Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

This program, guest conducted by Naima Burrs, brings you three very different but very important masterpieces of classical music written in the last century. The first woman English composer to be granted a damehood, Dame Ethel Smyth was a child prodigy, a noted composer, and an important member of the women’s suffrage movement. NatPhil performs the overture to her opera The Boatswain’s Mate, which is based on the 1910 song “the March of Women”....