One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra

by Mary Sue Welsh

Book Overview

Gifted harpist Edna Phillips (1907-2003) joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1930, becoming not only that ensemble's first female member but also the first woman to hold a principal position in a major American orchestra. Plucked from the Curtis Institute of Music in the midst of her studies, Phillips was only twenty-three years old when Leopold Stokowski, one of the twentieth century's most innovative and controversial conductors, named her principal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037367
• ISBN13: 9780252037368
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"