Women in Music Blog

Recently a friend of mine alerted me to a song cycle called Baby Book. Natasha Lynn Foley and Bethany Cothern are musicians recording Lauren Spavelko's song cycle called Baby Book. When I went to go try to purchase the sheet music for the song cycle, I was directed to this Indiegogo page.  I am putting a link to it here mostly because they mention that they are women musicians interested in producing music about women for women and I think that meshes well with our interest group and that perhaps some libraries might want to know about this work. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/baby-book-feminism#/

http://www.muw.edu/musicbywomen/submissions

In 1903, Dr. Winthrop Sterling, Dean of the Metropolitan College of Music, Elocution and Dramatic Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, had a dream that women music students should have an organization that would bring them together, providing a sense of well-being and guidance. He enlisted the help of his 19-year-old assistant and fellow faculty member, Elizabeth Mathias (later Elizabeth Mathias Fuqua) to establish such an organization. Image courtesy of the Mu Phi Epsilon 1904 Year-Book   Mu Phi Epsilon was to be chartered as a National Music Sorority, the first of its kind in the United States, working for a stronger foothold in the musical world where there could be equal opportunities for both sexes. Thus, the Mu Phi Epsilon Alpha Chapter held its first meeting with thirteen young women on that fateful November 13, 1903 (yes, it was a Friday!). The establishment of the Beta Chapter at the New England Conservatory in Boston soon followed, November 30, 1903.   Imag