Elinor Armer II - Part 3

For Good Measure

For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Episode 62: Elinor Armer II (part 3)
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In this week’s episode, we talk to Elinor Armer about her career as a woman composer and the founder of the composition department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Elinor Armer, check her out here: www.elinorarmer.com/. Parts of this episode originally premiered on January 2021, found on Youtube, click here.

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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
Producer, Host, and E4TT co-founder: Nanette McGuinness
Audio Engineer: Stephanie M. Neumann
Podcast Cover Art: Brennan Stokes
Interns: Roziht Edwards and Merve Tokar

If you're curious to hear a little music from our guest Carla Lucero, who we spoke to in our most recent episode, check out E4TT's annual concert of music by women and non-binary composers "Midnight Serenades" on January 25.

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1. Elinor Armer II - Part 3 (00:00:00)

2. You talked a little bit about Persephone earlier and I’d like to circle back to her, because when you deal with mothers and daughters, you do really have to talk about Persephone, in some way or another. So for this project, we had someone setting... (00:00:54)

3. You've had such a distinguished career: you were instrumental in starting the composition department and you've been, in some situations, I think, the lone woman in the room. Can you talk about being a composer, being a woman composer, your career and the (00:02:24)