I guess I could think of fifty or a hundred great composers, without too much difficulty. However they would be all male. Yet I would be hard put to think of a memorable tune written by a woman. Why is this?
There have been some great women writers and film-makers, and some very good female artists. I read somewhere that the reason there are no great women composers is that they don't have the same capacity for abstraction that men do. In other words, the more down-to-earth the art-form is, the better they are at it. Is it all down to how the brain is wired?
2007-07-26
11:36:49
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