The Daffodil Perspective (Radio Show focused on how women fit into our current version of classical music history)
Twitter: @daffodilmusic
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Website: www.thedaffodilperspective.com
The Daffodil Perspective is a revolutionary new radio show based in London, UK, rewriting classical music history with a more accurate and gender balanced account. The Daffodil Perspective is showing how women fit into our current version of classical music history and exploring the stories of these women, their music and monumental achievements. Each episode features at least 50% of pieces and airtime by women composers.
The Daffodil Perspective has 3 aims:
Rewrite the past
Support the present
Inspire the future
Rewriting the past: Every week The Daffodil Perspective is focusing on a different woman composer, exploring her life and music along with her famous male friends and contemporaries to provide a musical and historical context. In this way The Daffodil Perspective is connecting the dots of classical music history, creating a more accurate account.
Supporting the present: The Daffodil Perspective supports living composers, giving their work a platform to be heard. Each week Contemporary Corner showcases a piece by a living composer. The Daffodil Perspective also supports performers and organisations who are playing music by women composers. They are integral to getting music by female composers heard and accepted into the canon. The album of the week section features mostly new releases along with a few less recent releases.
Inspiring the future: The Daffodil Perspective believes in a gender balanced future. Every week the show features a complete 50/50 gender split of composers, with as close as possible to equal airtime. The Daffodil Perspective is a solution based organisation. It’s not complaining about the lack of women composers in concert programmes or new release lists and leaving it there, it’s highlighting the need for change in a positive way and most importantly offering gender balanced solutions that already exist.
Through the monthly newsletter, blog and regular new release round-ups on the show, The Daffodil Perspective offers positive gender balanced alternatives to the current patriarchy and male domination in most of the classical music industry.