This is a “Guest Post”. I simply found it & decided to share it here because I found the controversy educating me. (That doesn’t mean I agree with views expressed by the author.)
I didn’t seek permission to re-publish. Trust “song of the lark” owner won’t object.
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Lots of people have hobbies like knitting, jogging, or stamp collecting. Because I am the nerdiest nerd to ever nerd, the closest thing I have to a hobby is learning about the history of women in music. It’s a topic that doesn’t get as much press as the old chestnuts like “classical music is dying” or “Stradivari’s secret […]
http://songofthelarkblog.com/2015/09/16/in-which-i-learn-why-there-are-no-great-women-composers/
From Bath to Cork with baby Grace 