Gena Branscombe Quote

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I will be featuring quotes from women composers about their journey, their perceptions of being a woman composer and how the world perceives their works.  Enjoy!   I start with Miss Branscombe, of course.  



 “Composers are people born with some sort of sensitive inner mechanism that picks up sounds – vibrations – which other people do not hear.

 Composers feel that there is a Realm of Music, a place where it exists in its perfection, and that they can tune in to it, as it were.

Composers feel that they’re just channels, humanly speaking, through which the music flows. And the truly great composers are those born with a mechanism so good that they hear more clearly than lesser composers.”

And the truly great composers are those born with a mechanism so good that they hear more clearly than lesser composers.”


Gena Branscombe speech presented at Beta Sigma Phi circa 1957


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