Women in Music (periodical)
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 female musicians. The publication ran until December 1940. The thirty-seven extant issues were 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 gist of its contents.[1][2]
 Page 1, July 1, 1935 (first issue) courtesy of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Music Division, and The University of Arkansas Press | |
| Managing editor | Frédérique Petrides |
|---|---|
| Categories | Musicology, classical music, women's studies |
| Founder | Frédérique Petrides |
| Year founded | 1 July 1935 |
| First issue | July 1, 1935 |
| Final issue | 1 December 1940 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| OCLC | 15728633 |
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 female conductors, composers, instrumentalists, singers and women-led orchestras. Its scope was not limited to contemporary musicians – it chronicled the activities of female musicians from Ancient Egyptian times to the then present.
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.[3]
Major print media, including music journals, general magazines, and newspapers have cited Women in Music as a primary 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.[4]
"The Women in Music newsletters are the primary source for research done by musicologists on women in music." — Adrienne Fried Block, PhD (1921–2009), musicologist and choral director[5]
Extant issues
Published by “Orchestrette Classique,” 190 East End Ave., New York City
- Volume I July 1, 1935
Oscar Thompson, Rebecca Merit (Merritt), Hubay and Flesch, Ethel Leginska, Henry Holden Huss - Vol. I, No. 2 August 1935
Fadettes, Caroline B. Nichols, Gertrud Hrdliczka, Eva Vale Anderson, Long Beach Woman's Symphony, Carmen Studer - 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 - 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 - Vol. I, No. 5 December 1935
Luisa Tetrazini, Herliczka, Teresa Carreno, Henry T. Finck, Dame Ethel Smyth, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Maud Powell, Jenny Lind - 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 - 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 - Vol. I, No. 8 May 1936
Long Beach (group), Gertrud Herliczka - 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 - Vol. II, No. 2 August 1936
Bembo, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Women's Symphony - Vol. II, No. 3 November 1936
Elizabeth Kuyper, Billboard, Jeannette Scheerer, Gena Branscombe, Jane Evrard - Vol. II, No. 4 January 1937
Vienna Ladies Orchestra, Phil Spitalny, Evelyn (Spitalny), Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, William Durieux, Long Beach (group) - Vol. II, No. 5 February 1937
Georges Enesco, Ellen Stone, Carmelita Ippolito, Frederick Huber - Vol. II, No. 6 March 1937
Jose Iturbi - Vol. II, No. 7 April 1937
Jose Iturbi, British Woman's Symphony Orchestra, Helen Enser, Carmen Studer Weingartner - 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) - 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 - Vol. III, No. 2 September 1937
Albert Roussel, Ebba Sundstrom, Herliczka, The New Yorker, Virginia Short, Chicago Women's Concert Band, Lillian Poenisch - Vol. III, No. 3 October 15, 1937
Anne (or Anna) Mehlig Falk, George Schaun - Vol. III, No. 4 December 1937
Sidney Lanier, Otto Klemperer, Saint Louis Women's Orchestra, Edith Gordon - Vol. III, No. 5 January 1938
Fabien Sevitzsky, Bertha Roth Walburn Clark, Erno Rapee - Vol. III, No. 6 February 1938
Leona May Smith, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Damrosch - Vol. III, No. 7 April 1938
Gertrude Herliczka, Lonny Epstein, Carl Friedberg, Grace Kleinhenn Thompson Edmister, Kirsten Flagstad - 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 - Vol. IV, No. 1 July 1938
Ethel Leginska, Teresa Carreno, Gladys Weige, Woman's Symphony of Chicago, Fanny Arnston-Hassler, Woman's Concert Ensemble - Vol. IV, No. 2 September 1938
Ruth Kemper, Howard Barlow - Vol. IV, No. 3 October 1938
Pauline Juler - Vol. IV, No. 4 December 1938
Nadia 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 - Vol. IV, No. 5 January 1939
Nadia Boulanger, Brico Symphony, Billboard, Eleven Debutantes, Henriette Weber - Vol. IV, No. 6 March 1939
Asger Hamerik, Nadia Boulanger - Vol. IV, No. 7 April 15, 1939
Alicia Hund, Amy Fay, Hetty Turnbull, Albert Stoessel, Louise Angelique Bertin, Paul Creston - Vol. V, No. 1 November 1939
David Diamond - Vol. V, No. 2 December 1939
Izler Solomon, Ruth Haroldson, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, Alexander Richter - Vol. V, No.3 February 1940
Erika Morini, Amy Marcy (Cheney) Beach, Elsa Hilger, Deems Taylor, Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, Drinker Library of Choral Music - Vol. V, No. 4 April 1940
World's Center for Women's Archives, Inc. - Vol. V, No. 5 September 1940
Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra - Vol. VI, No. 1 December 1940
Caroline B. Nichols, Orchestrette Classique, Women in Music[6]
Bibliography
Footnotes
- Groh (1991), p. 5
- Frédérique Petrides Papers
- LePage (1983), pp. 203–204
- Groh (1991), p. 121
- Musicologist and choral director Adrienne Block, PhD, née Fried (1921–2009) (1992); Petrides family letters and papers
- Groh (1991), pps. 125-126
References
- Jan Bell Groh (born 1936) (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.
- Frédérique Petrides Papers, Classmark JPB 83-3, Biography. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. OCLC 35890194.
- Jane Weiner LePage (1983). Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the twentieth Century, Volume II. Metuchen/London: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2082-1.