Teresa del Riego's suffrage anthem
In an 1899 Prom concert the music of Teresa del Riego featured and she went on to have works in every season between 1901 and 1926. Lucy Stevens and Elizabeth Marcus perform a song
Teresa del Riego's work was a staple of early Prom seasons but the anthem she premiered for the suffrage movement in 1911, at the Criterion restaurant Piccadilly Circus, which had 1,000 copies of the song distributed around the country, has not been heard recently. Naomi Paxton shares her research into the compositions of del Riego (1876-1968) and the music making of the suffrage circle. Singer Lucy Stevens performs The Awakening (with lyrics by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox) alongside Elizabeth Marcus at the piano.
Naomi Paxton is a 麻豆社/Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker on the scheme which helps early career academics share research on radio. You can find her more of her work on suffragette history as Arts & Ideas podcasts, Sunday features and Essays on 麻豆社 Sounds.
Lucy Stevens and Elizabeth Marcus have recorded Songs and Ballads by Dame Ethel Smyth and rehearsed this del Riego song especially for The Essay recording.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
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- Mon 23 Sep 2024 21:45麻豆社 Radio 3
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