By John Davis, curator of Special Collections in Performing Arts
Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA), located in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (MSPAL), is proud to announce Gladys Stone Wright: Promoting Women on on the Band Podium, a new exhibit in MSPAL's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Room.
Gladys Stone Wright (b. 1925), a prominent conductor and music educator, is a founding member of Women Band Directors International, and the first woman inducted into the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) membership. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon, she became the first woman high school director in Oregon as director of bands at Elmira Union High School from 1948-1953. Wright proceeded to work as a high school band director in Otterbein, Indiana and West Lafayette, Indiana from 1954 through 1984. Throughout her teaching career, Wright's bands were known for performing at conferences, including the Midwest Clinic and the International Band and Orchestra Conference.
Gladys Stone Wright: Promoting Women on on the Band Podium was curated by Dr. Christian Folk and Dr. Jessica Grimmer, who have each worked as project archivists at SCPA's ABA Research Center. The exhibit surveys Wright's career and numerous contributions to wind band music and advocacy for women band directors, and features archival artifacts from the Gladys Stone Wright papers at SCPA, such as photographs, concert programs, newspaper articles, awards, recordings, and musical compositions.
This exhibit runs through summer 2025.
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