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464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Women Composers - Women in Music

Survey was done in 2020 to see on an average year how many orchestral concerts worldwide were playing music that was composed by women. Survey surveyed 15 orchestras worldwide who did more than 1,500 concerts and did 4,000 pieces. What it comes out is 8.2%. So only 142 of the pieces were composed by female composers. But certainly there should be more contemporary ones, which still aren't. The problem is, I suppose, is that orchestras tend to play classical music. And almost all past composers were men.

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