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Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860
- Title
- Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860 / edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Description
- xi, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Music Patronage as a "Female-Centered Cultural Process" / Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr -- 1. Patronage - and Women - in America's Musical Life: An Overview of a Changing Scene / Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr. Vignette A. Women and Church Organs: 1830s-1860s - Documents with Commentary / Stephen L. Pinel. Vignette B. The "Grand Composers" of the Present Day: Betty Freeman Discusses How She Chooses and Supports Them - Interview with Annotations / Ralph P. Locke -- 2. Women as "Keepers of Culture": Music Clubs, Community Concert Series, and Symphony Orchestras / Linda Whitesitt. Vignette C. " The Facts of (Music Club) Life" in the 1960s as Seen by Mother and Daughter / Mary Natvig -- 3. Living with Music: Isabella Stewart Gardner / Ralph P. Locke. Vignette D. Playing for Mrs. Gardner Alone: The Violinist Harrison Keller Reminisces / Ralph P. Locke.
- Vignette E. Premieres of Sibelius and Others in the Connecticut Hills: Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel's Norfolk Music Festivals / Pamela J. Perry. Vignette F. Maria Dehon Helps Olga Samaroff and Leopold Stokowski / Geoffrey E. McGillen -- 4. Jeannette Meyer Thurber (1850-1946): Music for a Democracy / Emanuel Rubin -- 5. Laura Langford and the Seidl Society: Wagner Comes to Brooklyn / Joseph Horowitz -- 6. A Style of Her Own: The Patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge / Cyrilla Barr. Vignette G. Coolidge on Gowns, Dedications, and American Musical Chauvinism / Cyrilla Barr. Vignette H. Mildred Bliss Tells Nadia Boulanger to Think of Herself for Once / Jeanice Brooks -- 7. "As Large as She Can Make It": The Role of Black Women Activists in Music, 1880-1945 / Doris Evans McGinty -- 8. Women Patrons and Crusaders for Modernist Music: New York in the 1920s / Carol J. Oja.
- Vignette I. The Power of Social Events: Aaron Copland's Guest List for a Post-Concert Reception Given by Blanche Walton / Carol J. Oja -- 9. Culture, Feminism, and the Sacred: Sophie Drinker's Musical Activism / Ruth A. Solie. Vignette J. Music at the Drinkers': Claribel Thomson and Alfred Mann Recollect / Ralph P. Locke -- 10. Reflections on Art Music in America, on Stereotypes of the Woman Patron, and on Cha(lle)nges in the Present and Future / Ralph P. Locke.
- ISBN
- 0520083954 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97025716
- OCLC
- ocm37211240
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries