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Karen DeCrow

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with ‘Ulysses,’ but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button – ’59 cents.’ Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, ‘What does ’59 cents’ mean?’ One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

I was running for mayor of Syracuse – the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term ‘conservation’ was hardly on the tip of every citizen’s tongue.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in ‘Billy Budd,’ as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

– Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don’t have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

– Karen DeCrow

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