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New label sheds light on forgotten female composers : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
New record label La Boîte à Pépites dedicated its first release to French composer Charlotte Sohy (1877-1955). La Boîte à Pépites hide caption toggle caption La Boîte à Pépites The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and concert halls around the world went dark for months, the French cellist dedicated much of her time to remedying that gap. “The role of women in the history of music began to gain a certain importance in…