This year 2011 marks the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Maud Powell Society for Music and Education in 1986.  Help us celebrate by commemorating Maud Powell.

To learn how you can commemorate Maud Powell, click here.

To read about Maud Powell's debut, click here.

Maud Powell Featured in The Strad
July 2011
"Great Violinists"

Article written by Powell biographer Karen Shaffer
"Celebrating the groundbreaking U.S. performer, whose consummate skill and communicative abilities impressed aficionados and the general public alike."

Don't Miss -- Rachel Barton Pine's insightful discussion about Maud Powell Favorites with Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles on Violinist.com

Rachel Barton Pine and Maud Powell Featured in Strings Magazine

See the June 2010 issue

Presentation "Maud Powell, An American Legend"
By Maud Powell biographer Karen A. Shaffer
The dramatic story of America's first great master of the violin who pioneered the violin concerto in America; illustrated with over 200 images via PowerPoint and Powell's actual recordings dating from 1904

Available by arrangement

Rachel, Maud & Mahler and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

All-Beethoven program commemorating the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth by largely replicating the New York Philharmonic program of December 31st, 1909, in which Maud Powell was the soloist in the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Gustav Mahler conducting.  Maud Powell called this performance "one of the supreme moments" of her artistic career.  Click here to read the fascinating story of how Gustav Mahler's initial antipathy toward Maud Powell (because she was an American and a woman at that daring to play Beethoven!) melted into mutual admiration and deeply felt artistic kinship.

Featuring:
Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4
Maud Powell/Gustav Mahler Exhibit

The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra
Maestro Alexander Platt
Rachel Barton Pine, violin soloist

Saturday, January 15, 2011  8:00 p.m.
Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center
19900 S. Harlem Avenue, Frankfort, Illinois

Sunday, January 16, 2011   3:00 p.m.
Ozinga Chapel at Trinity Christian College
Palos Heights, Illinois

www.ipomusic.org
708-481-7774  or email at boxoffice@ipomusic.org
 

Come to the Illinois Valley for the Maud Powell Arts Celebration in Peru, Illinois, on Saturday and Sunday, August 20-21, 2011.  Click on the photo to see the schedule of events.

Help Us Celebrate -- and Write Women Back Into Music History!

Donate $25 or $125 in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of The Maud Powell Society for Music and Education in 1986.  Tell your friends and help us meet our goal of $125,000 so that the Maud Powell Society for Music and Education can continue its music education programs throughout the world, including publication of Signature, Women in Music magazine, presentations on Maud Powell and on women composers and on music history in schools, publication of our children's book series on women in music, and programs like Music and Your Child. 

WRITING WOMEN BACK INTO MUSIC HISTORY!

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