Women in Music
Vorlage:Infobox journal Vorlage:Italic title Women in Music was a newsletter edited by Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) the conductor of the Orchestrette Classique, an orchestra based in New York made-up of all women musicians. The publication ran from July 1935 to Dec 1940. The thirty-seven extant issues have been reprinted in the 1991 book by Jan Bell Groh (1936- ) Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides[1]
While serving as music director of the Orchestrette Classique, Petrides concurrently, with the help of her journalist husband, Peter Petrides (1896–1978), edited and published the Women in Music newsletters.[2] The only music periodical of its kind, it chronicled the activities of women musicians from Ancient Egypt to the then present. The publication had a circulation of over 2,500.[3]
“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 [4]
Editor and publisher, Frédérique Petrides
Frédérique Petrides was a Belgian-American conductor, who, as founder and conductor of the Orchestrette Classique (1932–1943) premiered works by such composers as Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, David Diamond and Ralph Vaughan Williams, in Carnegie Chamber Music Hall (now Weill Recital Hall).[5][6][7]
In Manhattan, Ms. Petrides also founded the West Side Community Concerts, the Carl Schurz Park concert series, the Student Symphony Society; and the Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra in Tarrytown, New York.[8]
Petrides, on Women in Music
Writing in Volume VI, No. 1 of Women in Music, December 1940, she had this to say:
"Another source of gratification to the Orchestrette [Classique,] is the educational work undertaken and carried consistently through Women in Music, its own publication.
Women in Music was started in the summer of 1935 for the purpose of acquainting its readers with little known historical facts, pertaining to women conductors, instrumentalists and orchestras. And, with current developments in this special field. It is sent free of charge to newspaper and magazine editors, to libraries, to music schools, institutions and to individuals in New York and elsewhere. It is the first and only publication of its kind in music journalism. Its circulation averages about 2500 copies per issue.
Has the publication succeeded in attracting the attention of the public in the field...it has attempted to cover? Who knows! Nevertheless, let it be remarked here that its subject matter has often found its way into the columns of many newspapers and magazines from coast to coast.
Excluding the various music or general magazines in New York and elsewhere which have quoted from Women in Music, here is a partial list of newspapers which have used or quoted subject matter from the same source: The New York Times; New York Sun; New York World-Telegram; New York Daily News; New York Post; Baltimore Sun; Chicago Tribune; San Diego Union; Los Angeles Times; Long Beach Press-Telegram (California); the Philadelphia Enquirer, and those publications which use its syndicated Everybody’s Weekly".[9]
A name adopted by many
The title Women in Music was coined in 1935 by Petrides's husband and publicist, Peter Petrides to encapsulate the contents of the newsletters.[10][11][12] But these days, if googling Women in Music you will be rewarded with close to 800,000 entries representing organizations, newsletters, festivals, books etc. using the name (for example, Women in Music, Inc.,founded in 1985 and composed of record company executives, agents, managers and musicians.)
Extant Women in Music editions
Published by “Orchestrette Classique”, 190 East End Ave., New York City
- Volume 1 July 1, 1935
Related names: Oscar Thompson, Rebecca Merit (Merritt), Hubay and Flesch, Ethel Leginska, Henry Holden Huss
- Vol.1. No.2 August 1935
Related names: Fadettes, Caroline B. Nichols, Gertrud Hrdliczka, Eva Vale Anderson, Long Beach Woman’s Symphony, Carmen Studer
- Vol. 1. No. 3 September 1935
Related names/titles: 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. 1. 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. 1. No. 5 December 1935
Luisa Tetrazini, Herliczka, Teresa Carreno, Henry T. Finck, Dame Ethel Smyth, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Maud Powell, Jenny Lind
- Vol. 1. No. 6. February 1936
Related names: Caroline B. Nichols, Julia Smith, Antonia Brico, New York Women’s Symphony, Harley Hamilton, Woman’s Orchestra of Los Angeles, D. Cesar Cianfoni
- Vol. 1 No. 7 March 1936
Related names: Sir Henry Wood, Marie Wilson, New York Ladies Ensemble, Musicians’ Union, Atlantic Garden Orchestra, Women’s Little Symphony of Cleveland
- Vol. 1 No. 8 May 1936
Related names: Long Beach (group), Gertrud Herliczka
- Vol. II, No. 1 July 1936
Related names: 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
Related names: Bembo, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Women’s Symphony
- Vol. II, No. 3 November 1936
Related names: Elizabeth Kuyper, Billboard, Jeannette Scheerer, Gena Branscombe, Jane Evrard
- Vol. II, No. 4 January 1937
Related names: Vienna Ladies Orchestra, Phil Spitalny, Evelyn (Spitalny), Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, William Durieux, Long Beach (group)
- Vol. II, No. 5 February 1937
Related names: Georges Enesco, Ellen Stone, Carmelita Ippolito, Frederick Huber
- Vol. II, No. 6 March 1937
Related names: Jose Iturbi
- Vol. II, No. 7 April 1937
Related names: Jose Iturbi, British Woman’s Symphony Orchestra, Helen Enser, Carmen Studer Weingartner
