Allegra Sparkle

Allegra Sparkle’s Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of) is an animated kids TV show by @lilliegardner. 🎶✨ Austin Film Festival Winner ‘22!

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Allegra Sparkle's Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of) is an award-winning kids TV script that teaches kids about underrepresented composers. 🎶 Watch our teaser produced with @FVStudioBoston & join us at https://t.co/St5PVZd7HQ! ✨ https://t.co/GfLzPMzm0h

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What music are you listening to this weekend? 💖 Allegra Sparkle recommends Amy Beach’s ‘Summer Dreams,’ William Grant Still’s ‘Summerland,’ and Chiquinha Gonzaga’s ‘HIP!!! (Polka-Galope).’ 🎹🎶

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Friday Tune! 🎵 We're listening to Ruth Crawford Seeger's Suite for Wind Quintet to kick off her birthday weekend (July 3). Fun fact: young Ruth wanted to be a poet when she grew up! https://t.co/GmPAUUyBF3

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Who are your favorite accounts to follow for learning about women composers and other underrepresented composers? 🎶

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A Tempo host Rachel Katz invited @AllegraSparkle , or at least her creator, to this week's program. Tune in to hear a conversation with @LillieGardner
at 7 pm at https://t.co/gmX9YAJaXg. https://t.co/tMXzEqy4VL #womeninmusic #womencomposers

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On the radio tonight! 📻 Allegra Sparkle creator @LillieGardner will be chatting about the project and her passion about advocating for women composers on WWFM’s A Tempo with Rachel Katz. https://t.co/PoMtiVutDn

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Happy birthday to Louise Farrenc! 🎈 In addition to writing brilliant music, Farrenc demanded & received equal pay after 7 years of being paid less than her male counterparts when she was Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she would hold for 30 years. ✨

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Are you following Allegra Sparkle on Instagram yet? 📸 See more concept art and underrepresented composer spotlights at https://t.co/fHpYxPaOoT! ✨

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“To compose was as natural to me as to breathe.” -Queen Lili’uokalani (1838-1917)

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Happy birthday week to Puerto Rican composer Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa! ✨ Gutiérrez was a conductor, educator and composer of over 300 works—including sacred music, orchestral pieces, three operas and a zarzuela. 🎭

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How much do you love this illustration of Elisabetta de Gambarini outside of a 1740s London theater? 😍 As a teenager, Elisabetta put on her own benefit concert (talk about unapologetic self-promotion!) to raise the funds she needed to publish her own keyboard music. 🎹📚

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Musical sisters throughout history! 👯‍♀️✨
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Friday Tune: Julia Perry's A Short Piece for Orchestra, performed by @TheOrchNow! 🎶

Julia Perry was an American composer who lived from 1924-1979. A Short Piece for Orchestra was first performed & recorded by the New York Philharmonic in 1965. ✨

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Leonora & Francisca & Catharina Duarte:

All talented members of an influential Portuguese-Jewish family in 1600s Belgium, Leonora composed the first known music by a woman for viola da gamba & Francisca and Catharina were also renowned harpsichordists, lute players and singers.

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Musical sisters throughout history! 👯‍♀️✨
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Amanda Aldridge & Luranah Aldridge:

Both successful Black British opera singers in the early 20th century, Amanda composed love songs, sambas and more under the name "Montague Ring" & Luranah was called "one of the most beautiful voices that exist" by composer Charles Gounod.

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What are your favorite songs or pieces that get you into the spring spirit? 🌸 We love Amy Beach’s “The Year’s at the Spring.” 🥰 https://t.co/H7ESV5wG1F