Ladies of Musical Note

The first female composer was Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) a nun who lived during the middle ages, has long been known as a mystic and...

Women’s music-making up to 1850 was mainly secular and centered on the home. Generally regarded as a feminine “accomplishment,” music was co...

Dolly Broadhurst See A Musical Biography by John Rowe Parker Georgina Oldmixon In a male-dominated profession, singer-actress Georgina ...

Affected not only by changes in the structure of American musical life but by the upheavals of two World Wars and the cataclysm of the Depre...

THE DARLING SAXOPHONE FOUR This all-female saxophone quartet was managed by Eva Darling. Like the Schuster Sisters, they played and endorse...

IVY BENSON Ivy Benson Ivy was born in Yorkshire, England in 1913 and began playing piano when she was five. A child prodigy, she entert...

LIL ARMSTRONG ALL-GIRL BAND VI BURNSIDE COMBO Pauline Brady on drums, Flo Dryer on trumpet, Vi Burnside on tenor saxophone, Edna Smith on...