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Nadia Boulanger, conducting

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playlist: women who score

Only 2% of the 250 top-grossing films from 2013-2016 were scored by women. Since the Academy Awards began in 1929, only 2 women have won for Best Score.

This list is only a small sampling, and includes women of color and Indigenous women, as well as women identifying as LGBTQ+.

((click each name to listen))

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Guangzhou Opera House, China

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As a young man, Claude Debussy was so self-conscious of his forehead that he grew out his bangs to hide it. One of his friends, Raymond Bonheur, once wrote:

[He had a] powerful forehead with the strange faun-like cast, which he thrust ahead of him like the prow of a ship.

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