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Author Welsh, Mary Sue.

Title One woman in a hundred : Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra / Mary Sue Welsh.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML419.P45 W4    Available  ---
Description xvii, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration ; 24 cm.
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword -- In the lion's den -- A formidable arena -- The little goat -- Keeping up with the speed kings -- One step ahead of the sheriff -- A season of firsts -- "Answer yes or no" -- "Mortally wounded" -- War on Broad Street -- Honor among women -- A month out of school -- On to Fantasia -- A silent exit -- Cajoling and seducing composers -- War stories -- Afterword.
Subject Phillips, Edna, 1907-2003.
Phillips, Edna, 1907-2003.
Philadelphia Orchestra -- History.
Philadelphia Orchestra.
History.
Harpists -- United States -- Biography.
Harpists.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780252037368 cloth alkaline paper
0252037367 cloth alkaline paper