Musicians of Ma'alwyck performs a musical tribute to the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment with music drawn from the suffrage movement as well as works of female composers active in the cause. The program features suffrage hymns, arias from the suffrage opera "Aleda, or the Flight of the Suff Bird Women," and music of Dame Ethel Smyth, an important British women's suffrage activist. Performers are Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, Director and Violin; Norman Thibodeau, Flute; Tess McCarthy, Mezzo-soprano; and Max Caplan, Piano and composer of Aleda.
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This program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
