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词条 Constance Balfour
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = Constance Balfour
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| alt = Constance Balfour, from a 1918 publication.
| caption = Constance Balfour, from a 1918 publication.
| birth_name = Constance Lell Loucks
| birth_date = 1880
| birth_place = Michigan
| death_date = January 28, 1965
| death_place = San Luis Obispo, California
| nationality = American
| other_names = Constance Balfour Hitchen (after second marriage)
| occupation = singer
| years_active =
| known_for =
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Constance L. Balfour (1880 – January 28, 1965) was an American soprano singer, based in California.

Early life

Constance Lell Loucks was born in Michigan and lived in Lincoln, Nebraska[1][2] and in Houston, Texas as a young woman.[3][4] She studied voice in Paris, Berlin, and London, and toured Italy, Germany, and South Africa as well, giving concerts.[5][6]

Career

In 1909 and 1910, Balfour headed the Constance Balfour Concert Company, a small touring group.[7][8] She toured the East Coast of the United States in 1918-1919.[9] During that time, she appeared in the summer "Stadium concerts" in New York City.[10] During World War I she sang at a concert for sailors at Pelham Bay Naval Station,[11] for soldiers at Fort Totten on Long Island,[12] and at war relief concerts for Liberty Loans and the American Red Cross.[13][14]

She returned to California by the end of 1919.[15] On Christmas Day 1919, she sang at the first outdoor concert given by the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.[16] She sang for the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club in 1920, accompaned by composer Charles T. Ferry,[17] and at the Easter sunrise service in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.[18][19] She sang a program of songs by Ralph Cox for the MacDowell Club in Los Angeles, with the composer accompanying her on piano.[20] She sang songs by women composers, including Grace Adele Freebey,[21] Helen Lukens Gant,[22] Gertrude Ross,[23] Josephine Johnston,[24] and Bessie Bartlett Frankel.[25] She also gave voice lessons, from a studio at Blanchard Hall in Los Angeles.[26]

Balfour sang on radio in 1923.[27] She toured Europe and studied in Italy and France from 1924 to 1927, while her teenaged daughter was there to study music and rest.[28][29] In 1931 she gave a concert series in Los Angeles.[30]

Personal life

Constance Loucks was married to fellow singer Henry Balfour, also billed as Henri Le Bonti, when the couple appeared together in Los Angeles in 1907[31] and in 1910.[32] They were divorced, apparently amicably, by 1915, saying "“Why should we dislike each other? We sincerely admire one another as man and woman, as fellow beings and as artists".[33] She was married to Albert Hitchen later in life. She died in 1965, aged 84 years, at her home in San Luis Obispo, California.[34]

Her daughter Eveline Alberta Balfour (1907-1993), a pianist and singer, was in headlines as a teenager in 1924, when she went missing for a few days and was rumored to be kidnapped.[35][36][37] She was found in an altered mental state, "victim of adolescent breakdown," according to the Los Angeles Times.[38] Soon after, she and her mother went to Paris for a few years.[28] She married a French man, Andre Gaudet, in 1927;[39] she was later known as Yvonne Doray[40] and Yvonne Barishaw.[41]

