Women in Music: A Conversation with Vanessa Williams, Rosanne Cash, Renée Fleming, & Jillian Hervey

NYU Steinhardt Dean's Scholar-in-Residence Vanessa Williams hosts Rosanne Cash, Renée Fleming, and Jillian Hervey for an in-depth-conversation about women in music.

These four illustrious artists, representing a remarkable range of diversity of background, genre, and experience, discuss the roles women have — and have not — taken in the worlds of performance, composition, and production; the obstacles they face, and the progress that needs to be made.

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