The thread seems to have widened to include all female composers, so I must mention several Australians who will be unknown to most list members: Peggy Glanville-Hicks, orchestral music and operas, spent most of her career in the US; Dulcie Holland, piano music; Margaret Sutherland, wrote in all forms, best known for a fine violin concerto; Miriam Hyde, who died last week at 91, and when in her mid-70s still had the chops to record her two Rachmaninovian piano concertos; Elena Kats-Chernin and Liza Lim, who are the next generation. Richard Pennycuick