Would you consider composing music to be a traditionally men’s field? Surprisingly, over the centuries it has been difficult for women to succeed in this male-dominated field. Not that women didn’t have the ability or passion for this endeavor. This month we feature two dedicated women composers: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach and Florence Beatrice Smith Price.
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, honoring composer, musician, and singer Carole King, is currently playing on Broadway. This month’s e-newsletter not only features Carole King but another musical sensation as well, Hazel Harrison. Enjoy reading about these two amazing musical women.
One area of technological focus in the twenty-first century is using robots to do work that is either tedious for, or dangerous to humans. Like every other field of endeavor, women are involved in developing, refining, and improving robots. In this month’s enewsletter we feature two female roboticists: Ayanna Howard and Helen Greiner.
May 2017 Her Story ENewsletter Singers
On the occasion of what would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 100th birthday, we are pleased to profile her as well as Billie Holiday in this month’s ENewsletter. Both Fitzgerald and Holiday have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Known as the First Lady of Soul, the Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella, Ella Fitzgerald could sing every genre of music. For more than half a century, she was the most popular female jazz singer in the U.S. Over her lifetime, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worked with all of the jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.
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In early February, the National Women’s Hall of Fame announced the ten 2017 Inductees. In this month’s ENewsletter, we profile two of the women who will be officially inducted in September 2017 in Seneca Falls, New York: Lorraine Hansberry and Temple Grandin.
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