Cellist Eleanor Aller Slatkin was born in New York City and in 1939 became first cellist of the Warner Bros. studio orchestra, a position she held for 20 years. As co-founder with her husband of the famed Hollywood String Quartet, she recorded 21 albums and shared a 1958 Grammy Award for their version of Beethoven's Op. 130 Quartet. Long regarded as one of Hollywood's finest soloists, she performed Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Cello Concerto on the soundtrack of "Deception" (1947) and John Williams wrote a solo especially for her in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977). She was active as a freelance session player until shortly before her death in 1995.
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Ms. Bobbye Hall became one of the first female session musicians in a male dominated profession when she moved to Los Angeles in 1970. She remains an active member of AFM Local 47.
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Lindsay Dougherty, first woman Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 399, talks about the importance of members engagement in negotiations and the rise of rank and file activism. #WomensHistoryMonth

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"Recorded music revenues were up 14.3% to around $7.52 billion, while streaming soared nearly 17% to just under $5 billion. Physical revenue is up 18.6% year-over-year to around $1.24 billion, powered mostly by vinyl’s continued growth and a boost in direct-to-consumer sales." ... See more

A late #BlackHistoryMonth post but a great read.
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Remembering the great Shirley Walker on this first day of #WomensHistoryMonth
A long time member of RMA, she was one of the first women composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood picture way back in 1992.
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