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- Published online March 1, 2008.
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- Adrienne Fried Block
- Coauthor of Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature (1979), author of Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer (1999), awarded the Sonneck Society's Lowens Prize and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award, and editor of Amy Beach: String Quartet in One Movement, op. 89 (AMS). A specialist in music by American women, she is codirector of ““Music in Gotham: The New York Scene, 1862––1875,”” a project chronicling the performance and reception of music in New York City. Her articles have appeared in American Music, Musical Quarterly, and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She was honored by the Society for American Music with a Lifetime Achievement Award.