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Wild Words of Wild Women Calendars
Wild Words from
Wild Women
Calendars


Women's Wit and Wisdom Calendars
Women's Wit
and Wisdom Calendars




BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN & MUSIC

Women and Music: A History
Women and Music: A History


Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present
Women in Music:
An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present


Women Composers
Women Composers


New Historical Anthology of Music by Women CD
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women CD




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Notable and famous women in music: singers, songwriters, composers, dancers ~

Carmen Amaya
Ivie Anderson

Marian Anderson
Julie Andrews

Adele Astaire
Jane Avril


Spanish Flamenco Dancer Carmen Amaya Performing, Photographic Print
Carmen Amaya,
Photographic Print

Carmen Amaya
b. 11-2-1913; Barcelona, Spain
d. 11-19-1963; California

Flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya performed from the time she was four years old, acted in several films and danced at the White House by invitations from FDR and Truman.


Ivie Anderson
Ivie Anderson

Ivie Anderson
b. 7-10-1905; Gilroy, CA
d. 12-28-1949; LA, CA (complications of asthma)

Singer Ivie Anderson performed with the Duke Ellington Orchestra between 1931-1942, singing such Jazz standards as “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)”, as well as appearing as a singer in the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races.


Marian Anderson, Photographic Print
Marian Anderson, Photographic Print

Marian Anderson
b. 2-27-1897; Philadelphia, PA
d. 4-8-1993; Oregon

Marian Anderson, considered by many to be one of the greatest contraltos ever, gained her first public renown in 1925 when she appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Because of race discrimination in United States Anderson spent the next dozen years touring Europe and South America, where she became a major star. Her concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, was a peak event in raising the national consciousness about race and equality.

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Julie Andrews, Photo
Julie Andrews,
Photo

Julia Andrews
b. 10-1-1935; Walton-on-Thames, England

Julie Andrews is a singer best remembered for her roles in musicals like The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady (stage) and Mary Poppins.


Fred and Adele Astaire, when children, in costume, photographic print
Fred and Adele Astaire
photographic print

Adele Astaire
b. 9-10-1896; Omaha, Nebraska
d. 1-25-1981; Tucson, AZ

The mother of Adele and Frederick Austerlitz dreamed of a brother - sister act for her talented children although little Fred wasn't so thrilled about dance lessons.

After a career on the Broadway and London stage Adele retired from the team in 1932 and Fred went on to dance alone and with other partners.


Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris, 1893, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print
Jane Avril,
Jardin de Paris, 1893,
Giclee Print

Jane Avril (1868-1943) and Louise “La Goulue” Weber (1866-1929) were French ‘Cancan’ dancers whose images, made famous by the paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec reproduced as posters, embodied the seamer side of the European Belle Époque (Fr = Beautiful Era) period that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I.

La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print
“La Goulue” at the
Moulin Rouge,
Giclee Print







“The Galop” from Jacques Offenbach's opera bouffe “Orpheus in the Underworld” is the music most often associated with the “Cancan” which was popular in the dance halls of Paris.


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