Index to our Articles

 

Articles about Arts Funding

Articles about Women In Music

Articles and Updates about the Vienna Philharmonic

Articles about our Music Theater

Reviews by William Osborne

Interviews and biographical articles about us

 

William's Weblog of Emails

  Thoughts On Listening

 

Articles by Abbie Conant

 

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Helene Kenyeri fired by the Vienna State Opera

 

HERR-LICHE ORCHESTER? 

Über die Situation von Frauen im Orchester von Nadine Dietrich 

Das Orchester, September 2007 (S. 32-35) 

 

Chronologie: Frauen bei den Wiener Philharmonikern

Der Standard, 13. Dezember 2006

Vienna Philharmonic Update December 2007

Vienna Philharmonic 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.)  

 

 

 

 

My Trombone Teaching Philosophy

(A ten page article describing Prof. Abbie Conant's pedagogical concepts.) 

Die Philosophie meines Posaunenunterrichts

La mia filosofia di insegnamento del trombone

 

 

 

Arts Funding

 

Marketplace of Ideas: But First, the Bill  

            A Personal Commentary On American and European Cultural Funding

 

 

Women In Orchestras

 

You Sound Like A Ladies’ Orchestra  (Best of the Web Award 1997.)

            A Case History of Sexism Against Abbie Conant In the Munich Philharmonic

 

Sie klingen wie ein Damenorchester  

         Sexismus bei den Münchner Philharmonikern: Der Fall Abbie Conant                       

            (Auf Deutsch) (Best of the Web Award 1997.)        

    

Art Is Just An Excuse

            Gender Bias In International Orchestras, published in the IAWM Journal.

 

Symphony Orchestras and Artist-Prophets

            Cultural Isomorphism and the Allocation of Power In Music, published in

             Leonardo Music Journal (M.I.T. Press.)  

                        

Symphonieorchester und Künstlerpropheten (Auf Deutsch)

             Kultureller Isomorphismus  und die Machtverteilung in der Musik, veröffentlicht in

             Leonardo Music Journal (M.I.T. Press.)

 

Der Anteil an Frauen in europaeischen und US-amerikansichen Orchestern

Zusammengestelt von Regina Himmelbauer auf Grundlage der eigenen 

Website-Angaben der Orchester (zw.16.11. und 23.11.2005)

         

The Representation of Women in European and American Orchestras

Prepared by Regina Himmelbauer based on the orchestra's websites (between

11.16 and 11.23, 2005)

 

 

 

Women In Music

 

Sounding the Abyss of Otherness

            Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening and the Sonic Meditations

            Published as Chapter 3 in Women Making Art (New York: Lang, 2000) pp. 

            65-86.

 

Where Are the Women?

            A Study of  Women University Level Composition Teachers in Western Europe,

            published in the IAWM Journal.

                         German Version (Auf Deutsch)

                       published in VivaVoce (Germany) and KlingKlong (Switzerland.)

 

Articles and Updates About the Vienna Philharmonic

 

HERR-LICHE ORCHESTER? 

Über die Situation von Frauen im Orchester von Nadine Dietrich 

Das Orchester, September 2007 (S. 32-35) 

 

Chronologie: Frauen bei den Wiener Philharmonikern

Der Standard, 13. Dezember 2006

 

The Vienna Philharmonic and Racism in American Classical Music

 

Vienna Philharmonic Update December 2007

 

Vienna Philharmonic Update 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.)

 

 First Woman To Have Become A Member of the Vienna 

      Philharmonic Takes Leave of Absence (Update 2005)

 

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.

 

 The Naked Nexus of Music and Politics (Update 2005)

A commentary about our interview on WNYC (New York City) on March 11, 2005.  

 

Symphony Orchestras and Artist-Prophets

            Cultural Isomorphism and the Allocation of Power In Music, published in

             Leonardo Music Journal (M.I.T. Press.)  

                        

Symphonieorchester und Künstlerpropheten (Auf Deutsch)

             Kultureller Isomorphismus  und die Machtverteilung in der Musik, veröffentlicht in

             Leonardo Music Journal (M.I.T. Press.)

 

Action Aisle: Vienna Philharmonic Update 1999

             Includes information about Frauennetz protest and the orchestra’s pay,

             published in the IAWM Journal.

 

Ozawa Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic's New Years Concert: Tokennism and Public Relations. (Update 2002)

 

Press Release: Vienna Philharmonic Update 2003

 

First Woman Performs On Vienna's New Years Concert (2003)

Violist Ursuala Plaichinger performs on the Vienna Philharmonic's 2003 concert.)

