Eastern Europe has produced many fine women composers, especially during the 20th and 21st centuries, but their names are little known and their works are seldom heard today, particularly in America. This lecture-recital will illuminate a fascinating and important area of music history, featuring works by the 19th-century composer and virtuoso pianist Maria Szymanowska, whose international fame foreshadowed that of her countryman Frédéric Chopin, by Countess Maria Theodora Paulina “Dora” Pejacevic, a pioneering Croatian composer of the early 20th century, and by Grazyna Bacewicz, a Polish composer and violinist of the mid-20th century who worked in a wide variety of genres and was Poland’s second woman composer to capture international attention and acclaim.