Mary Carr Moore

Mary Carr Moore (born Mary Louise Carr ; born August 6, 1873 in Memphis , Tennessee , † January 9, 1957 in Inglewood , California ) was an American composer and music teacher.

Life

She completed her vocal training with Henry Beckford Pasmore in San Francisco before studying composition with John Haraden Pratt . At the age of nineteen she composed her first opera ( The Oracle ) based on her own libretto. In 1898 she married Dr. John Claude Moore.

In 1912 her opera Narcissa: Or, The Cost of Empire , which took up the events of the Whitman massacre , premiered in Seattle . Mary Carr Moore herself conducted the premiere as well as new performances in San Francisco (1925) and Los Angeles (1945). In 1930 she received the David Bispham Memorial Medal for this work . In addition to other operas, she composed orchestral works, chamber music, 65 songs, 15 choral works and piano pieces.

In 1928 she founded the Mary Carr Moore Manuscript Club . She taught at the Olga Steeb Piano School (1926–1942) and at Chapman College (1928–1947). In 1936, Chapman College awarded her an honorary doctorate in music. In the late 1930s she was active in organizing the California Society of Composers .

Works

The Oracle , Opera, 1894
Narcissa, or The Cost of Empire , Opera, 1911
The Leper , Opera, 1912
Memories , Opera, 1914
Harmony , Opera, 1917
The Flaming Arrow, or, The Shaft of Ku 'Pish-ta-ya , Opera, 1922
A Chinese Legend, "The Immortal Lovers," pantomime, 1922
David Rizzio , Opera, 1928
Los Rubios , Opera, 1931
Flutes of Jade Happiness , Opera, 1933
Légende Provençale , Opera, 1935

literature

Catherine Parsons Smith, Cynthia S. Richardson: Mary Carr Moore. American Composer . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1987, ISBN 0-472-10082-3 .

Web links

List of works at: musicalics.com
Mary Carr Moore in: American National Biography

annotation

↑ Most sources give January 9 as the date of death (New Grove, American National Biography, Dictionary of American Classical Composers, Norton / Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, US Opera and Findagrave). Occasionally January 11th is also found. Most sources name Inglewood, California as the place of death; others state Ingleside, California.

Individual evidence

↑ Cynthia S. Richardson, Catherine Parsons Smith: Moore, Mary (Louise) Carr. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
^ Mary Carr Moore at: US Opera
↑ Cynthia S. Richardson, Catherine Parsons Smith: Moore. Mary (Louise) Carr . In: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers . Norton, New York 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 331-333 .

personal data
SURNAME	Carr Moore, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mary Louise Carr (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memphis (Tennessee) , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1957
Place of death	Inglewood , California

[2] Most sources give January 9 as the date of death (New Grove, American National Biography, Dictionary of American Classical Composers, Norton / Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, US Opera and Findagrave). Occasionally January 11th is also found. Most sources name Inglewood, California as the place of death; others state Ingleside, California.

[Grove-1] Cynthia S. Richardson, Catherine Parsons Smith: Moore, Mary (Louise) Carr. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[3] Mary Carr Moore at: US Opera

[Grove-Norton-4] Cynthia S. Richardson, Catherine Parsons Smith: Moore. Mary (Louise) Carr . In: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers . Norton, New York 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 331-333 .