Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations - Episode 24: “Songs for a Statue”

www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/"Songs for a Statue” is Episode 24 of the Podcast Series "Women of Science & Music: 30 Celebrations" www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/podcasts/It was released on 21st May 2023 to celebrate Mary Anning’s 224th Birthday!More details here www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/songs-for…-podcast/SPEAKERS:Anya Pearson – Chair, Mary Anning RocksDenise Dutton – SculptorEmma Bernard – Palaeontologist, Curator of Fossil Fish, Natural History MuseumTom Sharpe – Biographer of Mary Anning – “The Fossil Woman” (www.dovecotepress.com/shop/biographi…by-tom-sharpe/)MUSIC:Frances M Lynch “NOT Mary Anning – She sells sea shells (fossils!) on the sea shore” (2017) for mixed voices; Tongue Twister Song by Terry Sullivan – 1908; performed by the composer and singers from ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE – Jenny Miller (Mezzo), Laurence Panter (Tenor), Gwion Thomas (Baritone)Judith Bingham “Mary Anning, a history and a mystery” (2012) for solo voice, gravel and rocks – a study of the famous Victorian palaeontologist; words by Mary Anning, Molly Anning, Alfred Lord Tennyson and many more…; performed by Frances M LynchJudith Weir “I started Early – Took my Dog” from “On the Palmy Beach” (2019) for Soprano, Cello & Piano; words by Emily Dickinson; performed by Frances M Lynch (voice & instruments realised at the keyboard)Winners of the 2022 Mary Anning Children’s Song Competition “A Song for Mary Anning” (2022), produced & arranged by Frances M Lynch & Herbie Clarke: Music and words by Cohen Baulch age 9; Year 3, Newton Poppleford Primary School; Sarah Mirkin age 8; Mabel Slade age 11; Class 1, Hawkchurch Church of England Primary School; Beech Class, Payhembury Primary School: – performed by Mrs Ethelston’s Primary Academy Choir and Cohen Baulch