{"id":2368,"date":"2022-03-22T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:58:26","slug":"the-initiator-received-the-gold-broom-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/the-initiator-received-the-gold-broom-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The initiator received the Gold Broom award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a May day in 2008, <strong>Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong> lay on the sofa at home in the Nacka villa and read the Swedish orchestras&#8217; season program for 2008\u20132009. And became more and more distressed. Where were the works of the female composers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She counted. On Swedish concert stages, only 1.2% were performed with music by female composers from then and now. In other words: the Swedish orchestras regarded female composers as non-existent, almost unplayable. However, there were plenty of composer names such as Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms on the orchestra&#8217;s  music stands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">About Drifted<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/the-initiator-received-the-gold-broom-award\/#KVAST_is_created\" >KVAST is created<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/the-initiator-received-the-gold-broom-award\/#Be_positive\" >Be positive<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"KVAST_is_created\"><\/span>KVAST is created<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the summer of 2008, she gathered a large number of her female composer colleagues. The result: it was decided to start the network <em>Kvinnlig Anhopning av Svenska Tons\u00e4ttare<\/em>, <strong>KVAST<\/strong> (The Swedish Association of Women Composers). At the beginning of 2009, it became an association, which had a great impact both among the concert halls and in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest is Swedish music history. Women&#8217;s music was discovered and played more and more often. A dozen years later, it is almost a rule that female composers are represented in concert programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Be_positive\"><\/span>Be positive<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At a ceremony on March 22 in the <strong>Royal College of Music<\/strong>, Stockholm the association KVAST was able to award the association&#8217;s finest award, <em>Guldkvasten<\/em> (The Gold Broom), to the initiator Karin Rehnqvist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karin Rehnqvist responded in her speech of thanks with a quote she carries with her: &#8220;If possible, be positive&#8221;.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a May day in 2008, Karin Rehnqvist lay on the sofa at home in the Nacka villa and read the Swedish orchestras&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Karin-Rehnqvist_Guldkvasten-2022_2.jpg?fit=1701%2C1093&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79arM-Cc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1775,"url":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/4-on-swedish-top-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":2368,"position":0},"title":"#4 on Swedish top list","author":"admin2","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Swedish magazine for classical music, OPUS, publishes the so-called OPUS list every year in December. \u00a020 people or organizations in Swedish music life as \"everyone made a difference during the past year of music. 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