Last week, in Manhattan, the Women's Symphony Orchestra of America filed papers of incorporation. The capital was named at $250,000; number of players, 60; conductor, Madame Elizabeth Kuyper, Dutch musician. A month ago, in London, the British Women's Symphony Orchestra gave a concert, played Handel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Weber with competency. Musical people who read of these events in the press began to ask questions about women conductors, women orchestra players.
Orchestras composed entirely of women are no longer novel. In 1896, the Women's String Orchestra Society of New York was organized, played for seven seasons with success; a...
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