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By Musiclibrarianoboecologist - February 05, 2018

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Mu Phi Epsilon

By Wendy Sistrunk - September 22, 2017

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. ...

Dr. Deon Nielsen Price: concert pianist, composer, music professor, mother of five

By Janice - December 05, 2017

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1934, Deon Nielsen was living at Fort Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone around 1946, when her father was stationed there. She was already a pianist and, at age 12, had her first paying job as a ballet school accompanist. She and her family regularly attended concerts at the National Theater. At one, she heard pianist Arthur Rubinstein , and at another, pianist Gyorgy Sandor . "I even slipped backstage during intermission for their autographs," she remembers. Those great pianists inspired her to become a concert pianist herself. Nearly 60 years later, in June 2005 , Deon returned to Panama with her son, Dr. Berkeley Price, a clarinetist--this time to give a concert. "Returning to the site of my early ambition now completes a circle," she told the audience. Ironically, Gyorgy Sandor died later that year. Deon attended high school in San Francisco, and took lessons from C.W. Reid at the San Francisco Academy of Music. She accompa...

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