Join API as we speak with opera singer and composer Maureen Broy Papovich who recently created a deeply personal operetta about her grandmother's work with Alice Paul and the fight for gender equality. Broy Papovich’s interest in the women’s movement inspired a new musical work about the National Women’s Party (NWP), the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and her grandmother, Cecil Norton Broy, who lived and worked with Alice Paul on the ERA as political chairman of the NWP. For this project she collaborated with composer Rain Nox to write a set of songs for soprano and piano about the women’s movement, its history, and current status.
Together Broy Papovich and composer Rain Nox collaborated to craft a brand new set of songs for classical soprano and piano. The six songs in the work speak to the history of the Equal Rights Amendment and the National Women’s Party. In this virtual event, we’ll hear about Maureen’s creative process, how her grandmother’s work inspired this new body of work, and about her advocacy for the ERA.
Note: In a future virtual event scheduled for August 18th, just days before she’ll perform the full body of work for the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, we will hear Broy Papovich perform excerpts from the body of work.