The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester features the Salaff Quartet, whose members are all part of the RPO and have performed on our series both individually and as SCMR’s ambassadors at many outreach concerts over the last few years. The Salaff Quartet will lead the audience on a galactic journey through the music of Palestrina, Arvo Pärt, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Adolphus Hailstork, Satie and Borodin.
SCMR will also be filming and broadcasting this concert with a special camera, the Titan 11K Cinematic Camera, that films in Virtual Reality, which will give the viewer an interactive experience.
The Saturday Evening Post: What do people often misunderstand about “first women” in historically male-dominated fields like medicine? How does Elizabath Blackwell fit into or clash with modern conceptions of feminism?
Janice P. Nimura: We tend to want our heroines to be a combination of saint and Amazon: graceful warriors whose iconic achievements instantly change the world. Elizabeth Blackwell like all “first women,” when you look closely is a more complicated figure. She was out of step with the emerging women’s rights movement, and often disdainful of other women. She strove to be an example to women everywhere, but she wasn’t necessarily interested in collaborating with them. And once she had achieved her goal, she continued to struggle in many ways.
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February 3, 2021 at 6:06 am
You may be familiar with the name Elizabeth Blackwell, usually followed by the phrase ‘first woman doctor’. Born in Bristol in the early 19th century, she later became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. Maybe you had a picture book about her as a child – an inspirational tale for girls. Or maybe you’ve never heard of her at all.
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The nine Blackwell siblings were the children of a paradox. Their father Samuel, a Dissenter from the Church of England, was both a sugar refiner and an abolitionist, a man who profited from a commodity that depended on enslaved labour – which he abhorred.
National Women Physician Day 2021: 6 Inspiring Female Trailblazers In Medicine
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Today, more and more women are entering the health sector
On National Women Physicians Day, have a look at six women who made their mark in medicine
Feb. 3 marks National Women Physicians Day, a day to celebrate and honor the many women doctors in the country. It falls on the birthday of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. Elizabeth Blackwell.
This year marks Blackwell s 200th
birth anniversary and it is just the fourth National Women Physicians Day. As the first woman to earn a medical degree from an American school, Blackwell did face a lot of rejection in her time. According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (