Andree/ Vogel/ Cesetti - First Ladies Fulfilled By FYE "Bennie and the Jets" and

"Bennie and the Jets" and more

The palette of sonorities is rich

both familiar and strange

Montgeroult

Andree/ Vogel/ Cesetti - First Ladies Fulfilled By FYE "Bennie and the Jets" andOne could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andre in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, and they are now beginning to attract a fair hearing for their music. What ultimately matters, of course, is not whether composers are male