@Baggashite I’m so pleased you enjoyed it!

@Baggashite She has big targets. Wants to study medicine at Kings or Imperial College. So happy for her. To say the least, 'my work here is done!'

@Baggashite Good luck to your lad on his test 🤞

And here ends my first discussion of something that I love. Maybe I’ll do this again sometime (or maybe not).

My personal favorite is La fée de La fontaine (The Fairy in the Fountain), a beautiful piece of music that builds to a stunning climax. https://youtu.be/nqINC77Y6wA

Dreaming (from Sketches, Op. 15) is probably her most well-known piece. https://youtu.be/Vy1N9O7AmgM

This is her only piano concerto: a muscular, memorable, exhilerating piece—the first piano concerto composed by a woman in America. She composed it in 1898 and 1899 and performed it multiple times with multiple orchestras. https://youtu.be/SKYBhHK5Zh4

So what does her music sound like?

And after her shitty husband died, Amy went to Europe and gave recitals in German cities (playing largely her own pieces) and was described in reviews as a virtuoso pianist and the leading American composer who had “a musical nature tinged with genius.”

If this seems shitty, it’s because it is shitty. If we’re trying to find a silver lining, then we could say that it’s partially because of this that she became the most famous American composer of her time. She was the first female composer ever to have works performed by the New York Philharmonic: her Mass in E-flat (1892).