5pm March 3rd 2021

Essex 2020 Finale Event

During 2020, electric voice theatre ran a project as part of the Essex 2020 year of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). Our project “Echoes from Essex” is being celebrated alongside the many other events, competitions, exhibitions and

8th March 2021Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Composer & Conductor
BORN 8^th March 1903 South Norwood London

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to hear her music
and find out more about this complex and fascinating musician

Anyone who makes their début as a conductor at the Royal Albert Hall as Avril Coleridge-Taylor did in 193

10th March 2021Amanda Ira Aldridge
Singer  Composer  Teacher
BORN 10^th March 1866 Upper Norwood London

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to hear her music
and find out more about this intriguing musician

Amanda Ira Aldridge was part of a family immersed in the arts, who experienced tragedy in her singing career, became

11th March 2021Elizabeth Tollet 
Scientific Poet
BORN 11^th March 1694

Multi-talented Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754) excelled at mathematics, but is most famous for her powerful poems expressing her resentment at being unjustly excluded from the male world of science.

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for poetry, music, a , ...

14th March 2021Isobel Dunlop
Composer and Violinist
BORN 14th March 1901 Edinburgh

Although Isobel Dunlop died only 46 years ago and her influence on musical life in Scotland was substantial, there is a dearth of information about her and her scores are equally elusive. The picture above represents her as a musician b

16th March 2021Caroline Herschel
Astronomer
BORN 16^th March 1750 Hanover Germany

Frances M Lynch as Caroline Herschel

Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) is celebrated for being the first woman to discover a comet, but she is also important for playing a crucial role in the astronomical and musical careers of her brother W

7.45pm March 17th 2021

Leyton History Society

Gulielma Lister (1860-1949) – The Queen of Slime Moulds

Gulielma Lister

A zoom talk & performance event

Dr Patricia Fara – Science Historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Frances M Lynch – Singer and Composer, electric voice theatre
Dr Gothami , ...

19th March 2021Dame Elizabeth Maconchy
Composer
BORN 19th March 1907 Broxbourne Hertfordshire

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to hear our recording of one of her songs for female voices
and to find out more about this most important British/Irish Composer
Her music is some of the most beautifully crafted we’ve come , ...

29th March 2021 Evelyn Baxter
Ornithologist
BORN 29th March 1879 Fife Scotland

Tramping around every part of Scotland, Evelyn Baxter and her friend, Leonora Rintoul, are recognised as the foremost Scottish ornithologists of their day. The unique data they noted and collected was supplemented by accounts from others, a