Women Who Dared: Trailblazing 20th Century Musicians

Volume 1 features violinist Maud Powell and trumpeter Edna White. Maud was the first instrumentalist to record for RCA Victor in 1904. Edna played the first solo trumpet recital in Carnegie Hall in 1949. Their personal lives were tumultuous. Maud ignored her mother's objections to marry the man she loved. Edna left her first husband to marry an opera singer.