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Karl Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:17:17 -0600
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Anne Ozorio wrote:

>The reason I talk about these things is nor to disagree with you, but
>because the real role of women composers has been obscured by a lot of
>well meaning but inaccurate pseudo feminist ideology - the same "special
>pleading" for Alma which raises her as an icon of male victimisation.
>What Clara and Robert really did is even more remarkable when seen on
>its own terms.

I agree on both points.  For me the ideology stems from an attempt to
categorize, something, I believe, we humans tend to do, even when there
is no need to do so.

Writing this I am reminded of the BBC series, "Hilda Tablet, Composeress."
Only the British could have come up with that...

Karl

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