Women in Music

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First edition of Women in Music, July 1, 1935

Women in Music was an American news bulletin founded in July 1935 by its publisher and editor, Frédérique Petrides , who was then the conductor of the Orchestrette Classique , a New York- based orchestra made up entirely of women. The publication ran until December 1940. The 37 surviving editions were reprinted in 1991 in the book Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides written by Jan Bell Groh . The title Women in Music was coined by Petride's husband, the journalist Peter Petrides.

history

Women in Music was founded in the summer of 1935 with the purpose of informing the public about little-known historical facts and current developments on women conductors, composers, instrumentalists, singers and orchestras led by women. The range of the paper was not limited to contemporary musicians; it recorded the activities of female musicians from ancient Egypt to the present day.

The paper was sent for free to newspaper and magazine editors, libraries, music schools, institutions, and individuals in and outside of New York City. Over 2500 issues were in circulation.

Major print media have used Women in Music as their primary source for opinions, facts and quotes. Including The New York Times , The New York Sun, New York World-Telegram, Daily News , New York Post , The Baltimore Sun , Chicago Tribune , San Diego Union, Los Angeles Times , Press-Telegram, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Everybody's Weekly .

Adrienne Fried Block (1921–2009), a musicologist and choir director, said of Women in Music:

"The Women in Music newsletters are the primary source for research done by musicologists on women in music."

"The Women in Music newsletters are the primary resource for musicologists' research on women in music."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan Bell Groh (1991). Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-218-7 . OCLC 23693230 . Pages 5, 121.
  2. ↑ Frédérique Petrides Papers, Classmark JPB 83-3, Biography . New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. OCLC 35890194 .
  3. ↑ Jane Weiner LePage (1983). Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the twentieth Century, Volume II. Metuchen / London: Scarecrow Press . Page 121. ISBN 978-0-8108-2082-1 .
  4. ^ "Block Adrienne Fried (1992). Jewish Women's Archive.

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