March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)

Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper. Video by Harry Campbell.

[@sr6154]

Go and vote tomorrow! You owe it to the memory of those brave women

[@colinalston3578]

Still a great choir fifty years after I sang in it. Beautifully done!

[@cvtberlin2583]

Very well done. And what a great message. "Shoulder to shoulder and friend to friend!" We all need to find and keep up women solidarity. Will do this with my choir, too. Lots of love to Glasgow from Berlin

[@o0OHermioneO0o]

What fine and clear voices.☺ The sopranos are excellent.

[@topologyrob]

A very stirring performance of a wonderful composition

[@jm6py4df9m]

Today I red a page about Ethel Smith. What a lively march and beautiful voices! Thank you for uploading this song.

[@pong9000]

In 1971 my mother was singing this, as coached by her circle of radical feminists, while I was being delivered. Yes that was a thing. I was premature so from full dilation while they ran her singing and pushing in a wheelchair to a delivery room, fighting to restrain her and knock her out, I was caught before they lifted her onto a bed, and before the song would have finished, when she lost consciousness.

[@ishtar2848]

Great! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@EarthMama]

Beautiful!

[@mariagraziazollo9180]

Great music! 🌹🌹🌹

[@travellingrhea6856]

Never forgotten this wonderful piece of music since hearing it usd for the Suffragette programme so many years ago.

[@cyranodebeargerac]

The name of the program was “Shoulder to Shoulder.”

[@rainadkins4827]

Yes, and I'd love to find it on here. It was brilliant.

[@1saracen]

Wonderful anthem, Ze, thank you for the words

[@lindavid1975]

Awesome - encore!

[@sussexwoman]

Wow! I did not expect this! The voices of angels!

[@rosiecurtis7066]

Love this. Sad to think women are STILL having to fight. Especially in the music industry. 😮

[@aprilsongstress]

Lovely!

[@schmiedenkrieg]

Katy Cooper! I was looking for Ethel and I have found you too! Love.

[@ruffian25505]

What lovely singing! I am proud an excited to be singing this tomorrow in London tomorrow to protest against the Orange threat to all that is decent and kind in the world.

[@lindavid1975]

What is the Orange threat?

[@Marlene55M]

@@lindavid1975 Probably Trump & all the other misogynist company.

[@jacquelinehourani2018]

Beautiful!!

[@marktaha2701]

Among my favourite songs.Sung it after Brexit!

[@colintaylor5172]

Brilliant

Shout, shout, up with your song! Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking; March, march, swing you along, Wide blows our banner, and hope is waking. Song with its story, dreams with their glory Lo! they call, and glad is their word! Loud and louder it swells, Thunder of freedom, the voice of the Lord! Long, long-we in the past Cowered in dread from the light of heaven, Strong, strong-stand we at last, Fearless in faith and with sight new given. Strength with its beauty, Life with its duty, (Hear the voice, oh hear and obey!) These, these-beckon us on! Open your eyes to the blaze of day. Comrades-ye who have dared First in the battle to strive and sorrow! Scorned, spurned-nought have ye cared, Raising your eyes to a wider morrow, Ways that are weary, days that are dreary, Toil and pain by faith ye have borne; Hail, hail-victors ye stand, Wearing the wreath that the brave have worn! Life, strife-those two are one, Naught can ye win but by faith and daring. On, on-that ye have done But for the work of today preparing. Firm in reliance, laugh a defiance, (Laugh in hope, for sure is the end) March, march-many as one, Shoulder to shoulder and friend to friend.

[@brittizepunkt4838]

💓

[@drgreensteam]

I defy anyone to listen to this and not either feel ready to take on the patriarchy or else to get goosebumps and start sniffing. Or both.

[@hudsoncampos5976]

Bravo

[@MonkeBigHeart]

HELlO MY Name IS Harveer

[@julieconlon9343]

Bravo