| 词条 | Ada Cherry Kearton |
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| name = Ada Cherry Kearton | image = Ada Cherry Kearton (Ada Forrest).jpg | alt = A black-and-white bust portrait (c. 1910) of Ada Forrest in profile. She wears a gown, and she is wearing her brown hair up. Her autograph is on the lower-right corner of the photo, written in a very clear, round hand. | caption = Autographed portrait {{nowrap|of Kearton, {{circa|1910}}}} | birth_name = Ada Forrest | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1877|07|17}} | birth_place = Congella, Natal, {{nowrap|South Africa}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1966|01|19|1877|07|17}} | death_place = London, UK | nationality = | education = Royal Academy of Music | occupation = Oratorio and concert singer | spouse = (i) Allen Hawes[1] (ii)Cherry Kearton }} Ada Cherry Kearton (born Ada Forrest; 17 July 1877 – 19 January 1966) was a South African classical soprano who sang in concert and oratorio. She made her London debut in 1907 and retired from the stage shortly before her marriage in 1922 to the English wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton. Her 1956 autobiography On Safari recounts their travels together in Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Life and careerKearton was born in Congella, a settlement near Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.[2] She received her first instruction in singing at her convent school in Durban and made her first public appearance at the South African Eisteddfod in Durban when she was 14. She went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London and subsequently studied under Charles Santley, Pietro Neri-Baraldi, and Henry Wood. A soprano,[3] she made her London debut on 24 May 1907, at the Empire Day Concert in Queen's Hall. England was to become her home, although she returned to South Africa several times to perform, including a concert tour in 1909.[4] She appeared numerous times in the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts between 1909 and 1915.[5] During the course of her career she appeared in many other concerts and recitals in England and Scotland, including a solo recital at London's Wigmore Hall in November 1918, where she sang 17th-century songs by William Lawes and Thomas Morley and modern settings of Tennyson's poems. The Wigmore performance did not impress Ezra Pound who wrote a scathing review for The New Age: "As Morley and Lawes scarcely preserved a trace of their beauties in the path of her assault, I fled before she began singing modern settings of Tennyson."[6] She made a last recital tour to South Africa in 1921 before retiring from the concert stage. She changed her name from Ada Forrest to Ada Cherry Kearton in 1922, upon marrying the wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton (his second marriage) and then "devoted her life to her husband and his work".[7] The couple had a pet chimpanzee named Mary who lived with them for six years as "one of the Kearton family". The Keartons were said to have taught Mary to write her name and play three musical instruments. According to the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the chimpanzee would sit and sew with Ada for an hour at a time and accompanied the couple on many of their travels.[7] Ada Kearton's autobiography On Safari, an account of her travels through Africa, Australia and New Zealand with her husband, was published in 1956.[3][8] On 8 October of that year she appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs.[9] Cherry Kearton died in 1940. Ada died in London in 1966 at the age of 88.[2] Bibliography
RecordingsAccording to the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Ada Kearton and Annie Visser were the first major South African singers whose recordings included works in Afrikaans. Both of their recordings were made in London in 1908.[10] Kearton's other recordings were:
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References1. ^Kearton, Ada Cherry. On Safari. London: Robert Hale, 1956 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://apollo.ram.ac.uk/emuweb/pages/ram/partydisplay.php?irn=20281|title=Museum & Collections: Forrest, Ada|publisher=Royal Academy of Music|accessdate=27 July 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/1st-june-1956/6/recollections|title=Recollections|publisher=Catholic Herald|accessdate=2 August 2014}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Wyndham|first=Henry Saxe |title=Who's Who in Music |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinmusic017375mbp |year=1913 |publisher=Small, Maynard & Co.|page=83}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/search/performers/ada-forrest/1|title=Ada Forrest performances in the Proms archive|work=BBC Online|accessdate=27 July 2014}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Pound|first=Ezra|title=Ezra Pound and Music: The Complete Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnXy0TPigw4C&pg=PA148|year=2008|publisher=New Directions Publishing|isbn=0811217841|page=148}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36786597|title=Woman Singer Who Turned Explorer|date=2 January 1936|work=The Courier-Mail|page=16|accessdate=27 July 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shakariconnection.com/cherry-kearton-books.html|title=Cherry Kearton Books|accessdate=25 July 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/06c4739d#p009y95q |title=Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Ada Cherry Kearton |work=BBC Online |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 July 2014}} 10. ^{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Potgieter |editor-first=Dick J. |encyclopedia=Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa |volume=5 |edition=1st |page=303 |year=1972 |publisher=Nasou |location=Cape Town |isbn=0625003217 |oclc=174335956 |quote=Apparently Annie Visser and Ada Forrest were the first major South African musicians whose work included recordings in 'the Taal' (early Afrikaans), both in 1908 in London.}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-HMVNX1912X05-0000A0.pdf|title=His Master's Voice, New Records|date=May 1912|page=9|accessdate=29 July 2014}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gepzongora.hu/pathe%201918.pdf|title=Pathé "Rooster" Complete Catalogue 1917–18|pages=35; 37|accessdate=29 July 2014}} External links
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