Theme Day Idea: Celebrate Female Film Composers [ADDED]

That was exactly what I was thinking, word for word!!! Laughing

I'm all for it, but I'm wondering whether we have enough of them in the SST Library to make a Theme Day out of it...
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We could try. Even if it where not to be a full
24hour long playlist. The playlist is still being brought back up little by little so I cant put together the whole list yet.

Part of the greats.. Debbie Wiseman and Rachel Portman. Debbie's work can melt anyone's heart as will Rachel's. Both easily make my favorite list of composers. Making it an all Wiseman and Portman
day, I'd be a happy camper.

But there's more...
Anne Dudley, Cynthia Miller, Shirley Walker

Lisa Gerrard , has colaborated on many projects. Oh and Enya, and the group Clannad.

http://www.mdxmusic.net/module_pathway_pages/media_music/women_film_cs.html

And how much work has this lady done in the world of film music! wow
Lolita Ritmanis
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728667

Last edited by Techo on Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

Might want to scratch Andrea Morricone off the list as he is the son of Ennio Morricone. Wink

I think it is a wonderful idea to honor female composers and think for the most part Techo covered most of the female composers (only one off the top of my head right now that I would add is Deborah Lurie). However, my idea of a theme day is a theme that can be focused on for an entire day with requests. Yeah, I may be getting nitpicky, but I don't think on the whole there should be a ton of theme days and if there are it should be sustainable with requests for an entire day.

That being said I think it would be good to designate the day Ladyinque mentioned as something like "Female Composer Appreciation Day" and then people can select music from a female composer if they like, but not necessarily a 'theme' day. Like I said a bit nitpicky, but that is just my feedback.

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject:

Might want to scratch Andrea Morricone off the list as he is the son of Ennio Morricone. Wink

An alternative, I am not a person who only critics. See my posting here about "Keep the BalancE"!!

Make a Day called: "Who are the Newcomers of young (male + female) film score composers ?"

And present herefore a 50% - 50% playtime of young Ladies and Gentlemen in three or four age groups:

1. under age of 19 years: The prodegies ??
2. under age of 25 years: the real up- and new-comers
3. age of 25-32: They wanna be made (students, 1st award winners...)
(4. age +33 years: They got it ! (music for a 1st real blockbuster))

Each group get a playtime of 6-8 hours. divided into 50-50%, 3-4 hours for female and male composers...

That would be a "KEEP in BALANCE" Spirit I'd liked. Hope it gives you / us a positively impulse.

Enjoy listen good music ! - Greetings from ElJay (Europe/Germany/Hamburg)