Previous Online Issues
Online publication of The Maud Powell Signature began with Volume II, No. 2 and ended with Volume III, No. 2. The contents of some previous issues are listed below but the complete list of issues is in the drop-down menu. To access an issue, click on the cover image or choose the issue number from the drop down menu under Previous Issues. Currently they are available in pdf format only.
Volume Two
No. 2
Premiere Online Issue / June 2008 / The March of the Women
From the desk of . . . Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, Sigma Alpha Iota
Editorial -- The March of the Women
Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale by Leslie Holmes
Women with a Cause, The Creation of the MacDowell Colony by Robin Rausch
Marion Bauer, From the Wild West to New York Modernism by Susan Pickett
Graveyard Stories by Susan Pickett
The Society of Women Musicians, A Major Step Forward in the "March of the Women" by Pamela Blevins
Doreen Carwithen, Breaking Down Barriers by Andrew Palmer
The Children’s Corner
Amy Beach, "Stealing from the Birds" and other adventures in music by Marie Harris
Cameos of More Women in Music
Teresa Carreño by Pamela Blevins
Maud Powell by Karen Shaffer
Dorothy Gow by John France
Ethel Smyth by Pamela Blevins
The Learning Center -- Brighter Women Through Music by Madeline Frank
Reviews
Ruth Gipps, an indomitable spirit -- Biography -- by Pamela Blevins
Ethel Smyth -- U.S. premiere of The Wreckers -- by Bill Marsh
Recordings
Profiles of Contributors
Daryle Gardner-Bonneau
Leslie Holmes
Robin Rausch
Susan Pickett
Pamela Blevins
Andrew Palmer
Marie Harris
Previous Print Issues
The following five back issues of The Maud Powell Signature are accessible on this web site by clicking on the desired issue. The first five issues of Signature were published in print in 1995–97 and these are now available in easily printable pdf format on this web site. Online publication began with Volume II, No. 2, June 2008.
Volume One
No. 1 Premiere issue / Summer 1995 / Pioneering Spirit of Women in Music
Maud Powell, American violinist
Elinor Remick Warren, American composer
Florence Price, American composer
Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, Educator
Juliette Kang, Canadian violinist
From the desk of . . . Midori, violinist
From the Editor
No. 2 Fall 1995 / Family Traditions
Pauline Viardot Garcia, singer, composer, pianist
Maria Garcia Malibran, singer
Louise Héritte Viardot, singer, composer, writer
The Anna Amalies of the Prussian court, composers
Amy, Rose, Melusina Fay, pianists, organizers, educators
Cécile Chaminade, composer, pianist
Julianne McLean, concert
pianist
From the desk of . . . Libby Larsen, composer
From the Editor
No. 3 Winter 1996 / Women and Orchestras, Part 1
Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
Ruth Gipps, English composer/conductor
Women and musical instruments in America
The experience of black women as orchestra performers and conductors
16th Century Orchestra of Nuns in Ferrara, Italy
From the desk of . . . Jo Ann Falletta, conductor, Women’s Philharmonic
From the Editor
No. 4 Spring/Summer 1996 / Women and Orchestras, Part 2
Overview of women in orchestras on all levels
A Tribute to Ruth Gipps by Tony Hickson
Virginia Harpham, pioneer principal, 2nd violin section, NSO
Elisabeth Adkins, associate concertmaster, NSO
Ann Hobson Pilot, principal harpist, BSO
Marion Scott, English musicologist, Haydn authority, writer, violinst, champion of women composers and performers in England
“The Vocal Point” – Leslie Holmes’ column on singers
“Have you heard of . . .” -- Anya Laurence’s column
From the desk of . . . Virginia Eskin, pianist, champion of women composers
From the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Volume Two
No. 1 April 1997 / Women of Vision
Princess de Polignac,
Isabella Stewart Gardner,
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge -- patrons
Ursula Vaughan Williams, Joy Finzi -- established Trusts
Judith Anne Still, Wm. Grant Still Music
Jeanette Thurber, National Conservatory of Music founder
Betty Roe, composer, performer, innovator
Marnie Hall, Leonarda recordings
Yvette Guilbert, La Diseuse
From the desk of . . . Jeanne Singer
From the Editor