Eileen Andjelkovitch Explained

Eileen Andjelkovitch
Honorific Suffix:LRAM
Birth Name:Eileen Constance Smith
Birth Date:18 March 1896
Birth Place:Ireland
Death Date:15 October 1941
Death Place:Worthing, England, U.K.
Other Names:Aileen Russell Worby, Eileen C. Tcherniak, Eileen C. Cathie
Occupation:Violinist
Spouse:
  • Vidoslav Anđelković,
  • Grisha Tcherniak

Eileen Andjelkovitch (18 March 1896 – 15 October 1941), LRAM, born Eileen Constance Smith, was a British violinist, music educator, and musical director.

Early life and education

Eileen Russell Worby was usually described as Scottish,[1] [2] [3] but Eileen Constance Smith was born in Ireland, the daughter of Frank and Annie Smith; the Smiths lived in Buckinghamshire by 1901.[4] She was adopted by widowed Scottish-born music teacher Anna Alexander Russell Worby, and was living in London by 1911.[5] Successful examination by the Royal Academy of Music granted her a license to teach violin in 1923.[6] [7] [8]

Career

As a young woman, Eileen Russell Worby played violin at theatres,[9] and was musical director at the Broadway Gardens Kinema in Walham Green in London.[10]

Andjelkovitch was a concert violinist. She gave a concert at London's Aeolian Hall in 1927,[11] and accompanied Welsh baritone Owen Bryngwyn at the same venue in another concert that year.[12] She also made several recordings in the 1920s.[13] "She has an exceptionally rich tone and a great deal of temperament," wrote one reviewer in 1925.[14]

She performed on BBC Radio broadcasts in the 1920s[15] [16] and 1930s.[17] [18] [19] On the London stage, she was musical director of the shows Jane and Genius (1934), The Mask and the Face (1934)[20] and Within the Gates (1934).[21] In 1936, she conducted the King's Theatre Orchestra at a benefit concert in Hammersmith.[22]

Andjelkovitch was also known as a music educator. She was principal of the Fulham Central College of Music in 1927,[23] and in 1932 and 1933,[24] she principal of the Modern School of Music on Fulham Road in London.

Personal life

Russell married a Yugoslavian diplomat, Vidoslav Andjelkovitch, in July 1921.[25] [26] [27] She married fellow musician Gregori (Grisha) Tcherniak in 1934.[28] She married a third time, to musician George Ernest Cathie. In 1941 she died at the age of 45, at a nursing home in Worthing.[29]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=bu1aZkW29xwC&dq=Scottish%20Journal&pg=PA231 "Madame Eileen Andjelkovitch"
  2. News: 1927-04-25 . Not so Foreign as her Name . 6 . South Wales Evening Post . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  3. June 14, 1928 . Foreign News in Brief: A New Violinistic Star . Musical Courier . 96 . 24 . 44 . Internet Archive.
  4. 1901 England Census, via Ancestry.
  5. 1911 England Census, via Ancestry
  6. News: 1932-05-13 . Youthful Prodigies; Modern School of Music Students . 6 . Westminster and Pimlico News . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  7. 1 March 1924 . Royal Academy of Music . Musical Times . 65 . 19 . 194 . Internet Archive.
  8. Book: Royal Academy of Music . List of licentiates. 1919 to 1925 (inclusive) . 1925 . 32 . Internet Archive.
  9. News: 20 March 1919 . Round the London Theatres . 92 . The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  10. News: 18 March 1920 . Broadway Gardens Kinema, Walham Green . 135 . The Kinematograph Weekly . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  11. News: 1927-04-27 . Miss Eileen Andjelkovitch . 8 . The Daily Telegraph . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1927-07-05 . Noted Welsh Singer; Mr. Owen Bryngwyn at the Aeolian Hall . 12 . Western Mail . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Web site: Eileen Andjelkovitch . 2023-09-16 . Discogs . en.
  14. September 1925 . The August Records . The Gramophone . 3 . 4 . 159.
  15. News: 1927-12-29 . Russian Song Recital . 8 . The Guardian . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 13 August 1928 . Frae a' the Airts . 9 . Edinburgh Evening News . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  17. https://books.google.com/books?id=g26rEAAAQBAJ&dq=Eileen+Andjelkovitch&pg=PA807 "The B.B.C. Programmes"
  18. 22 January 1936 . B.B.C.: A Studio Concert . The Indian Listener . 1 . 3 . 172.
  19. News: 1932-02-12 . Owing to Repeated Misunderstandings . 7 . Chelsea News . 2023-09-17 . Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 19 April 1934 . The Royalty: The Mask and the Face . 10 . The Stage . September 17, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  21. Book: Wearing, J. P. . The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel . 2014-05-15 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-8108-9304-7 . 339, 345–346, 353 . en.
  22. News: 28 November 1936 . Post Office Orphan Homes . 24 . Middlesex County Times . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  23. News: 23 December 1927 . Fulham College of Music Concert . 6 . Fulham Chronicle . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  24. News: 20 January 1933 . Modern School of Music; Fine Concert at Fulham Town Hall . 6 . Fulham Chronicle . September 16, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  25. August 24, 1922 . Personal and General . The Near East . 22 . 246.
  26. News: 30 April 1927 . A Serbian Affair . 4 . Westminster Gazette . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  27. News: 9 May 1927 . Not a Foreigner . 10 . Dundee Courier . September 17, 2023 . The British Newspaper Archive, via The WIkipedia Library.
  28. Grisha Tcherniak in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005; married in April 1934 to Eileen C. Andjelkovitch; via Ancestry
  29. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 for Eileen C Cathie, via Ancestry

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Eileen Andjelkovitch".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.