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Two Blanche Robinsons & two Blanche Williams of the same era
Music careerBefore she became a teenager, Robinson began accepting engagements in concert work, and under the management of Mr. Pardee and Miss Weber toured the Middle West in recital as concert pianist. In 1901 her father's business called him to California, and the family moved to Los Angeles. For nearly three years after arriving in Los Angeles, Robinson did concert work and was soloist on many notable programs. Around 1904, Robinson began specializing exclusively in accompaniment. She accompanied artists that included George Hamlin, Jeannie Jornelli, Marcella Craft, Maggie Teyte, Heimo Haitto, and Pavlowa, Franz Wilcez and Hugo Herrman. For nine years she was the accompanist for the Woman's Lyric Club, and for five years of the Ellis Club. Robinson became a pupil in composition of Frederick Stephenson in Los Angeles. Her The Woman at Home, a chorus for women's voices, was performed with much success by the Lyric Club. Among her better-known compositions are Songs of You, The Mystic Hour, Youth, Fairies, Butterflies, The Dawn of Dawns, and a chorus for men's voices, A Song for Heroes. She performed under the management of Mr. Behymer in concert work. She also performed with Ebell Club, the Friday Morning Club, the Gamut Club, and many leading artists who toured Los Angeles.[2] Family
Robinson died August 19, 1969, in Los Angeles.[4] Her ashes are stored at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, next to those of her daughter Dorothy B. Robinson (1906 Los Angeles – 2004), also a pianist. Music club and sorority affiliationsBoth Blanche Robinson and her daughter, Dorothy Robinson, were members of The Dominant Club, a Los Angeles charitable club of women musicians founded in 1906 that promotes women in classical music and chamber music. Blanche Robinson was a charter member and past president of The Dominant Club.[5] In 1928, Blanche Robinson was inducted as an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota (ΣΑΙ), Sigma Xi Chapter of the University of California, Los Angeles. ΣΑΙ is an international fraternity for women in music. Early educationAt age nine, Robinson's family moved to Chicago; there, she began eight-years of study with William Charles Ernest Seeboeck (21 August 1859 Vienna, Austria – 1907 Chicago), a gifted pianist and composer who had been a student of Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894).[2][6][7] Selected compositions{{div col}}
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Discography{{columns-list|colwidth=100em|{{ordered list|start=1| Songs and Choral Music, (LP) (©1959) Frederick Davis, conductor Women's Lyric Club of Los Angeles M. Hennion Robinson, piano Works by Handel, Schubert, Musorgsky, Britten and Zador[8] | 50th Anniversary Concert (LP) (1954) {{OCLC|55857256}} The Woman's Lyric Club Mrs. M. Hennion Robinson, piano Heimo Haitto, violin Benjamin Edwards, conductor[9] | "Music Spread thy Voice Around," George Frideric Handel | "Come Unto These Yellow Sands," Henry Purcell | "Do Not Go My Love," Richard Hageman (Enid Jacobsen, contralto) | "Spring Morning in the Hills," Elinor Remick Warren | "The Lover's Errand," Mrs. M. Hennion Robinson | "The Snow," Edward Elgar | "Hymn to the Waters," Gustav Holst | "Le Papillon," Felix Fourdrain (Merlyn Pearce, soprano) | "Where Silence Speaks," Benjamin Edwards | "Le Nil," Xavier Leroux | "Spanish Gypsy Girl," Eduard Lassen }} }} }} Participation in a judges panel to select a California state songIn 1921, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer (1862–1947), impresario, and Bessie Bartlett Frankel (Mrs. Cecil Frankel), donated a sum of money to the California Federation of Music Clubs to hold a contest for lyrics to a state song "of real value." The judges were Benjamin Franklin Field (1868–1960), chairman of the federation and chairman of the committee of judges, Grace Atherton Dennen (1874–1927), editor and publisher of The Lyric West, and Blanche Robinson. The judges selected Mary Lennox of San Francisco on January 17, 1922, as the winner for her composition, California, Sweet Homeland of Mine. References1. ^"Blanche Williams, Authoress, Dies" (obituary) The Evening Independent (St. Petersburg, Florida), August 10, 1944, pg. 11, col. 3 {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Blanche}}2. ^1 John Steven McGroarty (1862–1944), Los Angeles: From the Mountains to the Sea, American Historical Society (1921) 3. ^"Invitations Issued," Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1904, pg. A2, col. 4 4. ^"Vital Records: Deaths," Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1969 5. ^"Dominant Club to Honor Member," Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1966 6. ^Alfred Theodore Andreas (1839–1900), History of Chicago, Vol III: Music and Drama, pg. 633, Arno Press, New York (1975) (reprint of the 1884-86 ed. published by A.T. Andreas, Chicago) 7. ^Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Biographical Dictionary of American Music, Parker Publishing Co., West Nyack, NY (1973) {{OCLC|609781|464075491}} 8. ^Copy at the [https://www.loc.gov Library of Congress] {{LCCN|99573794}} 9. ^Copy at the [https://www.loc.gov/index.html Library of Congress] {{LCCN|2004654554}} 9 : 1883 births|1969 deaths|Female classical composers|American classical pianists|American women classical pianists|Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica|20th-century women musicians|20th-century classical pianists|20th-century American pianists |
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