Marcella Lindh
Marcella Lindh (May 19, 1867 – July 30, 1966) was the stage name of an American soprano singer who was Rose Jacobson Jellinek in private life.
Early life
[edit]Rose Jacobson was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the daughter of Johanna Cohen Jacobson and Solomon E. Jacobson. Her parents were both born in Mecklenburg, Germany.[1] She trained as a singer in Berlin.[2]
Career
[edit]Marcella Lindh was the first soprano to sing with the John Philip Sousa Band, joining when the band formed in 1892 and staying into 1894.[3] She sang with the Sousa band at the St. Louis World's Fair in the autumn of 1893.[4] A Pennsylvania newspaper during this time praised her voice as "one of the few incomparable soprano voices of the generation...cultivated to such a nicety of perfection, as makes it a charm to the cultivated ear."[5]
She sang with Hinrich's Grand Opera in Boston in the spring of 1893.[6] She performed in a series of Wagner operas in German with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch,[7] at the Boston Theatre[6] and at the Metropolitan Opera House.[8] Soon after, she moved to Budapest (in Austria-Hungary) with her husband and young son. She taught voice at a conservatory there,[9] and continued performing.[10] During World War I she was "an official visitor for the American Red Cross mission in Hungary."[11]
Marcella Lindh returned to the United States in 1920,[11][12] and again in widowhood during World War II. She lived in Detroit, Michigan in her later years.[13]
Personal life
[edit]Rose Jacobson married Markus Erwin Marcel Jellinek, a theatre manager and publisher from Budapest. Their son, E. Morton Jellinek, became a noted expert on alcoholism.[14] They also had a daughter, Edna.[1] Marcella Lindh was widowed when her husband died in 1939, in Budapest. She died in 1966, aged 99 years, in a Michigan nursing home.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Christine Bariahtaris, "The Family of E. M. Jellinek: Documenting a History" Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 36th Annual SALIS Conference (May 1, 2014): 55-61.
- ^ "An American Forest Bird" New-York Tribune (March 3, 1895): 21. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Jack Kopstein, "Songbirds of the John Philip Sousa Band" Altissimo! Recordings (March 20, 2013).
- ^ "The Exposition at St. Louis" Frank Leslie's Magazine (October 1893): 511.
- ^ "Chats by the Way" Wilkes-Barre Daily Times (December 3, 1892): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ^ a b Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby, The History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901 (Houghton Mifflin Company 1908): 404, 424.
- ^ "The Season of Wagner Opera" New York Times (December 1, 1894): 4. via ProQuest
- ^ Harry P. Mawson, "Wagner Opera in German" The Peterson Magazine (March 1895): 283.
- ^ "Eddy Brown Admires Marcella Lindh Jellinek" Musical Courier (July 24, 1919): 35.
- ^ Alma Mahler-Werfel, Diaries, 1892-1902 (Cornell University Press 2000): 75. ISBN 9780801486647
- ^ a b "Tells of Conditions in Hungary Under Soviet" Indianapolis News (June 30, 1920): 15. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Mme. Lindh Endorsed by Hubay" Musical Courier (September 29, 1921): 31.
- ^ Paul E. Bierley, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa (University of Illinois Press 2006): 68. ISBN 9780252031472
- ^ "Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek Dead at 73; Leader in Alcoholism Research" New York Times (October 23, 1963): 41. via ProQuest
- ^ "American Lark Dies at Age 99" Hillsdale Daily News (August 1, 1966): 9. via Newspapers.com
- 1867 births
- 1966 deaths
- 19th-century American women opera singers
- 20th-century American women opera singers
- American expatriates in Austria-Hungary
- American expatriates in Germany
- American operatic sopranos
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- Musicians from Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Singers from Michigan
- American women in World War I
- Classical musicians from Michigan