A brief history -- Ladies of the great salons: Aspasia ; Isabella d'Este ; Lucrezia Borgia ; Diane de Poitiers ; Marquise de Rambouillet ; Queen Christina of Sweden ; Ninon de Lenclos ; Claudine de Tencin ; Marie du Deffand ; Misia Sert ; Coco Chanel ; Princesse de Polignac ; Comtesse de Polignac ; Gertrude Stein -- Elegant patronesses of the old world: Eleanor of Acquitaine ; Catherine de Medicis ; Queen Elizabeth I ; Empress Maria Theresa ; Madame de Pompadour ; Nadezhda von Meck ; Queen Elisabeth of Belgium ; Bathsabee de Rothschild -- Wives and lovers: George Sand ; Clara Schumann ; Cosima Wagner ; Sara Bull ; Alma Mahler ; Olga Koussevitzky ; Aniela Rubinstein ; Galina Rostropovich ; Felicia Bernstein ; Martita Casals -- Inspired teachers: Isabella Vengerova ; Rosina Lhevinne ; Estelle Liebling ; Olga Samaroff ; Nadia Boulanger ; Dorothy DeLay ; Helen Coates ; Phillis Curtin --

(cont.) Patronesses in the United States: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge ; Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist ; Gertrude Robinson Smith ; Lila Bell Acheson Wallace ; Alice Tully ; Elizabeth Nitze Paepcke ; Ladies of the Hollywood Bowl ; Ladies of the Metropolitan Opera ; Others who made a difference -- Creative administrators: Clara Damrosch ; Helen Mulford Thompson ; Sarah Caldwell ; Beverly Sills ; Loretta Dranoff ; Others -- Remarkable mothers and sisters: Maria Anna Mozart ; Fanny Mendelssohn ; Rildia Bee Cliburn ; Jennie Resnick Bernstein ; Shirley Anne Bernstein -- Choreographers and their contributions: Isadora Duncan ; Martha Graham ; Agnes de Mille.