What you'll learn

• 1 (01:06) **The Discovery That Changed Everything** - Classical singer Gabriella Di Laccio describes how she grew up idolizing male composers like Mozart and Beethoven without ever questioning why women were absent from the canon.
• 2 (07:04) **Building Donne: From Website to Movement** - After a year of research and sharing stories with her husband, he challenged her to stop talking and start doing, leading her to create a website listing 4,000 women composers.
• 3 (09:32) **Why We Don't Know About Women Composers** - Di Laccio explains the historical forces that erased women from music history, from denied access to education to deliberate archival neglect.
• 4 (12:20) **The Emotional Turning Point** - Di Laccio thought her website would be a one-time contribution, but messages from women composers around the world changed her life.
• 5 (17:02) **Ilse Weber: A Lullaby Buried Underground** - Di Laccio shares the story of a Czech Jewish composer who wrote songs for children in the Theresienstadt ghetto during WWII, whose husband buried her compositions before they were sent to Auschwitz.
• 6 (20:11) **Mariana Martinez and the Practical Barriers** - Di Laccio explains that even when women composers like Mariana Martinez (who played with Mozart) are rediscovered, their music remains unheard due to a lack of publication and recording.
• 7 (22:14) **Florence Price: A Rediscovered Symphony** - Di Laccio tells the story of the first African American woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra, whose manuscripts were found in an abandoned house in 2009.

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