| 词条 | Ada Jordan Pray |
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Adagerta "Ada" G. Jordan Pray (April 9, 1884 – August 25, 1961), B.L., was a composer, teacher and concert singer, the director of the Ada Jordan Pray Music School. Early lifeAdagerta "Ada" G. Jordan Pray was born on April 9, 1884, in Livermore, California.[1] Her parents Wendell Jordan (1837-1901) and Gertrude Elizabeth Bearer (1858-1941), were of French-Swiss and German extraction. They moved to the United States before the Civil War and had a successfully brewery in Livermore.[2] She graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1906.[1] CareerShe was a composer, teacher and concert singer. She was the director of Ada Jordan Pray Music School. She was writer of songs and pianoforte music, she composed: "Veit Knickerbocker," (operetta)[2], Dancing with you, song, words by Maud Gilbert,[1], Swiss Echo Song, words and music,[2], Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sang by Connie Von Loben Sels,[3] and "Schubertiana" : symphony movement in rondo form : to be used with unison chorus if desired.[4] She was a lecturer on Appreciation of Music.[1][5] For a women of her time, she travelled extensively abroad.[1] She was the president of the Social Center of the Oroville Monday Club[1] and of the National Music-Dramatic Honor Society in San Francisco.[6] She was vice-president of the California Music Teachers' Association.[7] She was a member of the Durham Woman's Club and the Butte County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.[1][2] In 1918 she supervised the addition of the phonograph collection to The Solano County Library, in collaboration with the Victor Phonograph Company.[8] In 1936 she was appointed to supervise the promotion of musical activities in her district in Butte County, California, where she was assigned the role to make sure all of these musical activities in the district were being directed and developed properly.[9][10] Personal lifeAda Jordan Pray moved to Oroville, California, in 1916. In 1915 she married Lee Walker Pray (1881-1958).[11] In 1919 she moved to San Francisco and lived in Stanford Road.[2] She died on August 25, 1961, and is buried at Chico Memorial Mausoleum and Crematory, Chico, California.[12] LegacyThe Ada Jordan Pray Papers are preserved at the Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.[13] References1. ^{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3|date=1941|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office|page=869|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=Ai9jAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA869|accessdate=30 September 2017}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Pray, Ada Jordan}}2. ^{{cite journal|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries, Sr.3, Vol.12, Pt.5, No.2, 1958|date=1958|url=https://www.myheritage.it/research/collection-90100/raccolta-di-fonti-pubblicate-a-stampa?itemId=66638654&action=showRecord|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 3. ^{{cite journal|title=Mrs. Irving Shepard of Glen - 12 Jul 1953, Sun • Page 17|journal=The Press Democrat|date=1953|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14096045/the_press_democrat/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|title="Schubertiana" : symphony movement in rondo form : to be used with unison chorus if desired|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/schubertiana-symphony-movement-in-rondo-form-to-be-used-with-unison-chorus-if-desired/oclc/50902789|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 5. ^{{cite journal|title=Mrs. Hawkins at National Meeting - 19 Nov 1944, Sun • Page 10|journal=The Eugene Guard|date=1944|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14095998/the_eugene_guard/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 6. ^{{cite journal|title=Tryouts Tomorrow for Musicians in S.F. - 07 Apr 1939, Fri • Page 26|journal=Oakland Tribune|date=1939|page=26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14096121/oakland_tribune/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Pianist to Give Concert - 25 Nov 1933, Sat • Page 11|journal=Oakland Tribune|date=1933|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14096310/oakland_tribune/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Branches sprout as communities show enthusiasm|url=http://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/weblog/more/participation_authors_growth_of_library_system/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=News of Our Past By Chico Enterprise-Record|url=http://www.chicoer.com/20110516/news-of-our-past|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 10. ^{{cite journal|title=Government to Provide Funds for Musicians - 23 Jul 1936, Thu • Page 4|journal=Plumas Independent|date=1936|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14096097/plumas_independent/|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin|first2=Charles A|title=Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America|date=1928|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=8 August 2017}}{{PD-notice}} 12. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite journal|title=Monday, August 28, 1961, pg. 1B|journal=Chico Enterprise-Record|date=1961|page=1B}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=Ada Jordan Pray Papers|url=http://dsc.calstate.edu/1203?r=cam|accessdate=30 September 2017}} 3 : 1884 births|1961 deaths|People from Livermore, California |
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