- Winifred Byrd
Winifred Byrd (b.
May 24 ,1884 ,Salem, Oregon - d.April 3 ,1970 ,Los Angeles, California ) [ cite web|url=http://www.salempioneercemetery.org |title=Salem Pioneer Cemetery Data |accessdate=2008-09-10 |work=Oregon Health Division Vital Records and Oregon State Archives ] was a concert pianist and educator.Education
Byrd attended
Willamette University and graduated fromNew England Conservatory (NEC) in 1905. While studying at NEC she won the Spaulding scholarship. [cite book | last = Siller | first = Mabel Harriet | authorlink = | coauthors = Florence Arzelia | title = The History of Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity (1885-1916) | publisher = George Banta Publishing | date = 1917 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ] Byrd taught for a time at NEC shortly after her graduation. [cite book | last = Siller | first = Mabel Harriet | authorlink = | coauthors = Florence Arzelia | title = The History of Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity (1885-1916) | publisher = George Banta Publishing | date = 1917 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ]Byrd studied in Boston with "Madame Hopekirk," Carl Baermann, and Theresa Carreño and eventually taught music at
Olivet College inOlivet, Michigan . [cite book | last = Siller | first = Mabel Harriet | authorlink = | coauthors = Florence Arzelia | title = The History of Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity (1885-1916) | publisher = George Banta Publishing | date = 1917 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ]Performances
Winifred Byrd made her New York debut on
February 27 ,1918 and went on to perform in Chicago, Boston, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco. [ cite journal|title=Winifred Byrd: America's Wonder Pianist|journal=Historic Marion, Volume XV|date=|first=Al|last=Jones|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-08-03 ]Impresario Aaron Richmond presented Byrd in Boston in 1925, billing her as "America's Pianist."James Gibbons Huneker , reviewing a Byrd recital for the New York Times onNovember 4 ,1918 wrote, "She blazes with temperament. She has the energy of a demon..." Hunecker also noted Byrd's, "Buster Brown coiffure ..." [cite news | first=James Gibbons | last=Huneker | coauthors= | title=Recitals of a Day | date=1918-11-05 | publisher= | url =http://proquest.umi.com | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2008-08-03 | language = ]Recordings
Byrd made at least two
Duo-Art reproducing piano rolls, Franz Liszt's "Dance of the Gnomes", from Concert Etudes No. 2, and Chopin's Preludes, Opus 28, No. 1 in C Major and No. 23 in F major, for the Aeolian American Corporation. [cite book | last = Aeolian American Corporation | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Catalog of Music-rolls for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano | publisher = | date = 1924 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ]References
Further reading
Stateman Journal, Salem, Oregon, "Your Salem Family Album," October 26, 1990
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