Why today's Google Doodle celebrates Amanda Aldridge, the pioneering British opera singer and composer
Under the
pseudonym Montague Ring, Aldridge was an Afro-British opera performer and
teacher. Today's Google Doodle honors Amanda Aldridge, a British composer,
teacher, and opera soprano.
On this day
in 1911, Aldridge performed a piano recital at Queens Small Hall, the original
home of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, London's pre-war
major musical venue.
Here's
everything you should know about her.
Under the
pseudonym Montague Ring, Aldridge was an Afro-British opera performer and
teacher.
She was born
in London on March 10, 1866, to Ira Frederick Aldridge, an African American
actor who appeared in Shakespeare plays, and Amanda Brandt, a Swedish actress.
Luranah
Aldridge, an operatic contralto, was one of her sisters and came close to
becoming the first artist of African descent to appear at Bayreuth Opera House.
However, due to illness, she was forced to withdraw.
Aldridge
went on to study voice at the Royal College of Music under Jenny Lind and
George Henschel before pursuing a career as a vocalist at the Royal
Conservatory of Music in London.
A throat
injury caused by laryngitis cut short her career, but she was able to build a
name for herself as a teacher, pianist, and composer.
Among her
noteworthy students were lyric tenor Roland Hayes and composer Lawrence
Benjamin Brown.
Who was Amanda
Christina?
Amanda Christina
Elizabeth Aldridge, sometimes known as Amanda Ira Aldridge, was a British opera
singer and instructor who wrote love songs, suites, sambas, and light symphonic
compositions under the pseudonym Montague Ring. She was born on March 10, 1866
and died on March 9, 1956.
Amanda
Aldridge was born in Upper Norwood, London, on March 10, 1866, the third child
of African American actor Ira Frederick Aldridge and his Swedish second wife,
Amanda Brandt.
Rachael and
Luranah were her sisters, and Ira Daniel and Ira Frederick were her brothers.
At the Royal
College of Music in London, Aldridge studied voice under Jenny Lind and George
Henschel, as well as harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Bridge and Francis
Edward Gladstone.
Amanda
Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, sometimes known as Amanda Ira Aldridge, was a
British opera singer and instructor who wrote love songs, suites, sambas, and
light symphonic compositions under the pseudonym Montague Ring. She was born on
March 10, 1866, and died on March 9, 1956.
Amanda
Aldridge was born in Upper Norwood, London, on March 10, 1866, the third child
of African American actor Ira Frederick Aldridge and his Swedish second wife,
Amanda Brandt.
Rachael and
Luranah were her sisters, and Ira Daniel and Ira Frederick were her brothers.
At the Royal
College of Music in London, Aldridge studied voice under Jenny Lind and George
Henschel, as well as harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Bridge and Francis
Edward Gladstone.
When her
sister, opera singer Luranah Aldridge, became ill, she took care of her,
declining an offer to attend the second Pan-African Congress from W. E. B. Du
Bois in 1921 with a note explaining: "As you know, my sister is extremely
helpless." I'm only able to leave for a few minutes at a time.
Muriel Smith
sang Montague Ring's "Little Southern Love Song" on the British show
Music for You, where Aldridge made her first television appearance at the age
of 88. She died in London on March 9, 1956, a day before her 90th birthday,
after a brief illness.
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