 

Music, Sexism, and War

A commentary on war, sexism and protest against the Vienna Philharmonic published by MSNBC, January 12, 2003.

 

Vienna Philharmonic Protest Flier (2003)

Hard hitting facts condensed into one page front and back.

 

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.

 

For Vienna Philharmonic, An Aesthetic Downfall

A review by William Osborne, special to MSNBC, of the orchestra's 2003 tour to the USA.

 

The Image of Purity

The Racial Ideologies of the Vienna Philharmonic In Historical Perspective

 

A Difficult Birth

        Maternity Leave In the Vienna Philharmonic

 

Musical Misogyny

           An Interview of  Members of the Vienna Philharmonic by

           the West German State Radio, transcribed and translated by William Osborne.

                      *  German Version (Auf Deutsch)

 

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.)

 

Selected Newspaper Articles About the Vienna Phiharmonic

 

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.

 

Weblog of William's Emails

 

Weblog of Emails and Commentaries (over 60 documents)

The Vienna Philharmonic, Postmodernism, Women in Music Technology, etc.

 

Thoughts On Listening

            Twenty-two commentaries on music, listening and aesthetic discernment.

 

 

Articles About Our Music Theater

 

 

New Vistas for the Performance Arts

             A discussion of technical aspects of our music theater.

 

 

Reviews by William Osborne

 

 

Landscapes on the Borders of Silence 

              A review of the Gelb, Oliveros, Reason Trio published in 20th Century Music

 

Old Stalwarts Usher In the New Millennium 

           Cutting Edge improvised electronic music at Art Rattan in Oakland,              published 20th Century  Music.

 

Ars Electornica, Eugenics, and Rape

             A review of Ars Electronica 2000: "Next Sex" published on the MSNBC website

 

From the Machines of War to the Body as Compiled Code

            A review of the International Computer Music Conference 2000 as published in 

            Music Works.

 

Korperlose Music?  (Auf Deutsch)

             A review of the International Computer Music Conference 2000 as published in 

             MusikTexte.

 

For Vienna Philharmonic, An Aesthetic Downfall

A review by William Osborne, special to MSNBC, of the orchestra's 2003 tour to the USA.

 

 

Articles by Abbie Conant

 

My Trombone Teaching Philosophy

(A ten page article describing Prof. Abbie Conant's pedagogical concepts.) 

 

Die Philosophie meines Posaunenunterrichts 

(A ten page article describing Prof. Abbie Conant's pedagogical concepts.) 

 

La mia filosofia di insegnamento del trombone.

(A ten page article describing Prof. Abbie Conant's pedagogical concepts.) 

 

The Swiss Clown Grock and the Berio Sequenza V

 

The Status of Women In German Speaking Orchestras

                       *  German Version (Auf Deutsch)

 

Der Status der Frauen in deutschen Orchestern

Ein auf Erfahrung beruhender Bericht, as published in VivaVoce (Nr. 48, December 1998.)

           

Twenty-one Questions for Young Performers

 

Einundzwanzig Fragen an junge MusikerInnen

 

Letter to a Young Trombonist

 

 

 

 

Some Major Interviews and Articles About Us.

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

 

“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)

 

"New Vistas for the Performing Arts"

             A brief discussion of our artistic techniques and their development by 

             William Osborne.

 

  “Sexism In the Brass Section”

              The Wall Street Journal (July 7, 1993)

 

„We Need A Man for SoloTrombone: Abbie Conant’s Story”

          By Monique Buzzarte, IAWM Journal (Febraruy 1996)pp. 8-11.

 

"The Wired Goddess and Her Trombone"   (Auf Deutsch)

          Ein Bericht von Theda Weber-Lucks für den SWR, 15. Dezember 2000

 

Mark Adamo , "The Trombonist Who Locked Horns," The Washington Post (March   14, 1994)

 

„Aus dem Blech gefallen,“Der Spiegel (No. 44, 1991)pp. 89-93.

 

„Wenn eine Frau die erste Posaune spielt,“  TAZ-Jouranl zur Weltfrauenkonferenz Peking. (taz vom Dez. 29, 1994)pp. 66-67.

 

„Wir Brauchen einen Mann...“ Kultur Joker,  (May 1995): Title page. (Lange Interview

 

Hannes Hintermeir, "Celi Will keine Frau an der Posaune," Abend Zeitung Dienstag, 29. Oktober 1991, Seite 16

 

Susanne Benda, "Die zärtliche Stärke", Badische Zeitung, Mittwoch, 24. Mai 1995 .