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Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860 / edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women music patrons--United States.
- Women music patrons.
- Music patronage--United States.
- Music patronage.
- Music--United States--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 357 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Women patrons and activists since 1860
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Music patronage as a "female-centered cultural process" ; Patronage-and women-in America's musical life : an overview of a changing scene / Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr
- Women and church organs : 1830's-1860's documents with commentary / Steven L. Pinel
- The "grand composers" of the present day : Betty Freeman discusses how she chooses and supports them / Ralph P. Locke
- Women as "keepers of culture" : music clubs, community concert series, and symphony orchestras / Linda Whitesitt
- "The facts of (music club) life" in the 1960's as seen by mother and daughter / Mary Natvig
- Living with music : Isabella Stewart Gardner ; Playing for Mrs. Gardner alone : the violinist Harrison Keller reminisces / Ralph P. Locke
- Premieres of Sibelius and others in the Connecticut Hills : Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel's Norfolk Music Festivals / Pamela J. Perry
- Maria Dehon helps Olga Samaroff and Leopold Stokowski / Geoffrey E. McGillen
- Jeannette Meyer Thurber (1850-1946) : music for a democracy / Emanuel Rubin
- Laura Langford and the Seidl Society : Wagner comes to Brooklyn / Joseph Horowitz
- A style of her own : the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge ; Coolidge on gowns, dedications, and American musical chauvinism / Cyrilla Barr
- Mildred Bliss tells Nadia Boulanger to think of herself for once / Jeanice Brooks
- "As large as she can make it" : the role of Black women activists in music, 1880-1945 / Doris Evans McGinty
- Women patrons and crusaders for modernist music : New York in the 1920's ; The power of social events : Aaron Copland's guest list for a post-concert reception given by Blanche Walton / Carol J. Oja
- Culture, feminism, and the sacred : Sophie Drinker's musical activism / Ruth A. Solie
- Music at the Drinkers' : Claribel Thomson and Alfred Mann recollect ; 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780585371863
- 0585371865
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb32616 hdl
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