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★★★★☆Decades of sexism, topped off by a burst water main. The composers Ruth Gipps and Peggy Glanville-Hicks haven’t always had it easy. But even a lost day of rehearsals didn’t dampen the BBC Concert
5 March 2021
A small but striking sculpture on display in the Special Collections Reading Room symbolically invites you to discover the National Library’s extensive Music Collection. This year’s Friends Creative Arts Fellow David Wickham will explore and share with us the works of composer Frederick Septimus Kelly but there is much more to be found.
The sculpture
Open Book shows a conductor, arms outstretched with a baton in his hand. Gifted to the Library in memory of English-born Australian composer Peter Tahourdin (1928-2009), the work is by Dutch artist Wiea Duintjer (b. 1951).
Wiea Duintjer 1951- and Peter Tahourdin 1928-2009, Open Book sculpture 2013, nla.cat-vn6454969.
BBC Radio 3 marks International Women s Day with a 24-hour celebration of women composers in a special week of celebration of female creativity bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.