Women in Music

Women in Music
Editor Frédérique Petrides
Categories Women, Music
Frequency As many as nine issues published annually during the years 1935-1940
Publisher Frédérique Petrides under the auspices of the Orchestrette Classique
First issue 1935
Final issue 1940
Country United States
Language English

Women in Music was an American newsletter founded in July 1935 by its publisher and editor, Frédérique Petrides, then the conductor of the Orchestrette Classique – an orchestra based in New York made-up of all women musicians. The publication ran until December 1940. The thirty-seven extant issues have been reprinted in the 1991 book by Jan Bell Groh, Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides. The newsletter title Women in Music was coined in 1935 by Petrides's husband, journalist, Peter Petrides to encapsulate the jest of its contents.[1][2]

Contents

History

Women in Music was founded in the summer of 1935 for the purpose of enlightening the public with little-known historical facts and current developments pertaining to women conductors, composers, instrumentalists, singers and women-led orchestras. Its scope was not limited to contemporary musicians – it chronicled the activities of women musicians from Ancient Egyptian times to the then present.

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

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—Adrienne Fried Block, PhD (1921–2009), musicologist and choral director[3]

The publication was sent free-of-charge to newspaper and magazine editors, libraries, music schools, institutions, and individuals in New York and elsewhere. The publication had a circulation of over 2,500.[4]

Major print media, including music journals, general magazines, and newspapers have cited Women in Music as a prime source for opinions, facts, and quotes. Some of the newspapers include The New York Times; The New York Sun; New York World-Telegram; New York Daily News; New York Post; The Baltimore Sun; Chicago Tribune; San Diego Union; Los Angeles Times; Press-Telegram; The Philadelphia Inquirer, and publications that drew articles from Everybody's Weekly syndication.[5]

Extant Women in Music editions

Published by “Orchestrette Classique,” 190 East End Ave., New York City

  1. Volume I July 1, 1935

    Oscar Thompson, Rebecca Merit (Merritt), Hubay and Flesch, Ethel Leginska, Henry Holden Huss

  2. Vol. I, No. 2 August 1935

    Fadettes, Caroline B. Nichols, Gertrud Hrdliczka, Eva Vale Anderson, Long Beach Woman’s Symphony, Carmen Studer

  3. Vol. I, No. 3 September 1935

    Thomas B. Aldrich, Gustave A. Kerker, Musical Mutual Protective Union of New York, Dr. Charles Burney, “Outline of a Prejudice”, Ebba Violette, Irene Sundstrom, Murielle and Portland Women’s Symphony, Nikolai Sokoloff

  4. Vol. I, No. 4 November 1935

    Women’s String Orchestra, Camilla Urso, Lois Wann, Emma Steiner, Hans Kindler, Jeanette Evrard, Sandor Harmati, Woman’s Symphony of Chicago (Chicago Woman’s Symphony Orchestra), Arthur P. Schmidt, Eleanor Warner Everest Freer

  5. Vol. I, No. 5 December 1935

    Luisa Tetrazini, Herliczka, Teresa Carreno, Henry T. Finck, Dame Ethel Smyth, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Maud Powell, Jenny Lind

  6. Vol. I, No. 6. February 1936

    Caroline B. Nichols, Julia Smith, Antonia Brico, New York Women’s Symphony, Harley Hamilton, Woman’s Orchestra of Los Angeles, D. Cesar Cianfoni

  7. Vol. I, No. 7 March 1936

    Sir Henry Wood, Marie Wilson, New York Ladies Ensemble, Musicians’ Union, Atlantic Garden Orchestra, Women’s Little Symphony of Cleveland

  8. Vol. I, No. 8 May 1936

    Long Beach (group), Gertrud Herliczka

  9. Vol. II, No. 1 July 1936

    Stokowski, Girl Scout, Long Beach Woman’s Symphony, Eva Anderson, Pittsburgh Woman’s Symphony, Lady Folkestone, Grace Burrows, British Women’s Symphony Orchestra

  10. Vol. II, No. 2 August 1936

    Bembo, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Women’s Symphony

  11. Vol. II, No. 3 November 1936

    Elizabeth Kuyper, Billboard, Jeannette Scheerer, Gena Branscombe, Jane Evrard

  12. Vol. II, No. 4 January 1937

    Vienna Ladies Orchestra, Phil Spitalny, Evelyn (Spitalny), Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, William Durieux, Long Beach (group)

