“In celebration of the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage, Handel and Haydn Society will honor women during its 2020 ‘Every Voice’ concert on Sunday, Nov. 8,” writes Celina Colby in Thursday’s (11/5) Bay State Banner (Dorchester, MA). “The annual concert will stream online this year, and as always, it’s free and open to the public. The program highlights women composers of color, queer composers and women with a Boston connection whose compositions are long overdue for recognition…. Reginald Mobley will lead the concert. Mobley was appointed earlier this year to the position of programming consultant with the mission to diversify the H+H repertoire. In this concert, that means presenting works by female composers of all kinds. Queer Italian composer Isabella Leonarda [1620-1704] produced almost two hundred compositions, though she was largely unknown outside of her hometown during her lifetime. H+H will perform her piece, ‘Venite, laetantes, Op. 20, No. 12.’ Zenobia Powell Perry [1908-2004], will be celebrated with a rendition of ‘Homage.’ … Three of [Florence Price’s] compositions—‘A White Rose,’ ‘Out of the South Blew a Wind’ and ‘Song to the Dark Virgin’—are featured in the ‘Every Voice’ program.”
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