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Title Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860 / edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 357 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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 : 1830s-1860s 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 1960s 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 1920s ; 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women music patrons -- United States
Music patronage -- United States
Music -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Music.
Music
music (discipline)
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music
Music patronage
Women music patrons
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music Literature.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Locke, Ralph P.
Barr, Cyrilla.
ISBN 0585371865
9780585371863