Nasty women : piano music in the age of women's suffrage

"This is an album of important compositions for piano by women composers, composed between the early 20th Century and the 1940s. Joanna Goldstein is Professor of Music at Indiana University Southeast ... She also studied at the Academy for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar and has received numerous honors including winning the Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artist Competition on two occasions, the National Arts Club Competition and the Mason-Hamlin Competition".

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"Joanna Goldstein's 2018 release on Centaur is a survey of piano music from the era of women's suffrage a century earlier. More specifically, it brings together short piano pieces by female composers who participated in a music conference held in April 1925 in Washington, D.C., five years after the passage of the 19th Amendment. The program opens with a block of single pieces that span the period, from Virginia Roper's 1906 composition, "In Venezia," to Florence Price's "Fantasie Negre" from 1929 ... showing a range of styles from ragtime to parlor miniatures ... Of these composers, Amy Beach is the best-remembered for her prolific output, and she is represented by two character pieces ... A standout selection is Dana Suesse's "Afternoon of a Black Faun" from 1938, where she blended classical and jazz elements with a sophistication likely acquired from her famous teacher, Nadia Boulanger. Goldstein's performances are sensitive and at times sentimental, as befits much music of the fin de siècle, with the exception of the rags that receive a jauntier treatment".

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