- Vol. II, No. 8 June 1937
Related names: 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
Related names: 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
Related names: Albert Roussel, Ebba Sundstrom, Herliczka, The New Yorker, Virginia Short, Chicago Women’s Concert Band, Lillian Poenisch
- Vol. III, No. 3 October 15, 1937
Related names: Anne (or Anna) Mehlig Falk, George Schaun
- Vol. III, No. 4 December 1937
Related names: Sidney Lanier, Otto Klemperer, Saint Louis Women’s Orchestra, Edith Gordon
- Vol. III, No. 5 January 1938
Related names: Fabien Sevitzsky, Bertha Roth Walburn Clark, Erno Rapee
- Vol. III, No. 6 February 1938
Related names: Leona May Smith, Nadia Juliette Boulanger, Walter Damrosch
- Vol. III, No. 7 April 1938
Related names: Gertrude Herliczka, Lonny Epstein, Carl Friedberg, Grace Kleinhenn Thompson Edmister, Kirsten Flagstad
- Vol. III, No. 8 June 1, 1938
Related names: 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
Related names: Ethel Leginska, Teresa Carreno, Gladys Weige, Woman’s Symphony of Chicago, Fanny Arnston - Hassler, Woman’s Concert Ensemble
- Vol. IV, No. 2 September 1938
Related names: Ruth Kemper, Howard Barlow
- Vol. IV, No. 3 October 1938
Related names: Pauline Juler
- Vol. IV, No. 4 December 1938
Related names: 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
Related names: Nadia Boulanger, Brico Symphony, Billboard, Eleven Debutantes, Henriette Weber
- Vol. IV, No. 6 March 1939
Related names: 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
Relared names: David Diamond
- Vol. V, No. 2 December 1939
Related names: Izler Solomon, Ruth Haroldson, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, Alexander Richter
- Vol. V, No.3 February 1940
Related names: Erika Morini, Amy Marcy (Cheney) Beach, Elsa Hilger, Deems Taylor, Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, Drinker Library of Choral Music
- Vol. V, No. 4 April 1940
Relared names: World’s Center for Women’s Archives, Inc.
- Vol. V, No. 5 September 1940
Related news: Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra
- Vol. VI, No. 1 December 1940
Related names: Caroline B. Nichols, Orchestrette Classique, Women in Music[13]
Jan Bell Groh
Ms. Groh, author and editor of Evening the Score: Women in Music and The Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, which contains and details the thirty-seven extant issues of the Women in Music newsletters, received her bachelor's degree from Wichita State University and her master's from the University of Arkansas. She began her career as a professional singer and conducted childrens choirs in the Long Beach, California school district. She joined the University of Arkansas music faculty in 1966. In 1986 she became the Assistant to the Dean in the College of Education and conducted the [[Fayetteville Unitarian Universalist Choir]] for many years. Groh wrote and lectured extensively on women in music. Now retired, she lives with her husband Dr. Jack C. Groh in Fayetteville, Arkansas.[14]
In 1992, Ms. Groh's book, Evening the Score received the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.[15]
Photos, and guide to papers
Frédérique Petrides Photos New York Public Library
Frédérique Petrides Papers New York Public Library
References
- ↑ Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville (1991)
- ↑ Jan Bell Groh 1936– ), Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, The University of Arkansas Press, p. 5 Fayetteville (1991)
- ↑ Jane Weiner LePage (1931–2008 ), Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the twentieth Century, Volume ii, pps. 203-204, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey and London (1983)
- ↑ Musicologist and choral director Adrienne Block, PhD, Vorlage:Linktext Fried (1921–2009) to Frédérique Petrides's daughter, Avra Petrides (1992); Petrides family letters and papers (to soon be available at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C).
- ↑ Carnegie Hall, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage, Oct. 13 2009 8 PM Notes on the Program, Samuel Barber (1913-1981) Adagio for Strings
- ↑ Jane Weiner LePage (1931–2008), Women composers, conductors, and musicians of the twentieth Century, Volume ii, p. 199 Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey and London (1983)
- ↑ Women in Music, An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present Edited by Carol Neuls-Bates p.261 Harper & Row, Publishers, New York (1982)
- ↑ Jane Weiner LePage 1931]]–[2008), Women composers, conductors, and musicians of the twentieth Century, Volume ii, pps. 214-219 Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey and London (1983)
- ↑ Jan Bell Groh (1936– ), Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, University of Arkansas Press, p. 121 Fayetteville (1991)
- ↑ Jan Bell Groh Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, The University of Atkansas Press, p. 5 Fayetteville
- ↑ Library of Congress
- ↑ Frédérique Petrides Papers, Classmark JPB 83-3, Biography, Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
- ↑ Jan Bell Groh (1936– ), Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, The University of Arkansas Press, pps. 25-126 Fayetteville (1991)
- ↑ Jan Bell Groh (1936- ) Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides, The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville (1991)
- ↑ Gustavus Myers Center for The Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America