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Page 8/What She Wants/September, 1979

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Izquierda and Cleveland Women's Choir

By Deb Adler

What better way to start out the fall than with some old friends and familiar faces? Join us as Oven Productions presents Izquierda (with former Clevelander June Adams) and the Cleveland Women's Choir on Friday, October 5, 8:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights.

Izquierda (pronounced "ease-kay-Air-the" -meaning "left" in Spanish) is a group of four women from Oregon who are well known to Cleveland women and to women's audiences across the country for their "innovative jazz form that emphasizes vocal harmonies...accompanied by piano, flute, guitar, and percussion". They appeared in Cleveland for the Goldflower Defense Fund Benefit and have performed three consecutive years at the National Women's Music Festival in Champaign, II-. linois, and two years at the Michigan Women's Music Festival. Embarking on their first national tour in the fall of 1979, they will be traveling the country, treating audiences to their lively and original vocal style and promoting their recently released first album, Quiet Thunder (see review, August 1979 WSW).

The women of Izquierda are Izetta Smith, Kristen Aspen, Naomi Martinez Littlebear, who write most of the group's music, and June Adams. Their backgrounds and experiences are diversified and include organizing, composing and arranging for a women's choir; acting and directing with the Storefront Theatre; cultural work in Oregon; and

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many years of performing as vocalists and instrumentalists.

June Adams was member of Cleveland's women's community for several years and while here, she performed often as a soloist and with other local musicians. She was a valuable member of the Oven Productions staff, devoting herself to producing concerts and co-ordinating Oven events. Before leaving for Portland last winter, she was a featured performer with Betsy Reeves, another Cleveland musician, in Oven's Fourth Annual Variety Show, for which they organized the Cleveland Women's Choir.

Inspired by their work with June and Betsy, the Choir has remained together, joined by several new women, to share skills in arranging, conducting, accompaniment, and interest in singing together. Some members have a formal background in music, others have little or none-but all share a desire to sing women's music. It is that bond that has brought them together as a group and led to several successful local appearances (see article on Cleveland Women's Choir). Their appearance with Izquierda is bound to be a memorable one!

Don't miss an evening of Cleveland women on stage! Join us with Izquierda-a good time will be had by all!

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More About Cleveland Women's Choir

By Lisa Rainsong

The Cleveland Women's Choir is a group of 12 to 15 women who perform feminist music and songs by local women songwriters. We sing music in three, four, and five parts, often unaccompanied, and have performed this summer at such events as the Hessler and Coventry Road Fairs and the Cleveland Women Take Back the Night march.

The choir first came together in January to perform in Oven Productions' Fourth Annual Variety Show. For many of us, it was the first time in years that we'd had a chance to sing in a choir, and it was also an opportunity to sing women's music. Besides singing, choir members are encouraged to try writing, arranging, teaching, and conducting music

Clio's Musings

September, 1853, Cleveland, Ohio: Lucretia Mott presided over the Annual Meeting of the Women's Rights Convention. The meetings had been moved to Cleveland from Syracuse, New York, because mobs there stormed the evening sessions, hissing, stamping, and screaming from the gallery. In Cleveland the proceedings were concluded peacefully.

In order to discover more about the Convention, Clio investigated the Cleveland Plain Dealer of September, 1853 (on microfilm at the Western Reserve Historical Society). In an article entitled "The Humbug of Women's Rights," the author referred to "the ridiculous farce recently enacted in New York". The people of the Convention were referred to as "male-women, female-men, and hybrids; engaged in the titanic task of remodeling the social structure...." The author also characterized these people as "simply ambitious amazons, and

for the choir.

The choir plans to continue performing this fall. We have been asked to sing with the Izquierda Ensemble when Oven Productions brings them to Cleveland on October 5. We also have been invited to sing for the Akron NOW chapter and at a women's music night at Genesis Restaurant. We would like to sing at feminist events and other places where we can reach out to women with our music.

The choir always welcomes new members. It isn't necessary to read music, and we will help new members catch up on the songs that the choir already knows. Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings at 7:30. For more information on joining the choir or having us sing at a particular event, please call Lisa Rainsong at 371-0483.

By Paula A. Copestick

restless, visionary, notoriety-seeking men”. Further search revealed no explicit mention of a Women's Rights Convention held in Cleveland. However, an article entitled "Woman in the Pulpit" (September 14, 1853) printed a sermon given by Antoinette Brown in Metropolitan Hall to one of the largest numbers of people ever gathered there. Among the listeners were "Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, C. C. Burleigh (radiant with glossy curls), Horace Greeley, etc...." The author of this article described the "Reverend Lady" Brown as "dressed in a rich, black-figured silk dress, long skirts, and around her neck hung a heavy gold chain". The author indulged further: "Miss Brown is a rather pretty woman; and if we be permitted to judge of such delicate manners, we should say is the belle of her co-workers upon the temperance platform. She is (continued on page 10)

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