  13. Vol. II, No. 5 February 1937

    Georges Enesco, Ellen Stone, Carmelita Ippolito, Frederick Huber

  14. Vol. II, No. 6 March 1937

    Jose Iturbi

  15. Vol. II, No. 7 April 1937

    Jose Iturbi, British Woman’s Symphony Orchestra, Helen Enser, Carmen Studer Weingartner

  16. Vol. II, No. 8 June 1937

    Olga Samaroff, National Federation of Music Clubs, Berlin Women’s Orchestra, Elizabeth Kuyper, Mathilde Ernestine, Federal Music Project, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  17. Vol. III, No. 1 July 1937

    William J. Henderson, Caroline B. Nichols, Louis Elson, Ruth Kemper, Commonwealth Women’s Orchestra of Boston (WPA), Nino Marcelli’s San Diego Symphony, Lela Hammer, Woods Symphony Orchestra, Lois Wann, Virginia Payton

  18. Vol. III, No. 2 September 1937

    Albert Roussel, Ebba Sundstrom, Herliczka, The New Yorker, Virginia Short, Chicago Women’s Concert Band, Lillian Poenisch

  19. Vol. III, No. 3 October 15, 1937

    Anne (or Anna) Mehlig Falk, George Schaun

  20. Vol. III, No. 4 December 1937

    Sidney Lanier, Otto Klemperer, Saint Louis Women’s Orchestra, Edith Gordon

  21. Vol. III, No. 5 January 1938

    Fabien Sevitzsky, Bertha Roth Walburn Clark, Erno Rapee

  22. Vol. III, No. 6 February 1938

    Leona May Smith, Nadia Juliette Boulanger, Walter Damrosch

  23. Vol. III, No. 7 April 1938

    Gertrude Herliczka, Lonny Epstein, Carl Friedberg, Grace Kleinhenn Thompson Edmister, Kirsten Flagstad

  24. Vol. III, No. 8 June 1, 1938

    Leopold Stokowski, Hans Kindler, Sidney Lanier, Musicians Union - local 802, Committee for Recognition of Women in the Musical Profession, Musical America, Serge Koussevitzky, Frederick Huber, William J. Henderson

  25. Vol. IV, No. 1 July 1938

    Ethel Leginska, Teresa Carreno, Gladys Weige, Woman’s Symphony of Chicago, Fanny Arnston-Hassler, Woman’s Concert Ensemble

  26. Vol. IV, No. 2 September 1938

    Ruth Kemper, Howard Barlow

  27. Vol. IV, No. 3 October 1938

    Pauline Juler

  28. Vol. IV, No. 4 December 1938Nadia Boulanger, Lonny Epstein, Edgar Carver’s all-girl band, John C. Freund, Marian Anderson, William J. King, The New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs, Mrs. Otto Hahn, Julia Smith
  29. Vol. IV, No. 5 January 1939 Nadia Boulanger, Brico Symphony, Billboard, Eleven Debutantes, Henriette Weber
  30. Vol. IV, No. 6 March 1939

    Asger Hamerik, Nadia Boulanger

  31. Vol. IV, No. 7 April 15, 1939

    Alicia Hund, Amy Fay, Hetty Turnbull, Albert Stoessel, Louise Angelique Bertin, Paul Creston

  32. Vol. V, No. 1 November 1939

    David Diamond

  33. Vol. V, No. 2 December 1939

    Izler Solomon, Ruth Haroldson, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, Alexander Richter

  34. Vol. V, No.3 February 1940

    Erika Morini, Amy Marcy (Cheney) Beach, Elsa Hilger, Deems Taylor, Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, Drinker Library of Choral Music

  35. Vol. V, No. 4 April 1940

    World’s Center for Women’s Archives, Inc.

  36. Vol. V, No. 5 September 1940

    Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra

  37. Vol. VI, No. 1 December 1940

    Caroline B. Nichols, Orchestrette Classique, Women in Music[6]

Bibliography

General

Inline citations

  1. ^ Groh (1991), p. 5
  2. ^ Frédérique Petrides Papers
  3. ^ Musicologist and choral director Adrienne Block, PhD, née Fried (1921–2009) to Frédérique Petrides's daughter, Avra Petrides (1992); Petrides family letters and papers
  4. ^ LePage (1983), pp. 203–204
  5. ^ Groh (1991), p. 121
  6. ^ Groh (1991), pps. 125-126

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