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The Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music (Kyle Smith, curator) in the Free Library of Philadelphia has acquired the performance library of The Women's Philharmonic. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the Women's Philharmonic has been pivotal in the growing prominence of women composers and conductors in the U.S. Their concerts and recordings, prior to the disbanding of the orchestra in 2004, are counted as turning points in the careers of many women musicians. Included in the gift are scores and parts to works by Esther Williamson Ballou, Lili Boulanger, Teresa Carreno, Emma Lou Diemer, Jacqueline Fontyn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Florence Price, Camilla de Rossi, and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia is the world's largest lending library of orchestral performance materials, with over 21,000 titles. It is a unique source for many rare and otherwise out-of-print works, with large holdings of American, Latin-American, Swedish, Russian, and Moravian titles, and has a long-standing commitment to promoting new, noteworthy, and little-known orchestral music. The collection is open Monday through Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm, and can be reached by phone at (215) 686-5313, or by e-mail at fleisher@library.phila.gov.

The University of Pennsylvania Library (Richard Griscom, head, Otto...