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women conductors: why so few? | article by anna hodgson
call me madame maestro | article by blair tindall
conducting motherhood: the personal and professional experiences of women orchestral conductors | article by brydie-leigh bartleet
despite gains, women conductors aren't exactly crowding the podium | article by valerie scher

PORTRAIT OF JOANN FALLETTA (circa 1992). Available at Youtube, courtesy of Women's Philharmonic Advocacy.

ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN - a documentary of Antonia Brico by Judy Collins and Jill Godmillow (1974) more information
Available to watch at Youtube

HER DREAM JOB (watch at the Goethe Institute website)
In this segment, three female conductors talk about their work: Simon Young, the General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera as well as Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra; Catherine Rückwardt, the General Director of Music at the City Theatre of Mainz; and Shi-Yeon Sung, a student of conducting at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.

A WOMAN IS A RISKY BET - six orchestra conductors (1987)
Original Swedish Title: DIRIGENTERNA
Language: Swedish, English, Norwegian and Russian
Genre: drama (feature/documentary)
Duration: 80 min
Director and Scriptwriter: Christina Olofson
Featured conductors: Kerstin Nerbe, Victoria Bond, JoAnn Falletta, Veronika Dudarova, Ortrud Mann, and Camilla Kolchinsky.
Distributor: Telepicture Marketing Ltd



Collection of youtube videoclips of women conductors: Marin Alsop, Susanna Mälkki, Natalia Luis-Bassa, Anu Tali, Sian Edwards, Simone Young, and JoAnn Falletta.

books and chapters of books:


Elke Mascha Blankenburg: Dirigentinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. Porträts von Marin Alsop bis Simone Young.
Women Conductors in the 20th-Century. From Marin Alsop to Simone Young.

Publisher's contact information:
Europäische Verlagsanstalt. Bei den Muhren 70, D-20457 Hamburg
info@sabine-groenewoldverlage.de

Europäischer Dirigentinnen Reader

Publisher's contact details:
Archiv Frau und Musik
Fürstenbergerstrasse 221, D-60323 Frankfurt a.M.
info@archiv-frau-music.de

Christine Ammer: History of Women in American Music
Amadeus Press, 2001
The 2nd, "century" edition

Relevant chapters:
Opera Composers and Conductors
Today's Orchestras, Conductors, and Instrumentalists

Available from amazon.com

articles:


Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Women conductors on the orchestral podium: Pedagogical and professional implications." College Music Symposium, 48 (2008).
Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Conducting motherhood: The personal and professional experiences of women orchestral conductors." Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge, 15 (2006). available at http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts
Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Reflections on females conducting." In E. Mackinlay, D. Collins & S. Owens (Eds.), Aesthetics and experience in music performance (pp. 235-242). London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.
Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Professional female orchestral conductors and the male canon." In L. Kouvaras, R. Martin & G. Hair (Eds.), Loose canons (pp. 83-92). Canberra: Southern Voices, 2003.
Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Female conductors: The incarnation of power?" Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 29(2) (2003): 228-234.
Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh. "Re-embodying the 'gendered podium.'" Context: Journal of Music Research, 23 (2002): 39-47.
Cheng, Marietta Nien-hwa. "Women Conductors: Has the Train Left the Station?" Harmony: Forum of the Symphony Orchestra Institute, 6 (1998): 81-90.
Hinely, Mary Brown. "The Uphill Climb of Women in American Music: Conductors and Composers." Music Educator’s Journal 70.9 (May 1984): 42-49.
Jagow, Shelley M. "Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance. A Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present." College Music Symposium 38 (1998): 126-45.