Love of the Sirens: On Composers, Compulsions, and Creations

Have you ever heard about women creators?
For centuries we heard nothing about women creators.
History has perpetuated male poets, writers, composers and painters, as well as conductors, philosophers, critics and historians who have documented the history of the world.
Women, on the other hand, were something of an adornment. They were considered to be the fairer, weaker, and inferior sex, an object to be written about, painted, and talked about. In the collective consciousness women were a...