Musicologist Adrienne Fried Block, (Ph.D. City University of New York) was Adjunct Professor of Music and Co-Director of the research project “Music in Gotham: The New York Scene 1862–1875” at the Graduate Center/CUNY, a documented history of music in performance. She taught, lectured and published articles on women in American music, including two prize-winning books, Women In American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature (with Carol Neuls-Bates) and Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Works of an American Composer.
Adrienne Fried Block passed away on April 5, 2009.
