Loraine Wyman
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Loraine Wyman was an American soprano, noted for her concert performances of folk songs, some of which she collected from traditional singers in field work. Paul J. Stamler has called Wyman "the first
Loraine Wyman portrayed in 1914, in a pamphlet directed to concert promoters
Yvette Guilbert
The Théâtre du Gymnase in 1910
Loraine Wyman in performance costume (here: Breton peasant attire), as portrayed some time in the mid-1910s by her friend the photographer Paul Burty-Haviland
Percy Grainger
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Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative care
Loraine Wyman
…singers of individual songs not identified. Nevertheless, Wyman's work was and is appreciated by various individuals. The Australian composer-pianist Percy Grainger, who had a strong interest in folk music and did field work on folk songs himself, performed the Wyman-Brockway settings in public, and noted a kind…
Percy Grainger by Bain News Service
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, designed by John Grainger
An 1880 lithograph of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, venue for Percy Grainger's early concerts, October 1894
Grainger aged 18, towards the end of his Frankfurt years