Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
How to Be a Woman a child and feels she should not be obligated to have another when she has a choice in the matter. She brings up a point that, "...ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world" (176). Moran, while at the abortion clinic, has an inkling that even the staff have a stigma against terminating a pregnancy. Moran is quick to say that she knows she made the rational decision in her situation. In "How to Be a Woman", Moran calls for a fifth wave of feminism to rise up. Moran