Every day in March for Women’s History Month CapRadio celebrates Women In Music who brought us to where we are today and the innovators who keep moving music forward. Today's classical spotlight is on ...

As a young girl, Cecile Chaminade experimented by writing piano compositions for her cats, dogs and dolls. She played her first concert at 18 and toured France and England. Her music was so popular in ...

In Monte Carlo last week death came to the most famous woman composer who ever lived. Frail, white-haired, 86-year-old Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more ...

French pianist and composer Cecile Chaminade toured the United States in 1908, greeted by adoring fans—many of whom were women—who were so inspired that they started Chaminade Clubs in their own towns ...

There have never been any great women composers, and few even moderately good ones. Biggest female name in music was the late Frenchwoman Cécile Chaminade. A composer who does not mind being called ...