Miirrha Alhambra

Miirrha Alhambra

Pauline Joutard (1890–1957) was a French-born pianist who performed under the stage name Miirrha Alhambra.[1]

Her sister Flora Joutard and she had studied in Bad Homburg before touring Europe[2][3][4] and South America[5][6][7][8][9][10] together in the early 1900s. A friend took her to Merida to play where she would meet and marry her husband[citation needed], Domingo Fernando Evia y Barbachano (1883–1977), a wealthy Mexican landowner who was a member of two families that have been prominent in the politics and culture of Yucatán since the mid 19th century[citation needed], one of which, the Barbachanos, has been described[by whom?] as "one of the most powerful of Yucatán’s oligarchy[citation needed].

She lived with her husband for some years in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. There she gave birth (on July 30, 1910) to her son Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, the future photographer known professionally as Edgar de Evia (1910–2003)[citation needed].

On 30 June 1912, she arrived with her husband and two-year-old son in New York City aboard the liner "Progreso" [11] and lived in the United States for the rest of her life[citation needed].

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References

  1. ^ For information about her recitals in America, both on stage and radio, see the following: The New York Times, 17 June 1928 (p. 133), 13 February 1931 (p. 21), 13 November 1932 (p. X7), and 15 November 1932 (p. 19).
  2. ^ Breithaupt<, Rudolf Maria (1912). Die natürliche Klaviertechnik. Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger. p.679:[1]
  3. ^ Nieman, Walter (1919). Meister des Klaviers. Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler.  p.225:[2]
  4. ^ Die Musik Erster Jahrgang, 1901, p. 539
  5. ^ Elgueta, Sara Guerin de (1928). Actividades femeninas en Chile. La Ilustración. 
  6. ^ Salas, Eugenio Pereira (1957). Historia de la Musica en Chile, 1850-1900. Universidad de Chile. 
  7. ^ Sergio, Montecino M. (1985). Entre músicos y pintores. Editorial Admadeus.  p.18
  8. ^ Brenner, Alfonso Cahan (1967). Pequeña biografia de un gran teatro. Aranciia.  p.60
  9. ^ Universidad de Chile Instituto de Extension Musical, Facultad de (1960). Revista musical chilena. Universidad de Chile.  p.63
  10. ^ Encina, Francisco Antonio; Leopoldo Castedo (1982). Resumen de la historia de Chile. Zig-Zag.  p. 253
  11. ^ According to the ship's manifest, which can be accessed at http://www.ellisisland.org, several members of the Evia family immigrated from Mexico to New York at the same time, including her husband's sister Rosario Evia de Espejo with her own husband and children. In the manifest, Alhambra's husband Domingo gave his occupation as farmer. According to the manifest, the family's surname was Evia, not de Evia.
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