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Articles
by William Osborne and Abbie Conant
Arts
Funding
Women
In Music
Updates
about the Vienna Philharmonic
Music
Theater
Reviews
by William Osborne
Interviews
and biographical articles about us
William's
Weblog of Emails
Thoughts On Listening
Articles
by Abbie Conant
Women
in Music
The
Vienna Philharmonic -- articles and past updates
(Some
articles includes information about women in other orchestras as well.)
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New!!!
Vienna
Philharmonic Update 2015:
Some
Notable Progress for Women,
but
A Blind Eye Turned to the Exculsion of Asians
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Vienna
Phil Update December 30, 2012:
Philharmonic
Daughters
and Secret Histories
(The status of women in the
Vienna Philharmonic, December 30, 2012)
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VPO Update 2011
Genteel
Discretion and
Easy Complacency
(
The status of women and minorities in
the
Vienna
Philharmonic, December 2011)
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Vienna
Philharmonic Update
December
2009 |
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Tokenism
and Firings: VPO Update December 2006
The
status of women and people of color in the
Vienna
State
Opera Orchestra/Vienna Philharmonic ten years after it nominally ended
its discriminatory policies.
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HERR-LICHE
ORCHESTER? Über
die Situation von Frauen im Orchester von Nadine Dietrich
Das
Orchester, September 2007
(S.
32-35) |
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Vienna
Philharmonic Update December 2007 |
Chronologie:
Frauen bei den Wiener Philharmonikern
Der
Standard, 13. Dezember 2006
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Oboist
Helene Kenyeri fired by the
Vienna
State Opera
Update
2008
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First
Woman To Have Become A Member of the Vienna
Philharmonic Takes Leave of
Absence (Update 2005)
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The
Vienna Philharmonic and Racism in American Classical Music
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Why
Did the Vienna Philharmonic Fire Yasuto Sugiyama?
(Update
2005)
A
discussion of the orchestra's past racial policies and the recent
firing of Yasuto Sugiyama.
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The
Naked Nexus of Music and Politics (Update
2005)
A
commentary about our interview on WNYC (New York City) on March 11,
2005.
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Ozawa
Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic's New Years Concert:
Tokennism
and Public Relations.
(Update
2002)
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Symphony
Orchestras and Artist-Prophets
Cultural
Isomorphism and the Allocation of Power In Music, published in
Leonardo Music Journal (M.I.T. Press.)
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Symphonieorchester
und Künstlerpropheten
(Auf Deutsch)
Kultureller
Isomorphismus und die Machtverteilung in der Musik, veröffentlicht
in
Leonardo
Music Journal
(M.I.T. Press.)
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Vienna
Philharmonic Update 2003
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First
Woman Performs On Vienna's New Years Concert (2003)
Violist
Ursuala Plaichinger performs on the Vienna Philharmonic's 2003
concert.)
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Music,
Sexism, and War
A
commentary on war, sexism and protest against the Vienna Philharmonic
published by MSNBC, January 12, 2003.
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Vienna
Philharmonic Protest Flier (2003)
Hard
hitting facts condensed into one page front and back.
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The
Two-Percent Society
A
translation and commentary of Peter Schneeberger's article about the
Vienna Philharmaonic from the Austrian magazine profil from
February 24, 2003.
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The
Image of Purity
The
Racial Ideologies of the Vienna Philharmonic In Historical Perspective
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Action
Aisle: Vienna Philharmonic Update 1999
Includes
information about Frauennetz protest and the orchestra’s pay,
published in the IAWM Journal.
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A
Difficult Birth
Maternity
Leave In the Vienna Philharmonic
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Musical
Misogyny
An
Interview of Members of
the Vienna Philharmonic by the West German State Radio, transcribed
and translated by William Osborne.
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Musik
und Frauenfeindlichkeit
(Auf
Deutsch)
An
Interview of Members
of the Vienna Philharmonic by the West German State Radio, transcribed
and translated by William Osborne.
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Blind
Auditions and Moral Myopia
The
Vienna Philharmonic's ideologies and their effect on its audition
procedures. (This article is especially useful since it provides
a concise documentation of the
orchestra's discriminatory policies.)
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Anfrage
der Östreichische Abgeordneten
Petrovic,
Schmidt, Ablinger, Kolleginnen und Kollegen
an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft und Verkehr und der
Bundeskanzler betreffend Benachteiligung von Frauen durch das
Staatsopernorchester
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Selected
Newspaper Articles About the Vienna Phiharmonic
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Weblog
of William Osborne's Emails
Articles
About Our Music Theater
Reviews
by William Osborne
Articles
by Abbie Conant
Some
Major Interviews and Articles About Us
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Taking
On the Vienna Philharmonic
About
our work for women in music on the MSNBC News website. |
Interview
of Abbie in the
On-Line
Trombone Journal |
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"5
Bizarre Dark Sides
of Modern Orchestras"
A
hilarious article in Cracked.com that covers Abbie's experiences in the
Munich Philharmonic. It has had over 700,000 readers and
"Liked" on Facebook over 14,000 times.
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Abbie
Conant: die frau, die mit celibidache in den ring stieg
clarino,
bläsermusik international 5/2004
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“William
Osborne: Artist and Activist”
An
interview in the IAWM Journal. |
„We’ll
sing from our Hearts“
(Auf
Deutsch)
VivaVoce
(Summer 2000).
(A
German language interview of us together in the
Journal of the Internationale Arbeitskries Frau und Musik) |
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Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
Abbie's
experiences in the Munich Philharmonic comprise the last
chapter of the book which was on the New York
Times Bestseller List for 18 weeks -- and number one for three.
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“Sexism In the Brass Section
The
Wall Street Journal (July
7, 1993) |
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"New
Vistas for the Performing Arts
A
brief discussion of our artistic techniques and their development by
William Osborne. |
"The
Wired Goddess
and
Her Trombone"
(Auf
Deutsch)
Ein Bericht von Theda Weber-Lucks für den
SWR,
15. Dezember 2000 |
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„We
Need A Man for SoloTrombone: Abbie Conant’s Story
By
Monique Buzzarte, IAWM Journal (Febraruy 1996)pp. 8-11 |
„Aus
dem Blech gefallen“
Der
Spiegel (No. 44, 1991)pp. 89-93. |
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Mark
Adamo: "The Trombonist
Who
Locked Horns,"
The
Washington Post (March 14, 1994) |
„Wir
Brauchen einen Mann...“
Kultur
Joker,
(May 1995): Title page.
(Lange
Interview.) |
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„Wenn
eine Frau
die
erste Posaune spielt“
TAZ-Jouranl
zur Weltfrauenkonferenz Peking. (taz vom Dez. 29, 1994)pp.
66-67. |
Susanne
Benda, "Die zärtliche Stärke", Badische Zeitung,
Mittwoch, 24. Mai 1995
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Hannes
Hintermeir, "Celi Will keine Frau an der Posaune"
Abend
Zeitung, Dienstag, 29. Oktober
1991, Seite 16 |
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