Programme note

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“If women are invisible, then it doesn't really matter how important they are, because in the public consciousness they don't exist.” 

 

— Dr Amanda Foreman, Historian

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Amplification

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The piece incorporates some spoken elements, so the violins and viola should be amplified with pickups that will amplify both the instrument and the performer's voice. The cello should have a pickup or microphone, and the cellist should have a second, separate microphone for their spoken part.