References

1. ^[https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-nov-29-1901-1074626/ "Choir Gives Musical"] Lincoln Nebraska State Journal (November 29, 1901): 3. via NewspaperArchive.com
2. ^[https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-sep-05-1937-1074518/ "Gutzmer Studio"] Sunday Journal and Star (September 5, 1937): 25. via NewspaperArchive.com
3. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29159655/constance_balfour_1918/ "Constance Balfour Was Highly Praised"] The Houston Post (April 10, 1918): 8. via Newspapers.com
4. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29160080/mrs_constance_l_balfour_1909/ "Concert Daughters of the Covenant"] The Houston Post (February 21, 1909): 39. via Newspapers.com
5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=-QAtAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA528&ots=AtBtTwogSB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=PA528#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Advertisement"] Musical Monitor (August 1915): 528.
6. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29153740/constance_balfour_1909/ "The Balfour Concert Company"] The Neodesha Daily Sun (December 6, 1909): 2. via Newspapers.com
7. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29153665/constance_balfour_1909/ "Tonight"] The Chickasha Daily Express (November 26, 1909): 8. via Newspapers.com
8. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29153862/constance_balfour_1910/ "Great Singer Will Appear in Paducah"] News-Democrat (March 5, 1910): 5. via Newspapers.com
9. ^[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19190610.2.220&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 "Constance Balfour Engaged by Theater"] Los Angeles Herald (June 10, 1919): 24. via California Digital Newspaper Collection{{open access}}
10. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA14&ots=TN3dj17AeB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA10-PA14#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Constance Balfour in Stadium Debut"] Musical America (July 12, 1918): 14.
11. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA14&ots=TN3dj17AeB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA12-PA19#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Delights Pelham Sailors"] Musical America (July 27, 1918): 19.
12. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA14&ots=TN3dj17AeB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA5-PA38#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Trio of Artists Brings Musical Cheer to Fort Totten Troops"] Musical America (June 8, 1918): 38.
13. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA14&ots=TN3dj17AeB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA5-PA33#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Constance Balfour, Soprano, Winning Recognition in East"] Musical America (June 8, 1918): 33.
14. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA14&ots=TN3dj17AeB&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA5-PA43#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Open Red Cross Building"] Musical America (June 8, 1918): 43.
15. ^[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MP19190831.2.52&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 "Miss Balfour to be Soloist at Belvedere"] Morning Press (August 31, 1919): 5. via California Digital Newspaper Collection{{open access}}
16. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=gNtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA2-PA44#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Tandler's Outdoor Concert"] Musical America (January 17, 1920): 44.
17. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-w6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA7-PA42&ots=oElR9Mzp5e&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA7-PA42#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Constance Balfour Sings for Club"] Musical Courier (February 19, 1920): 42.
18. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-w6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA7-PA42&ots=oElR9Mzp5e&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA19-PA54#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Easter Sunrise Services"] Musical Courier (May 6, 1920): 54.
19. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=gNtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA24-PA14#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Los Angeles Enjoys Concerts at Dawn"] Musical America (April 17, 1920): 14.
20. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-w6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA7-PA42&ots=oElR9Mzp5e&dq=Constance%20Balfour&pg=RA22-PA47#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour&f=false "Ralph Cox Popular in Los Angeles"] Musical Courier (May 27, 1920): 47.
21. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=N-U6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA24-PA12#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Notes"] Musical Courier (December 21, 1922): 12.
22. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29160170/contance_balfour_1928/ "Cadman Club in Fine Program"] The Los Angeles Times (March 18, 1928): 67. via Newspapers.com
23. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=N-U6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA22-PA48#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Ross Giving Composition Recitals"] Musical Courier (December 7, 1922): 48.
24. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29160787/contance_balfour_1916/ "Society"] The Los Angeles Times (February 16, 1916): 18. via Newspapers.com
25. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=N-U6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA4-PA38#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Los Angeles the Scene of State M. T. Convention"] Musical Courier (August 3, 1922): 38.
26. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=7SIqQHZL2_wC&dq=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&pg=RA12-PA33#v=onepage&q=Constance%20Balfour%20soprano&f=false "Notes"] Musical Courier (October 2, 1919): 33.
27. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29153979/constance_balfour_1923/ "Boredom Hosts Routed by KHJ"] The Los Angeles Times (March 14, 1923): 21. via Newspapers.com
28. ^1 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29154018/constance_balfour_1924/ "Singer to Live in Rome and Paris"] The Los Angeles Times (September 14, 1924): 32. via Newspapers.com
29. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29153934/constance_balfour_1927/ "Constance Balfour Resumes High Place"] The Los Angeles Times (December 25, 1927): 53. via Newspapers.com
30. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29154071/constance_balfour_1931/ "Soprano Begins Concert Series"] The Los Angeles Times (October 25, 1931): 39. via Newspapers.com
31. ^Genevra Johnstone-Bishop, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29160295/constance_balfour_1907/ "The Musical World"] Los Angeles Herald (December 6, 1907): 6. via Newspapers.com
32. ^Florence Beard Lawrence, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29159908/contance_balfour_1910/ "Musical"] The Los Angeles Times (October 11, 1910): 5. via Newspapers.com
33. ^[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19151222.2.128&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Constance+Balfour-------1 "L. A. Singers in Unique Pact"] Los Angeles Herald (December 22, 1915): 1. via California Digital Newspaper Collection{{open access}}
34. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29159425/constance_balfour_1965/ "Constance Balfour, Opera Star, Dies"] Oakland Tribune (January 29, 1965): 23. via Newspapers.com
35. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29161454/eveline_balfour_1924/ "Missing Daughter of Singer; Search for Girl Extended"] The Los Angeles Times (January 5, 1924): 23. via Newspapers.com
36. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29161671/eveline_balfour_1924/ "Missing Girl is Thought Kidnaped"] Lincoln Journal Star (January 14, 1924): 2. via Newspapers.com
37. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29161830/eveline_balfour_1924/ "Police Drop Quiz in Adventure of Eveline Balfour"] The Los Angeles Times (January 10, 1924): 30. via Newspapers.com
38. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29161959/eveline_balfour_1924/ "Girl Composer, 16, Loses Mind"] The Los Angeles Times (January 7, 1924): 1. via Newspapers.com
39. ^Juana Neal Levy, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29162495/eveline_balfour_1927/ "Society"] The Los Angeles Times (March 11 1927): 22. via Newspapers.com
40. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29162326/eveline_balfour_1935/ "Contest Winner Sings"] The Los Angeles Times (August 4, 1935): 44. via Newspapers.com
41. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29159473/constance_balfour_1965/ "Opera Singer Constance Balfour Dies"] The Los Angeles Times (January 29, 1965): 40. via Newspapers.com

External links

  • [https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz002db9zc/ An informal photograph of Constance Balfour], from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives at UCLA.
  • [https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz002dbb70/ A photograph of Constance Balfour's daughter, Eveline], from about 1924, from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives at UCLA.
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