A life of song / [by] Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.

Author/creator Kennedy-Fraser, Marjory
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1929.
Descriptionviii, 198 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : 3 portrait (including frontispiece) map ; 18 cm
Subjects

Contents Part I. The Kennedys. My childhood ; My first professional tour ; The Kennedy family ; To Australia ; In Melbourne ; 'Bush' travel ; New South Wales and Queensland ; Tasmania, South Australia, and New Zealand ; To California, U.S.A., and Canada ; Concert tours in the British Isles ; The Cape ; Italy ; The tragedy at Nice ; Vocal study in Paris: Gaelic songs ; Australia, New Zealand, and Canada revisited: my father's death -- Part II. Life as teacher. Marriage and widowhood ; Teacher in Edinburgh ; I lecture on the art song -- Part III. To the Hebrides. To the Hebrides: Eriskay and the island songs ; First Hebridean recitals: Eriskay a second time ; Barra: collecting on the east coast of Scotland ; Collaboration with Kenneth Macleod -- Part IV. Fruition. My first volume: London recitals ; Barra again, a Waulking, Benbecula, a bridal procession ; Eigg ; Visits to America ; London recitals: the seal-woman opera ; The Lewes and Skye ; The seal song ; Conclusion.
Local noteJOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY--Inscribed letter "from his nephew David Kennedy Fraser, April 1929" on inside liner paper and fly leaf.

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