Jaime Martín, a ‘musician’s musician’ who reveals Grace Williams’ ‘rhino pores and skin’ | EUROtoday
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“If you’re going to be a songwriter, you’re going to need the skin of a rhinoceros.” With this metaphor, Ralph Vaughan Williams warned his Welsh pupil Grace Williams—then in her twenties on the Royal College of Music—in 1926 of the emotional armor that each lady needed to forge in that career. It wouldn’t take lengthy for her to show it: returning to London in 1931, after finishing her coaching in Vienna with Egon Wellesz, she earned her dwelling instructing at women’ faculties whereas publishers refused to publish bold works signed by younger girls, and even much less so those who, like hers, embraced the brand new European aesthetics.
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XXXI Season of Great Concerts
Works by Grace Williams, Camille Saint-Saëns and Edward Elgar.
Akiko Suwanai, violin.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Jaime Martin, director.
Zaragoza Auditorium. Mozart Room. April 27.
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