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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




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Women in Music Posters “U-V-W-X-Y-Z”
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Notable and famous women in music: singers, songwriters, composers, dancers ~

Galina Ulanova
Dame Ninette de Valois
Sarah Vaughan
Madame Vestris

Dinah Washington
Ethel Waters
Mary Lou Williams

Nancy Wilson
Tammy Wynette
Vera Zorina



Soviet Ballerina Galina Ulanova Dancing in Title Roll of Ballet "Giselle" at the Bolshoi Theater, Photographic Print
Galina Ulanova
Photographic Print

Galina Ulanova
b. 1-7-1910; St. Petersburg
d. 3-21-1998

Ulanova was prima ballerina assoluta of the Soviet Union for 16 years.

Galina Oulanova, Etoiles du Ballet Russe Art Print
Galina Oulanova,
Etoiles du Ballet Russe
Art Print


Dame Ninette de Valois, Director of Sadler Wells Ballet and Founder of England's Royal Ballet, Photographic Print, Alfred Eisenstaedt
Dame Ninette de Valois,
Photographic Print

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Dame Ninette de Valois,
née Edris Stannus
b. 6-6-1898; Ireland
d. 3-8-2001; London

Ninette de Valois, regarded as one of the most influential persons in ballet history, was a dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of England's Royal Ballet.

Checkmate, VHS


Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis at the Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., Art Print
Sarah Vaughan
and Miles Davis
at the Howard Theatre,
Washington D.C.,
Art Print

Sarah Vaughan
b. 3-27-1924; Newark, NJ
d. 4-3-1990

Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan was called “The Divine One” and was the receipient of the NEA Jazz masters Award in 1989.

Sarah Vaughan at Amazon.com
Sarah Vaughan bookmark


Madame Vestris in the role of Don Giovanni from Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni' Giclee Print
Madame Vestris
in the role of
Don Giovanni from Mozart's opera
'Don Giovanni'
Giclee Print

Lucia Elizabeth Vestris,
née Bartolozzi
b. January, 1797; London
d. 8-8-1856

Madame Vestris had a contralto voice and was particularly successful in “breeches role” where a woman plays a male role.

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American Blues, Jazz, and R&B Singer Dinah Washington, 1963, Photographic Print
Singer Dinah Washington, 1963,
Photographic Print



Dinah Washington
née Ruth Lee Jones
b. 8-29-1924; Tuscaloosa, AL
d. 12-14-1963

Dinah Washington, a blues, R&B and jazz singer, was one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Best of Dinah Washington, CD
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Stars of the Harlem Renaissance - Ethel Waters Poster
Stars of the Harlem Renaissance -
Ethel Waters Poster

Ethel Waters
b. 10-31-1896; Chester, PA
d. 9-1-1977, CA

Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, into unhappy circumstances. Her mother was just 12 years old, and Waters was raised in poverty in Philadelphia by her grandmother. Still in her teens, Ethel was already divorced and working as a chambermaid for $4.75 a week when her friends convinced her to sing at an amateur night competition at a local club. She won first prize and a steady job, and soon she was performing on the black vaudeville circuit. She was billed as "Sweet Mama Stringbean" because she was tall and skinny.

Waters began to record blues songs at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance in 1919, and by 1921 she was a huge star. Her single "Down Home Blues" sold more than 500,000 copies in six months, and she drew rave reviews for her Broadway appearances in two important black revues, Africana and Blackbirds of 1928. But she never lived in luxury. In fact, she gave away most of her money to Harlem's poor. "There's an old saying that charity begins at home," she said, "and all Harlem is home to me."

Ethel Waters career lasted much longer than the Harlem Renaissance itself. She remained a popular stage, screen, and radio actress for many years. In the early 1950s, she played the title role on the television show Beulah – the first national TV show that featured an African American as its main character. Waters also received two Academy Award nominations for her work in the movies Pinky (1938) and A Member of the Wedding (1953), and she wrote two autobiographies. She died in 1977.

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Tina Turner, Rolling Stone no. 471, April 1986
Mary Lou Williams,
Photographic Print

Mary Lou Williams, née Mary Elfrieda Scruggs
b. 5-8-1910; Atlanta, GA
d. 5-28-1981; Durham, NC (cancer)

Self taught pianist Mary Lou Williams grew up in Pennsylvania, working as early as age six to help support her large family. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded over a hundred records with such greats as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, as well as being a friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Mary Lou Williams on Culture Map poster
Piano Lesson collage by Romare Bearden
Live at the Keystone Korner, CD


Nancy Wilson, photo
Nancy Wilson,
Photo

Nancy Wilson
b. 2-20-1937; Chillicothe, Ohio

Three time Grammy Award winning jazz and blues singer Nancy Wilson calls herself a song stylist.

The Very Best of Nancy Wilson: The Capitol Recordings 1960-1976


Tammy Wynette, Photo
Tammy Wynette, Photo

Tammy Wynette
née Virginia Wynette Pugh
b. 5-5-1942; Itawamba County, Mississippi
d. 4-6-1998

Singer and songwriter Tammy Wynette is known as the First Lady of Country Music.

FYI - Wynette was born on her grandparents farm that was right on the border with Alabama.

Tammy Wynette - 20 Greatest Hits, CD


Vera Zorina, who popularized the ballet on Broadway, and in the Movies, was once minor soloist in Hurok's Ballet. ..... 1944 LIFE Magazine Print
Vera Zorina,
1944 LIFE
Magazine Print

Vera Zorina, née Eva Brigitta Hartwig
b. 1-2-1917; Berlin, Germany
d. 4-9-2003; Santa Fe, NM (cerebral hemorrhage)

Vera Zorina, who popularized ballet on Broadway and in the movies such as On Your Toes, was also the second wife of George Balanchine.

Student Edwina Seaver Trying to Emulate Vera Zorina's Grand Jete, Photographic Print
Student Edwina Seaver Trying to Emulate Vera Zorina's Grand Jete, Photographic Print


A Courtisan with a Shamisen Giclee Print
A Courtisan with
a Shamisen,
Giclee Print

A Courtisan with a Shamisen

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