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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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11906, where she created the Goose Girl in Humperdinck's "Königskinder"; sang principal soprano part in Charpentier's "Julien," Ariane in Dukas' "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue" in first Am. productions: especially noted as Cio Cio San in Puccini's "Madame Butterfly"; répertoire includes Marguerite, Manon, Micaela, Mignon, Elizabeth, Tosca, Zerlina, Juliet, Gilda, Violetta, Carmen, Thaïs, etc. Royal Prussian "Kammersängerin." Address: Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Home: 8 W. 74th St., New York City.
3FARRINGTON, Flora More:
4Mezzo-soprano and teacher; b. Denver, Colo., 1892, d. William R. and Anna R. (More) Farrington; P.D.B. Colorado Teachers' Coll., 1910; P.D.M., 1911; B.A., 1912; stud. vocal and pub. sch. music; stud. w. Miss Settrington in London, Mme. De Griener in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1913-4; unmarried. Music supervisor in Colorado pub. schs., 2 yrs.; soloist in churches and clubs. Mem. Tuesday Musical Club, Denver, musical leader Salida (Colo.) Woman's Club. Address: Salida, Colo. Home: 1415 Ogden St., Denver, Colo.
6FARWELL, Arthur:
7Composer; b. St. Paul, Minn., Apr. 23, 1872, s. George L. and Sara G. (Wyer) F.; ed. Baldwin Sem., St. Paul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, special studies in electrical engineering; stud. music w. Homer Norris in Boston, E. Humperdinck and Hans Pfitzner in Germany, Alexandre Guilmant in Paris. Lecturer on music Cornell Univ., 1899-1901; estab. Wa-Wan Press, Newton Centre, Mass., for the publication of American compositions and Indian music, 1901; travelled in the far West, 1903, to study Indian music, and again for the Am. Inst. of Archeology to prepare a report on the songs of the Indians of the Southwest and Spanish-Californian folksongs, 1904; founded Amer. Music Soc., 1905 (pres. same); mem. ed. staff "Musical America," 1909-15; supervisor of municipal concerts, New York, 1910-3; dir. Music Sch. Settlement, New York, since 1915; pres. Community Chorus (Harry Barnhart, cond.) since 1915; v.-pres. Civic Orchestral Soc., 1917; pres. Nat. League for Community Music, 1917-. Comp.: songs, including "A Ruined Garden," "Drake's Drum," "Love's Secret," "Requiescat," "Sea of Sunset," "Song of the Deathless Voice," "Inketunga's Thunder Song," "The Old Man's Love Song," "Bird Dance Song," 2 Negro Spirituals, 2 Spanish-California Folk Songs, "Hours of Grief," "The Black Face," etc.; f. piano: "Symbolistic Study, No. 1," "Owasco Memories," American Indian Melodies, "Dawn," "Ichibuzzi," "The Domain of Hurakan," "Navajo War Dance," "Pawnee Horses," "Impressions of the Wa-Wan Ceremony," Plantation Melody, Prairie Miniature; f. orch.: "Dawn and the Domain of Hurakan"; Love Song (from an unfinished suite); Cornell Academic Overture, etc.; incidental music for "Joseph and His Brethren" and "The Garden of Paradise" (New York, 1913); music for the pageants of Meriden, N. H., and Darien, Conn. (1913), for the Shakespeare masque "Caliban" (New York, 1916, etc.), and the community masque "The Evergreen Tree"; community songs, "March! March!" and "After the Battle." Address: Music School Settlement, 55 East 3rd St., New York.
9FAUCETTE-PARKER, Margaret Augusta:
10Pianist, organist, teacher, singer (high lyric soprano); b. Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 3, 1888, d. Whitfield A. and Amelia (Taylor) F.; ed. Meredith Coll., 1908-11; diploma there in piano and singing; post-grad. work in both; stud. singing w. Helen Marie Day and Mrs. Horace Dowell; w. George Clerbois in Paris; piano w. George Schoenefeld in Paris; organ at St. Mary's Sch., Raleigh, N. C.; m. Prof. Bartholomew Moore Parker, Nov. 10, 1915. Soloist Tabernacle Baptist Ch., Raleigh, N. C., 1913-4; dir. voice dept. Chowan Coll., Murfreesboro, N. C., 1914-5; priv. studio in Raleigh, 1912-4; soloist at North Carolina Summer Sch. at Chapel Hill, 1914; concertized through North Carolina, 1912-5. Mem. Woman's Club. Address: 119 E. Edenton St., Raleigh, N. C.
12FAUCHEY, Paul:
13Composer; b. 1858. Former chef de chant at the Opéra-Comique, brought out a 3-act opéra-comique populaire, "La Carmagnole" (Paris, Folies-dram., 1897). Address: Paris.
15FAURÉ, Gabriel-Urbain:
16Composer; b. Pamiers, Ariège, May 13, 1845; stud. w. Niedermeyer, Dietsch, and Saint-Saëns. Organist at Rennes, then at the churches of St. Sulpice and St.-Honoré, Paris. Maître de chapelle at the Madeleine. Paris, 1877, organist, 1896; prof. of composition, counterpoint, fugue, etc., 1896, succeeded Massenet at the Cons.; succeeded Dubois as dir of the Cons., 1909; elected mem. Académie (successor to Reyer); commander of the Légion d'Honneur, 1910. Comp.: 1-act opera, "l'Organiste" (Paris, 1887); operas "Prométhée" (Beziers, 1900), and "Pénélope" (Paris, 1913); incid. music to Dumas' "Caligula," Haraucourt's "Shylock," Maeterlinck's "Pelléas et Mélisande" and Clémenteau's "Le Voile du Bonheur"; "La Naisance de Venus," for soli. chor. and orch.; "Chœur des Djinns"; Requiem; symphony in D min.; vln. concerto; orchestral suite in F; 2 piano quartets (C min., G min.); Élégie for cello; Berceuse and Romance for vln. and orch.; a well-known vln. sonata (1878); a piano quintet in D min.; songs; duets, etc. Took the Prix Chartier for chamber music in 1885 and 1893. Address: Conservatoire National, Paris, France.
18FAY, Amy:
19Pianist and teacher; b. Bayou Goula, La., May 21, 1844; d. Rev. Charles and Charlotte Emily (Hopkins) F., ed. Cambridge, Mass., and Berlin; stud. w. Tausig and Kullak in Berlin, Liszt in Weimar; unmarried. Début as pianist in New York, 1876, soloist with Theodore Thomas Orch., 1877; played at Worcester musical festivals; toured U. S.; has given evening piano recitals in New York public schools under auspices of Bd. of Education. Engaged in piano teaching and lecturing in New York; introduced the Deppe Method of piano teaching in U. S. Author: "Music-Study in Germany," (Chicago, 1881; 20th ed., 1912), a book which has been widely read, and translated into French and German. Pres. Women's Philharmonic Soc. of
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