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Table of Contents: “…Diva -- A status report on the contemporary scene : part one -- A status report : part II -- Remembrance of things passé : Jill McManus recalls the frustrations of the jazz sisters in the 1970s -- Several successful contemporary young women musicians talk about their inspiration and commitment -- Pianists Renee Rosnes and Rachel Z, rising to the top in the 1990s, ruminate about their worlds -- A view from the business women -- The instrument is the image -- Kit McClure, big-band leader : "You did the right thing" -- Tracy Wormworth, bassist : "Doors just opened" -- Emily Remler and the guitarists --Focusing on trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Franks, alto saxophonists Virginia Mayhew, Charol Chaikin, and Sue Terry, French horn player Stephanie Fauber, oboist Kathy Halvorson, and saxophonists Laura Dreyer and Paula Atherton -- Trumpeters Laurie Frink and Stacy Rowles -- Flautists Elise Wood and Ali Ryerson -- Carol Sudhalter, a role model -- Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophonist and experimentalist -- Terri Lyne Carrington -- Cindy Blackman and Sylvia Cuenca -- Percussionist Carol Steele -- Individualists -- Shirley Horn : "I got older and bolder" -- Joanne Brackeen lives and plays without any dos and don'ts -- The wily Miss Dorothy Donegan, mistress of fiery medleys -- Marian McPartland : "... something you really need in life, someone to encourage you" -- A few words about love, marriage, and motherhood -- A view from the West Coast / Frankie Nemko -- Appendix : Women instrumentalists active in the 1980s and early 1990s.…”

Table of Contents: “…DIARIES AND LETTERS: Diary of Liubov' Vasil'evna Shaporina, hospital nurse during Siege; later an artist -- Diary of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, artist -- Letter from Leningrad: Él'za Greinert to children -- Letter from Leningrad: German family remembered -- Diary and letters of Evgeniia Shavrova, introduced by her sister, Elena Fassman, librarian -- Diary of Vera Sergeevna Kostrovitskaia, ballerina and dance teacher -- Diary of Mariia Viacheslavovna Kropacheva, school teacher -- Diary of Anna Ivanovna Likhacheva, doctor -- Diary of Tamara Petrovna Nekliudova, entertainer at the front -- Ol'ga Mikhailovna Freidenberg, classicist scholar, first woman department chair in a Soviet university, The Race of Life -- MEMOIRS AND ORAL HISTORIES: Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, Evacuation and The Scottish Album -- Valentina Nikolaevna Gorokhova, doctor, The War, the Blockade, the Military Hospital -- Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova, housewife, A Half-CenturyAgo -- Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina, literary scholar, "Saving, I Am Saved" -- Interview with Natal'ia Borisovna Rogova, librarian, archivist -- Interview with Valentina Fedorovna Petrova, archivist -- Oral history of Natal'ia Vladimirovna Stroganova, child during the Siege; later philologist -- Interview with Valentina Il'inishna Bushueva, factory worker -- Avgusta Mikhailovna Saraeva-Bondar', art historian, Silhouettes of Time -- Interview with Kseniia Makianovna Matus, oboist in the Leningrad Symphony -- Yuliia Aronovna Mendeleva, doctor, memoir excerpts from The Defense of Leningrad -- Lilia Solomonovna Frankfurt, librarian, "The Saltykov- Shchedrin National Public Library" -- Interview with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher, and Ol'ga Anatol'evna Trapitsina-Matveenko, chemist -- DOCUMENTARY PROSE: Elena Oskarovna Martilla, artist, Grave Months for the Blockaded City -- Lidiia Samsonovna Razumovskaia, university student, "To the People" -- Irena L'vovna Dubitskaia, Cold Sun: Stories -- Liudmila Ivanovna Veshenkova, "Sweet Earth" -- Antonina Emel'ianovna Maslovskaia, "Blockade Lullaby" -- Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, "Vitamins, or Ode to Grass" -- Liubov' Borisovna Beregovaia, The Joyous, the Inimitable.…”
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