Edith Noyes Greene Explained

Edith Noyes Porter
Birth Name:Edith Rowena Noyes
Birth Date:26 March 1875
Birth Place:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Death Date:June 25, 1956
Nationality:American
Other Names:Edith Noyes Porter (1898–1908)
Occupation:Composer, music educator, pianist

Edith Rowena Noyes Greene (March 26, 1875 – June 25, 1956) was an American composer, music educator, clubwoman, and pianist, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Early life

Edith Rowena Noyes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Claudius Noyes and Jeanette Mabel Pease Noyes.[1] Her mother was better known as Boston contralto singer Jeanette Noyes Rice.[2] Edith Noyes studied piano with Edward MacDowell and composition with George Whitefield Chadwick.[3]

Career

Edith Noyes began publishing her works while she was a teenager. She composed songs, hymns, instrumental works for piano and violin, an operetta, Last Summer, and an opera, Osseo.[4] [5] Last Summer was produced in 1900 as a benefit for the Quincy Hospital.[6] She also taught piano in Boston.[7]

In 1895, Noyes started the first MacDowell Club, a music performance and appreciation club in Boston, named as a tribute to her piano teacher.[8] [9] [10] She was founder (in 1911) and president of the city's Music Lovers' Club,[11] [12] and was a member of the Chromatic Musical Club.[13]

Edith Noyes Greene promoted the work of disabled "cowboy" painter Floyd Niles Walser.[14] In 1929, she hosted a weekly radio show highlighting Boston musicians and events.[15] In 1933, she directed a concert benefiting the Peabody Home for Crippled Children.[16]

Personal life

Edith Noyes married educator Henry Whitcomb Porter in 1898. They had a son, John Whitcomb Porter, and divorced in 1908.[17] [18] She married again, to fellow pianist Roy Goddard Greene, in 1909. On the Greenes' wedding trip to Europe in 1909, they stayed with Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Switzerland and she studied with conductor Emil Paur.[19] Roy Greene died in 1946, and Edith Noyes Greene was listed in his death notice as his survivor.[20]

Her house is included in historical tours of Framingham.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Charles Claudius Noyes.. 1918. Current Literature Publishing Company. 460-461.
  2. Book: Elson, Louis Charles. The History of American Music. Edith Noyes Porter.. 1915. Macmillan. 307.
  3. February 1901. Mrs. Edith Noyes Porter. Musical Record and Review. 12. Smith. Dexter. Deland. Lorin Fuller. Tapper. Thomas. Hale. Philip.
  4. May 29, 1907. Edith Noyes Porter as Composer and Woman. Musical Courier. 10.
  5. Ford, Karrin Elizabeth. "Diverging Currents: Women Composers, Musical Institutions, and The Criticism of the 'Old Guard' in Fin de Siècle Boston" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut 2011): 59. via ProQuest.
  6. News: Comedy and Opera; Entertainment in Aid of Quincy Hospital. December 15, 1900. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  7. May 15, 1907. Boston. Musical Courier. 31.
  8. April 3, 1907. The MacDowell Club's Concert. Musical Courier. 36.
  9. Yackley, Elizabeth A. "Marian MacDowell and the MacDowell Clubs" (M. A. Thesis, University of Maryland 2008): 16-17.
  10. News: Boston's Prominent Musical Organizations. January 2, 1902. Boston Post. December 5, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
  11. June 1921. New England Entertains National President. The Musical Monitor. 483.
  12. December 1919. Boston Club Celebrates Armistice Day. Musical Monitor. 9. 108.
  13. December 15, 1900. A Young Woman Composer. Boston Home Journal. 56. 14.
  14. News: Historical Society Plans House Tour. December 30, 2001. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 81. Newspapers.com.
  15. News: Program for 'Shut-Ins'. November 30, 1929. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 21. Newspapers.com.
  16. News: Vendome Concert and Fair. December 6, 1933. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 19. Newspapers.com.
  17. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40113830/frances_noyes_porter_1908/ "Wives Testify"
  18. News: Must Pay Wife Alimony. February 12, 1908. The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
  19. News: Untitled news item. May 23, 1909. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 51. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: Death notice: Greene. January 5, 1946. The Boston Globe. December 5, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.

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