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BBB:LHWS #054   Sophie Hutchinson Drinker...

...came from one Philadelphia blueblood family and married into another. I told of the singing parties she and her husband Harry led in their Merion home for 30 years in ABC:LHS 041-1. When Sophie started a woman's choir, she was frustrated when she looked for music by, for, and about women. She made it her life's work to discover how woman had been shut out from their early roles in religion, medicine, and music. Her 1948 book Music & Women is a feminist classic. The Sophie Drinker Institute of Bremen Germany carries on women's music studies in her name and tradition.