# Music from six remarkable composers... who just happen not to be men.

An episode of [Classical For Everyone](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1813328568), 9 Feb 2025, 1 h 08 min.

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James Brown once sang, 'It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World' - and for centuries, classical music was exactly that. While talent knows no gender, opportunity certainly did, and countless musical voices were silenced by social barriers and prejudice. But some composers refused to be quiet. This episode introduces music by six women who found ways to make their voices heard: Fanny Mendelssohn, whose works sometimes appeared under her brother's name; Florence Price, who broke barriers as an African-American woman in classical music; and contemporary voices like Jennifer Higdon and Elena Kats-Chernin, whose works premiere in today's concert halls, alongside powerful music from Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Maria Herz.

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