| 词条 | Louisa Melvin Delos Mars |
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Louisa Melvin Delos Mars (c.1860 – after 1926[1]) was a late 19th century African-American singer and composer who was active in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. She was one of the first black women to achieve recognition as a composer, and was one of the first black students to graduate from the New England Conservatory. She is best known for composing five full length operettas. Life and careerBorn Louisa Melvin in Providence and later a resident of Boston, Melvin Delos Mars was one of the first black women to achieve recognition as a composer.[2] She was one of the first black individuals to graduate from the New England Conservatory and first achieved notice in the 1880s singing alongside her sister, Carrie Melvin Lucas, who played cornet and violin.[2][2] Her sister was the wife of vaudeville entertainer Sam Lucas, and their daughter and Louisa's niece, Maria Lucas, also became a popular trombonist, pianist, and conductor who eventually became the music director at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.[3][4][5] Melvin Delos Mars was the first African-American woman to have an opera she composed produced: Leoni, the Gypsy Queen in Providence, Rhode Island in 1889.[6] She went on to compose and star in four more full length operettas which were staged in either Boston, Massachusetts or Providence, Rhode Island between 1880–1896, including Fun At A Boarding School, and Love In Disguise; or, Things Are Not What They Seem. None of her works survive.[7] Personal lifeMelvin Delos Mars was married to William Delos Mars (1856–1927), and the couple had two sons who were born in Providence: Charles (born May 19, 1883) and Christian (born December 23, 1886). Not much is known about her activities or whereabouts after 1896.[1] References1. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBkKAQAAMAAJ&q=Louisa+Melvin+Delos+Mars&dq=Louisa+Melvin+Delos+Mars|title=Encyclopedia of American Opera|author=Ken Wlaschin|publisher=McFarland & Company|year= 2006|page=228}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Melvin Delos Mars, Louisa}}2. ^{{cite work|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-342678978/aria-for-ethiopia-the-operatic-aesthetic-of-pauline|title=Aria for Ethiopia: The Operatic Aesthetic of Pauline Hopkins's of One Blood|author=Nicole N. Aljoe|work=African American Review|date=Fall 2012|volume=45|number=3}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSvxJtF3_fUC&pg=PA240|title=The Music of Black Americans: A History|author=Eileen Southern|page=240|year=1997|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company}} 4. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=35WfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22daughter%22+%22sam+lucas%22&dq=%22daughter%22+%22sam+lucas%22|title=Feel the Spirit: Studies in Nineteenth-century Afro-American Music|author=George Russell Keck, Sherrill V. Martin|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1988|page=101}} 5. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=23Gr_y8fS_sC&pg=PA66|title=Ellington: The Early Years|author=Mark Tucker|page=66|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1995}} 6. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfrG1IKZ9f8C&pg=PA221|title=Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction|author=Ellen Koskoff|page=221|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2005}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIPDlKlchQ0C&pg=PA111|title=American Opera|author= Elise Kuhl Kirk|page=111|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2001}} 15 : 1860 births|Year of death unknown|African-American female composers|African-American composers|American female composers|American female classical composers|American classical composers|African-American classical composers|New England Conservatory alumni|Musicians from Boston|Musicians from Providence, Rhode Island|19th-century American composers|19th-century classical composers|19th-century women musicians|Classical musicians from Massachusetts |
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