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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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Women in Music Posters “H...-”
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Notable and famous women in music: singers, songwriters, composers, dancers -

Adelaide Hall
Mata Hari
Hatto
June Havoc
Paloma Herrera

Hildegarde
Harriet Hoctor
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Marilyn Horne

Whitney Houston
Kathleen Howard
Doris Humphrey
Alberta Hunter


Adelaide Hall American Born British Adopted, Giclee Print
Adelaide Hall,
Giclee Print

Adelaide Hall
b. 10-20-1901; Brooklyn
d. 11-7-1993; London

Adelaide Hall, who was taught to sing by her father, worked in black musical shows from the chorus of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) to Blackbirds of 1928, with the song “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby”.

Hall lived in Europe where opportunities for black performers were more available, after the Blackbirds tour of Europe, settling in England. She had a radio show and appeared on stage and in films and nightclubs. She made her last recording at age 90 in 1991.

Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall


Mata Hari, Dutch-Born Exotic Dancer and Spy, Giclee Print
Mata Hari, Dutch-Born Exotic Dancer and Spy, Giclee Print


Mata Hari
née Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
b. 8-7-1876; The Netherlands
d. 10-15-1917; France by firing squad

Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle, a Dutch born exotic dancer and courtesan convicted as a German WWI spy by the French.

The Germans thought her ineffectual and it seems now that the French demonized her to distract the public from the battlefield losses. The name “Mata Hari” became synomous with ‘femme fatale’, French for “deadly women”, a woman whose irresistible charms “lead men astray.” Other examples of femme fatales: Eve, Delilah, Salome, Cleopatra.

Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari


Hatto (Marguerite Jeanne Frere) French Soprano in the Role of Brunnhilde, Photographic Print
Hatto in the
Role of Brunnhilde,
Photographic Print

Jane Hatto
née Marguerite Jeanne Frere
1879-1958; France

Soprano Jane Hatto made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1899 as Brunehild in Reyer's Sigurd.

Siegfried posters


June Havoc, B&W Phoot
June Havoc,
B&W Photo

June Havoc
née Ellen Evangeline Hovick
b. 11-8-1913; Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dancer, singer, actress, writer and theatre director June Havoc was the younger sister of the burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. She appeared in many musicals, the most notable 42nd St.

Early Havoc by June Havoc


Paloma Herrera Art Print
Paloma Herrera
Art Print

Paloma Herrera
b. 12-21-1975; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paloma Herrera is a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.


Singer Hildegarde, 27, CBS Radio Star Singing "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup", Photographic Print
Singer Hildegarde, 27,
Photographic Print

Hildegarde
née Hildegarde Loretta Sell
b. 2-1-1906; Adell, WI
d. 7-29-2005; New York

The cabaret singer known as Hildegarde is best remembered for her signature song “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup .


Harriet Hoctor and Fred Astaire Dancing Together in Publicity Still from Film "Shall We Dance", Photographic Print
Harriet Hoctor
Photographic Print

Harriet Hoctor
b. 9-25-1905; Hoosick Falls, NY
d. 6-9-1977; Virginia

Harriet Hoctor was ballerina and performed as a dancer in a number 1930 era Hollywood movies.

Shall We Dance (1937), VHS (opening ballet sequence)


Billie Holiday Poster
Billie Holiday
Lady Day, 1915-1959
Giant Poster

Billie Holiday
née Eleanora Fagan
b. 4-7-1915; Philadelphia, PA
d. 7-17-1959

Billie Holiday, nicknamed “Lady Day”, was a jazz singer and songwriter, manipulating phrasing and tempo with her voice. Holiday took her stage name from actress Billie Dove.

A statue of jazz singer Billie Holiday is located at the corner of Lafayette & Pennsylvania Ave, Baltimore, MD.


Lena Horne, Photo
Lena Horne,
Photo

Lena Horne
b. 6-30-1917; Brooklyn
d. 5-9-2010; NYC

Lena Horne, a singer and actress, has recorded and performed alone and with notables such as Duke Ellington. Horne's career spanned from 1933 as a member of the Cotton Club chorus line, through film, TV, nightclubs, concerts and recording to 2000. Lena Horne was also a civil rights activist working with Eleanor Roosevelt and Medgar Evers.

An Evening with Lena Horne, DVD


Marilyn Horne Tebaldi Gioconda London Photo Print Ad
Marilyn Horne
London Photo
Print Ad

Marilyn Horne
b. 1-16-1934; Bradford, PA

Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne has been called “probably the greatest singer in the world” (Opera News, 1981).


Whitney Houston, Rolling Stone no. 658, June 1993, Phtographic Print
Whitney Houston,
Rolling Stone no. 658,
June 1993,
Phtographic Print

Whitney Houston
b. 8-9-1963; Newark, NJ

Whitney Houston is noted as one of the best selling singers in the world with over 200 million albums and singles.


Kathleen Howard, Print
Kathleen Howard,
Print

Kathleen Howard
b. 7-27-1885; Canada (raised in Buffalo, NY)
d. 4-15-1956; Hollywood

Kathleen Howard was a mezzo-soprano opera singer, magazine editor, and movie character actress during the mid-1930s through the 1940s.

Memorable roles for Kathleen Howard include Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera (1918) and as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934).

Confessions of an Opera Singer


Harriet Hoctor and Fred Astaire Dancing Together in Publicity Still from Film "Shall We Dance", Photographic Print
Doris Humphrey:
An Artist First

(no commercially available image)

Doris Humphrey
b. 10-17-1895; Oak Park, IL
d. 12-29-1958; Virginia

Doris Humphrey, a second generation modern dance pioneer, opened her own dance studio at age 19. Her dances are noted for “the intricacies of large groups, and her emphasis on sculptural shapes.”


Alberta Hunter, My Castle's Rockin', DVD
Alberta Hunter, My Castle's Rockin', DVD

Alberta Hunter
b. 4-1-1895; Memphis, TN
d. 10-17-1984

Blues singer, songwriter, and nurse, Alberta Hunter started her musical career in the early 1920s, and became a successful jazz and blues recording artist. Hunter retired from performing in the 1950s and became a nurse; she resumed her singing career in her eighties.


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