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Newsletter of the Rebecca Clarke Society. Contact: info@rebeccaclarke.org. Semiannual. vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 2001). Subscription/Membership: Rebecca Clarke Society, Women's Studies Program, Mailstop 082, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. $10. Also accessible on the Web site free of charge at http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/.

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was a composer and violist born in England of German-American parents. She was the first woman to study with Sir Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music (London) and the first woman to be admitted to the Queen's Hall Orchestra. She had a notable and lengthy performance career and wrote numerous chamber compositions, achieving recognition in both England and the United States, where she died at the age of ninety-three. With the recent expansion of musicological research into the realm of women's and gender studies, Clarke's music is being performed, recorded, published, and studied. Women's studies educators would do well to examine her biography-it serves as a perfect example of the struggles women composers and performing musicians faced throughout the twentieth century as they sought ...

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