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April 21, 2018 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Friends of Music at Guilford (FOMAG), now in its 52nd season, presents its 9th annual Women in Music benefit gala at a private West Brattleboro residence this coming Saturday, April 21, with a buffet supper, silent auction, and concert. The 6:00 supper buffet includes hearty hors d’oeuvres, salads, and sides, with an assortment of wines and other beverages. The 7:00 concert features soprano Jenna Rae, pianist Hugh Keelan, and a few Guilford Chamber Players performing songs and chamber works by three noted British women:
Madeleine Dring (1923-1977), a young prodigy who studied with some of Britain’s best 20th-century composers, she was known especially for her theater and broadcast projects — a one-act opera was just produced in 2017, and a hundred songs were recently typeset for publication . . . . famed suffragette and author Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), who pursued an education in music in spite of paternal disapproval, producing an extensive body of work — she was the only woman with an opera produced at the Met (1903) until last season . . . . and Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929), an early music expert, composer, poet and author — a dedicated folksong researcher, collector, and arranger, she was one of the main influences of the English folk revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
