August)
- Nina Šenk (3 September)
The Proms also features other notable women who have contributed to classical music over the past 100 years, including suffragette Ethel Smyth, Morfydd Owen, in the centenary year of her death, and Thea Musgrave (pictured below), who celebrates her 90th birthday this year.
