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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall
In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play "masculine" instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra (MWSO) became the only all-women orchestra in Canadian history. Formed in 1940, the MWSO became the first orchestra to represent Canada in New York City's Carnegie Hall and one of its members also became the first Canadian black woman to play in a symphony in Carnegie Hall. While the MWSO has paved the way for contemporary female musicians, the stories of these women are largely missing from historical records. From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall illuminates these revolutionary stories, including the life of the incredible Ethel Stark, the co-founder and conductor of the MWSO. Ethel's work opened doors of equal opportunity for marginalized groups and played an important role in breaking gender stereotypes in the Canadian music world.
From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall
A book about the first women's symphony orchestra that because the only all-women orchestra in Canada. Formed in 1940, the MWSO became the first orchestra to represent Canada in New York City's Carnegie Hall and one of its members also became the first Canadian black woman to play in a symphony in Carnegie Hall.
The Great Mental Models: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
A cult bestseller in the US, available around the world for the first time, The Great Mental Models introduces the simple tools we all need to see the world clearly. Time and time again, great thinkers like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have credited their success to mental models: simple representations of how the world works that can be applied in a wide array of contexts. Mastering a small number of these concepts enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others don’t, and better anticipate outcomes. The Great Mental Models introduces the most powerful models that anyone can use right away to improve decision making and productivity. In this volume, Shane Parri...
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2
From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish. The second book in the timeless Great Mental Models series. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. Volume 2 of The Great Mental Models series provides a collection of over twenty important concepts from physics, chemistry, and biology in a clear and accessible style...
Statesman of the Piano
Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s. Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and deeply involved in the jazz community in Montreal. When the Second World War broke out he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and entertained the troops in Europe. Near the end of his life Hooper came to prominence for his exceptional career and place in the history of jazz, inspiring an autobiogra...
Komponistinnen
In der Geschichte der klassischen Musik spielen Frauen noch immer kaum eine Rolle – dabei gab es bereits in der Antike die ersten Komponistinnen. Aliette de Laleu erzählt in eindringlichen Porträts ihre Geschichten und bringt uns das Schaffen so unterschiedlicher Persönlichkeiten wie Sappho, Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth oder Kaija Saariaho nahe. Und sie erklärt, warum Komponistinnen oft die ihnen zustehende Anerkennung versagt blieb.
Mozart était une femme. Histoire de la musique classique au féminin
Non, Mozart n’était pas une femme. Mais Mozart aurait pu être une femme : Maria Anna Mozart fut, comme son frère, un prodige de la musique, avant de devoir se marier et de disparaître de la scène. Résultat : personne ne se souvient d’elle. Qui peut se vanter de pouvoir citer ne serait-ce qu’une compositrice ? Connaissez-vous... La flamboyante Hildegarde de Bingen, femme de pouvoir et pionnière de la musique médiévale ? Ou encore Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, protégée de Louis XIV et claveciniste de génie ? D’autres, comme Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn ou Alma Mahler, ont vu leur talent et leur prénom rester dans l’ombre d’un grand homme. Compositrices, instrumentistes, cheffes d’orchestre, fondatrices d’ensembles... nombreuses sont celles qui ont dû renoncer au succès. Pourtant, la musique classique leur doit beaucoup. Et si on réécrivait l’histoire ?
To Be Equals in Our Own Country
“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s fight for enfranchisement, as religious authorities weighed what they stood to gain or lose and politicians showed open disdain during Legislative Assembly debates. Quebec women had to wait until 1940 or longer to cast a ballot. This passionate yet even-handed account is filled with vivid characters and pivotal events on the road to suffrage in the province. It examines Quebec women’s participation in provincial and municipal politics since winning the vote and compares women’s struggle to that in other countries. An astute exploration of suffrage, To Be Equals in Our Own Country treats enfranchisement – and the legal, social, and economic rights that stem from it – as a fundamental question of human rights.
Piano Music by Black Women Composers
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published. Determined search, however, is needed to locate what little data is available on most such composers. Proceeding from a desire to use music of black women composers in her piano performance and teaching, Helen Walker-Hill has dedicated herself to uncovering this material, utilizing secondary sources and numerous archives, conducting interviews with composers, and engaging in voluminous correspondence with individuals and institutions. The result is the most comprehensive catalog...
Sign of the Labrys
Earth was a weird and dire place after the plagues. The few humans who survived could not bear the touch of each other; they lived in the enormous, endless caverns hacked out of the bowels of the earth for the bombs that never came. And on one man rested the hopes of the world, though he did not know it. Sam Sewell only knew he had to journey, despite forbidding perils from the darkness of the past, into the ultimate fastnesses of the unknown to rescue the timeless wisdom of the witch Desponia . . .
