Was a professor from the University of South Dakota, Dr. Marjorie Eastwood Dudley (1891-1961), the first woman in America to write a symphony for a major orchestra? (The South Dakotan, November 1977, p. 3) It would be fun to find what symphony she wrote and for which orchestra. Maybe the answer is in her papers, which were at the Archives and Special Collections but now reside at the National Music Museum.
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According to the book “The American Symphony” by Neil Butterworth, p. 220, Marjorie Eastwood Dudley wrote her Symphony in E-flat Major, op. 12, in 1938.
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