Daily Classical Music Post

This March, the Daily Classical Music Post will introduce you to some of the most wonderful music ever composed—and, yes, it will all be by women composers! http://www.pulsoptional.org/jennifer-fitzgerald/…/Pocket.mp3 The American composer Jennifer Fitzgerald (born 1975; died 2007) was only 32 when she died following a long battle with cancer. In her short career, she wrote some fascinating and intriguing music for, as she put it on her website, "unusual instrumental combinations." Part of the reason for this was, as she said, this was "the result of my years as the pianist for pulsoptional, 'North Carolina’s Band of Composers', which boasts the highly unusual instrumentation of oboe, bassoon, violin, two electric guitars, percussion and piano." Jennifer's legacy is preserved on the pulsoptional website ( http://www.pulsoptional.org/jennifer-fitzgerald/ ), and you can hear some excerpts of her work there. I can't remember when I first heard her piece...