NEW Music Book - From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall : Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra   Maria Noriega Rachwa, a teacher and musicologist, has written a remarkable new book,  From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra  (2015:Second Story Press, Toronto ) about the first Canadian orchestra ever to perform in Carnegie Hal, in 1947l.  And one of its members also became the first Canadian black women to play a symphony in Carnegie Hall.   Formed in 1940, the orchestra survived for almost thirty years. Book is well-documented with photographs and research.  Book Website ABOUT THE BOOK:  The all-women symphony orchestra that revolutionized music in Canada . In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play “masculine” instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women’s Symphony...