Pride Month-Higdon & Monk

🎀 Cute Composer Series: Contemporary Queer Women Composers 🏳️‍🌈🎶 Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) is one of America's most performed living composers and an openly lesbian woman married to her longtime partner Cheryl Lawson 💙 A self-taught flutist who didn't start composing until age 21, she went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music AND a Grammy in the same year — for two different pieces 🏆🏆 Her orchestral work blue cathedral, written in memory of her late brother, has received over 650 performances since its premiere in 2000 and is considered the first 21st-century work to enter the standard orchestral repertoire 🌊✨ Meredith Monk (b. 1942) is an American composer, performer, filmmaker, and choreographer who has spent over 50 years creating work that defies every category it touches 🎭✨ An openly gay woman, she developed an extended vocal technique that treats the voice as its own complete instrument — without words — producing music of stunning, otherworldly emotional power 🎤🌿 Her works blur the line between music, theater, film, and ritual. She has been called "one of America's coolest composers" by The New York Times 😎 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙 Recordings: 🎶 Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, cond. Stéphane Denève — live 27 Jan 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2Tps5cgc4 🎶 Meredith Monk: Indra's Net — trailer (Park Avenue Armory, North American premiere 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J80JOLVJ84 (If you want a longer Monk performance clip instead of a trailer, there's also a 2021 live excerpt from Indra's Net performed at Mills College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vspHHiET0c) . . . . . #CuteComposerSeries #JenniferHighdon #MeredithMonk #LGBTQComposers #QueerClassical #PrideMonth #WomenComposers #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #Opera #VocalMusic #ComposerSpotlight #NewMusic #daixai Best 5 for reach: #PrideMonth #WomenComposers #LGBTQComposers #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical