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The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra/La Symphonie féminine de Montréal. First women's symphony orchestra in Canada. Founded in 1940 by Madge (Mrs H.B.) Bowen and Ethel Stark, its only conductor, the orchestra numbered some 75 professional and amateur musicians. (Amateur musicians were not used after 1947.) The orchestra's first concert, 29 July 1940, was followed by four in the 1941-2 season and an average of 10 annually thereafter until dissolution in the late 1960s. Its home auditorium was Plateau Hall. It was the first Canadian symphony orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall (22 Oct 1947), and it appeared as well in Toronto, Kingston, and London, Ont. The extent of its repertoire is indicated by such works as Strauss' Tod und Verklärung, Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Schubert's Mass in G, Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand Alone (with the dedicatee Paul Wittgenstein as soloist), and MacMillan's Two Sketches. It premiered Violet Archer's Sea Drift and Leaves of Grass and introduced to Canada Bloch's Concerto grosso No. 2. Soloists included Ellen Ballon, Percy Grainger, Witold Malcuzynski, Zara Nelsova, and Joseph Rouleau. After 1954 the orchestra alternated in concert with its subsidiaries, the Montreal Women's Symphony Strings and the Ethel Stark Symphonietta.
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