PERFORMANCE: Scoring Suffrage

Lecture, violin and piano recital with Claudia Tobin, Ruth Palmer and Alessio Enea

Friday, September 29, 2023. At 6.00 p.m.

part of PALACE WOMEN: OLTRARNO AND BEYOND.

Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. Palazzo Adami Lami, Lungarno Guicciardini 17 – Florence

How did music score and underscore the swell of women’s increasing liberties at the turn of the twentieth century? Writer and curator Claudia Tobin, with violinist Ruth Palmer and pianist Alessio Enea, set out to uncover the musical sisterhood between a network of European women artists, writers and music critics who took inspiration from Florence, including suffragette composer Dame Ethel Smyth, her friend the writer and activist Vernon Lee frequented Villa San Francesco di Paola. Presented at the Lyceum in Florence, of which these women were members, this event is part of a research grant that connects archives in the UK and Florence, including at the Villa I Tatti Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies, Lyceum Club archive, the British Institute of Florence, Somerville College Oxford and the British Library in the UK.

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