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Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860

Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page ix)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION: Music Patronage as a "Female-Centered Cultural Process" (Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr, page 1)
  • I. Patronage-and Women-in America's Musical Life: An Overview of a Changing Scene (Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr, page 24)
    • VIGNETTE A. Women and Church Organs: 1830s-1860s (Documents with Commentary by Stephen L. Pinel, page 54)
    • VIGNETTE B. The "Grand Composers" of the Present Day: Betty Freeman Discusses How She Chooses and Supports Them (Interview with Annotations by Ralph P. Locke, page 59)
  • 2. Women as "Keepers of Culture": Music Clubs, Community Concert Series, and Symphony Orchestras (Linda Whitesitt, page 65)
    • VIGNETTE C. "The Facts of (Music Club) Life" in the 1960s as Seen by Mother and Daughter (Mary Natvig, page 87)
  • 3. Living with Music: Isabella Stewart Gardner (Ralph P. Locke, page 90)
    • VIGNETTE D. Playing for Mrs. Gardner Alone: The Violinist Harrison Keller Reminisces (Annotated by Ralph P. Locke, page 122)
    • VIGNETTE E. Premieres of Sibelius and Others in the Connecticut Hills: Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel's Norfolk Music Festivals (Pamela J. Perry, page 124)
    • VIGNETTE F. Maria Dehon Helps Olga Samaroff and Leopold Stokowski (Geoffrey E. McGillen, page 129)
  • 4. Jeannette Meyer Thurber (1850-1946): Music for a Democracy (Emanuel Rubin, page 134)
  • 5. Laura Langford and the Seidl Society: Wagner Comes to Brooklyn (Joseph Horowitz, page 164)
  • 6. A Style of Her Own: The Patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (Cyrilla Barr, page 185)
    • VIGNETTE G. Coolidge on Gowns, Dedications, and American Musical Chauvinism (Annotated by Cyrilla Barr, page 204)
    • VIGNETTE H. Mildred Bliss Tells Nadia Boulanger to Think of Herself for Once (Annotated by Jeanice Brooks, page 209)
  • 7. "As Large as She Can Make It": The Role of Black Women Activists in Music, 1880-1945 (Doris Evans McGinty, page 214)
  • 8. Women Patrons and Crusaders for Modernist Music: New York in the 1920s (Carol J. Oja, page 237)
    • VIGNETTE I. The Power of Social Events: Aaron Copland's Guest List for a Post-Concert Reception Given by Blanche Walton (Annotated by Carol J. Oja, page 262)
  • 9. Culture, Feminism, and the Sacred: Sophie Drinker's Musical Activism (Ruth A. Solie, page 266)
    • VIGNETTE J. Music at the Drinkers': Claribel Thomson and Alfred Mann Recollect (Annotated by Ralph P. Locke, page 290)
  • 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, page 295)
  • CONTRIBUTORS (page 337)
  • INDEX (page 341)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 104.5 (Dec. 1999): 1696-1697 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649432
AM 17.2 (Summer, 1999): 216-219 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3052716
NOT 56.1 (Sep. 1999): 109-111 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900477
SIG 26.1 (Autumn, 2000): 324-328 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175407
MT 139.1864 (Autumn, 1998): 66 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1003477
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Published: c1997
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520083950 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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