Women in Music Posters “Am...-Av...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Carmen Amaya, Photographic Print

Carmen Amaya
b. 11-2-1913; Barcelona, Spain
d. 11-19-1963; California

Flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya performed from the time she was four years old, acted in several films and danced at the White House by invitations from FDR and Truman.

Ivie Anderson
b. 7-10-1905; Gilroy, CA
d. 12-28-1949; LA, CA (complications of asthma)

Singer Ivie Anderson performed with the Duke Ellington Orchestra between 1931-1942, singing such Jazz standards as “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)”, as well as appearing as a singer in the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races.

Marian Anderson
b. 2-27-1897; Philadelphia, PA
d. 4-8-1993; Oregon

Marian Anderson, considered by many to be one of the greatest contraltos ever, gained her first public renown in 1925 when she appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Because of race discrimination in United States Anderson spent the next dozen years touring Europe and South America, where she became a major star. Her concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, was a peak event in raising the national consciousness about race and equality.

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Julia Andrews
b. 10-1-1935; Walton-on-Thames, England

Julie Andrews is a singer best remembered for her roles in musicals like The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady (stage) and Mary Poppins.

Fred and Adele Astaire photographic print

Adele Astaire
b. 9-10-1896; Omaha, Nebraska
d. 1-25-1981; Tucson, AZ

The mother of Adele and Frederick Austerlitz dreamed of a brother - sister act for her talented children although little Fred wasn't so thrilled about dance lessons.

After a career on the Broadway and London stage Adele retired from the team in 1932 and Fred went on to dance alone and with other partners.

Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris, 1893, Giclee Print

Jane Avril (1868-1943) and Louise “La Goulue” Weber (1866-1929) were French ‘Cancan’ dancers whose images, made famous by the paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec reproduced as posters, embodied the seamer side of the European Belle Époque (Fr = Beautiful Era) period that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I.

“La Goulue” at the Moulin Rouge, Giclee Print

“The Galop” from Jacques Offenbach's opera bouffe “Orpheus in the Underworld” is the music most often associated with the “Cancan” which was popular in the dance halls of Paris.