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Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 21, 2019

In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...

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8 Things You Should Know About Elizabeth Holtzman, Pioneering Politician And Serial Glass Ceiling Smasher

wyskAugust 9, 2019

"Politics helps determine the kind of society we’d like to live in. When women aren’t an equal participant in that conversation, it has real-world consequences."...

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One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 7, 2019

1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tail on Reconstruction ...

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Dr. Frances Kelsey, The Woman Who Saved The US From The Worst Pharmaceutical Disaster In History

Guest ContributorAugust 1, 2019

By James Essinger - Most people in the United States today have never heard of the drug thalidomide, but they ought to know the danger they escaped. I...

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Queen Of The Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod And The Professionalization Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 31, 2019

There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who took impossibly romanti...

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The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 24, 2019

In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...

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Powerful “Harriet” Film Trailer Offers First Look At Cynthia Erivo As American Hero Harriet Tubman

wyskJuly 23, 2019

Focus Features has just released the first trailer for "Harriet", the highly-anticipated biopic based on the inspiring life of American freedom fighter, hero, ...

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Trapped in a Velvet Prison: The Private Musical Genius of Fanny Mendelssohn

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 10, 2019

Mendelssohn. Thirty years ago, that name carried two associations: as the surname of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher who brought a modernized Judaism int...

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Barbara Strozzi, Master Of The 17th Century Love Song

Dale DeBakcsyJune 19, 2019

Between the monophonic spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and the lush, human lyricism of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) there lie five centuries, a Renaissance,...

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