Resistance and Unity: Women Rise

• Reena Esmail: Zeher for Cello and Strings (Rhonda Rider, cello)

• Victoria Yagling: Suite for Cello & Strings (Rhonda Rider, cello)

• Florence Price: Andante Moderato for String Orchestra

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

• Warren Cohen: Concerto Grosso no. 1 for String Quartet and String Orchestra

With this concert of works for string orchestra, MusicaNova highlights women in classical music. This is fitting, because much of the string orchestra music we have today dates from the late 19th century, when women were allowed to learn only the piano or strings, and were not allowed in mainstream orchestras. The string orchestra developed to give women a place to play music.