Amanda Aldridge Why a Google Doodle is celebrating the trailblazing British pieces songster and musician moment

 

Amanda Aldridge Why a Google Doodle is celebrating the trailblazing British pieces songster and musician moment 

 

 

 Aldridge was an Afro- British pieces songster and schoolteacher, who composed under the alias Montague Ring 

 moment’s Google Doodle celebrates Amanda Aldridge( Photo Google) 

 moment’s Google Doodle is celebrating British musician, schoolteacher and pieces songster Amanda Aldridge. 

 

 On this day in 1911, Aldridge gave a piano recital at London’spre-war star musicale venue, Queens Small Hall, the original home of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic symphonies. 

 Then’s what you need to know about her. 
 

 Who was Amanda Aldridge? 

 Aldridge was an Afro- British pieces songster and schoolteacher, who composed under the alias Montague Ring. 

 

 She was born in London on 10 March 1866 to African- American actor Ira Frederick Aldridge, who performed in Shakespeare plays, and his alternate woman

 Amanda Brandt, from Sweden. 

 One of her sisters was the melodramatic contralto Luranah Aldridge, who nearly came the first pantomime of African heritage to perform at Bayreuth Opera House. still, she was forced to pull out due to illness. 

 

 When she grew up Aldridge went on to study voice under Jenny Lind and George Henschel at the Royal College of Music, before pursuing a career as a voice at London’s Royal Conservatory of Music. 

 Her career was elided by a throat injury caused by laryngitis, but she was suitable to make her name as a schoolteacher, piano player and musician. 

 

 Lyric tenor Roland Hayes and musician Lawrence Benjamin Brown were among her notable scholars. 

 

 What's Amanda Aldridge best known for? 

 Aldridge released over 30 songs and dozens of necessary tracks under her alias. 

 She combined colorful metrical influences and stripes with poetry from black American authors to produce romantic parlour music, a kidney popular with the middle class at the time. 

 

 Parlour music was distance music played at home with a piano, accompanied by lyrics. Its fashionability was due to record players not yet being extensively available. 

 numerous of her songs explored her African- American heritage – commodity she was keen to pass down to her scholars of analogous descent. 

 

 Aldridge’s 1913 piano composition “ Three African Balls ”, inspired by West African drumming, is her most notorious piece. 

 She appeared on British TV for the first time at the age of 88, on the show Music for You. American songster Muriel Smith performed her song, “ Little Southern Love Song ”.