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cessed March 14, 2023, https://doi-org.proxy-um. researchport.umd.edu/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630. article.06403. 3 Rebecca Clarke, I Had a Father Too , unpublished mem oir, Rebecca Clarke and James Friskin Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, 158–159. 4 Tertis’s first performing tour in the Americas was not until 1923, when Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited him to play in the Berkshire Festival. See John White, Lionel Tertis: The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola, (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2007), 68–69. Primrose was only age twelve when Clarke left on her first tour of the United States in 1916. 5 Clarke, I Had a Father, Too , 141–152. 6 Ibid., 178–179. 7 Ibid., 178–179. 8 Ibid., 181. 9 Advertisement, “Women Writer’s Suffrage League at Home,” Votes for Women , January 20, 1911, 260. 10 “Royal Academy of Music,” Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 38, no. 651 (1897): 316. 11 “Advertisement and Notices,” Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , October 22, 1912; “The Nettleship Quartet: String Concert at Ramsgate,” East Kent Times and Dis trict Advertiser , November 12, 1913, 7. 12 Clarke, I Had a Father Too , handwritten notes, 11¬–12. 13 Clarke, I Had a Father Too, 13; Walter Wilson Cob bett (1847–1937), though not a professional musician, compiled, authored, and edited Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, which continues to be a useful resource for today’s researchers. Rebecca Clarke was well acquainted with Cobbett and wrote the article on the viola in the Cyclopedic Survey. 14 “Muriel Draper Papers,” Collection Overview, Archives at Yale, accessed March 28, 2023, https://archives.yale. edu/repositories/11/resources/1624. 15 Diane Walsh, personal communication, March 27, 2023. 16 “Mr. A Trowbridge’s Concert,” Wells Journal , Novem ber 14, 1913, 5; “Concert at the Guildhall,” Shepton Mallet Journal , November 14, 1913, 8. 17 M. B. Stanfield, “Rebecca Clarke: Violist and Com poser” The Strad 77 (December 1966), 297. 18 “Chamber Music Proves Delight,” San Francisco Exam iner , September 21, 1916, 8. 19 Ray C. Brown, “Music Echos From the Realm of Tone,” Oakland Tribune , October 22, 1916, 29. 20 “Why Do Not More Women Take Up the Viola?” San Francisco Examiner , October 15, 1916, 64.

21 “Music School Settlement Notes,” New York Age , Janu ary 11, 1917, 6. 22 Advertisement, “General News and Notes in the World of Music,” New York Times , 25 Mar 1917, 90. 23 Maria Foltz Baylock, “Women Musicians in Early Twentieth-Century London: The String Players in the English Ensemble,” (Thesis, Southern Methodist Uni versity, 1998), 58. 24 “Society Women Will Hear Miss Matthison,” Hartford Courant , September 14, 1917, 7. 25 “Music: Miss Rebecca Clark Demonstrates Beauty of the Viola, Instrument Rarely Heard Alone,” New York Tribune , February 14, 1918, 9. 26 “Noted Musicians to Play at the Concert Tonight,” Berkshire Eagle , July 22, 1918, 12. 27 “Capacity House Gives Rapturous Aloha to Artists,” Honolulu Advertiser , November 2, 5. 28 “Rebecca Clarke Will Be Soloist Friday Evening,” Ho nolulu Star-Bulletin , October 30, 1918, 6. 29 “Viola Recital at Ealing Green,” Acton Gazette and Ex press , November 16, 1928, 3. 30 “New Trio Will Play 3 Attractive Programs,” Detroit Free Press , December 7, 1919, C1; “Music,” Buffalo Courier , November 20, 1919, 83; “Musicale at Brook lyn Music School. 31 Clarke, Diary, December 3, 1919; March 22, 1920. 32 “Gives Her Own Sonata: Rebecca Clarke, Viola, Plays with Winifred Christie, Pianist,” New York Times , Janu ary 27, 1920, 18. 33 Clarke, Diary, January 26, 1920. 34 “Miss Clarke Interprets Her Own Composition,” New York Tribune , January 27, 1920, 13. 35 White, Lionel Tertis , 59–60. 36 “Contingencies,” Sackbut 1, no. 3 (London: July 1920), 109; “New Viola Music,” Morning Post , Jun 1, 1920. 37 “The Music Society,” Daily Telegraph , March 19, 1921, 11. 38 “Gave Excellent Concert,” Berkshire Eagle , September 22, 1921, 11. 39 “Berkshire Artists Heard in the Orient,” Berkshire Eagle , June 4, 1923, 14. 40 Clarke, Diary, May 20, 1923. 31 “Mukle Concert is Much Enjoyed by Honolulu Audi ence,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin , June 29, 1923. 32 “Collection Description: Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music (1918–38),” Concert Programmes: a Database of Collections of Concert Programmes Held in European Libraries, Archives and Museums, accessed May 16, 2022, http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/ search/verb/GetRecord/4287/.

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