Abstract
Composer, performer, educator, and healer, Kay Gardner (b. 1941) has always followed an individual life's path. Though her early career as a flutist seemed to have a traditional script, her growing interest in composition soon combined with her feminist beliefs to guide her into areas of music that had been largely unexplored. Her recording Lavender Jane Loves Women (1973) is considered the first openly Lesbian LP. Her studies of woman-related practices in the music of ancient Greece and India have strongly influenced the content of her works, as has her study of the music of Bali, Mexico, and the Amazon region. She is perhaps best known for her theoretical and compositional work linking music with physical and psychic healing. Her most recent work, Ouroboros, is an oratorio dealing with the stages of a woman's life.
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