Elsie Barge Explained

Elsie Barge
Other Names:Elsie Barge Wilson, Elsie Barge Hennington
Birth Name:Elsie Thomas Barge
Birth Date:October 12, 1898
Birth Place:Cordele, Georgia, USA
Death Date:December 16, 1962
Death Place:Jackson, Mississippi
Occupation:Pianist, music educator, clubwoman

Elsie Barge (October 12, 1898 – December 16, 1962) was an American pianist, music educator, and clubwoman.

Early life

Elsie Thomas Barge was born in Cordele, Georgia and raised in Brookhaven, Mississippi,[1] [2] the daughter of Thomas Cicero Barge and Laura Douglas Wilkins Barge. Her father was a businessman.[3] [4] Both of her parents were from Georgia. Her grandfather James Madison Barge was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War. As a young woman, she performed with her younger sister Frances, a violinist.[5]

Barge graduated from Brookhaven High School in 1914.[6] She studied piano with Theodor Bohlmann of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,[7] and with Harold von Mickwitz and Rudolph Ganz in Chicago.[8]

Career

Barge was a concert pianist and performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Eugène Ysaÿe.[9] She accompanied singers including Frances Ingram.[10] She was a piano teacher at the Chicago Musical College,[11] and at Stuart Hall in Virginia. She ran a music school,[12] was a Baptist church music director,[13] and arranged and performed in musical programs in St. Petersburg, Florida, from 1928 into the 1930s.[14] [15]

Later in life, Barge taught music in the schools of Brookhaven.[16] She was also a speaker for the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.[17] She organized the Fine Artists Series in Brookhaven, and founded the town's music club. She was active in the Mississippi Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs,[18] [19] and the Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs.[20] [21] A scholarship to attend the latter federation's Transylvania Music Camp was named for Barge.

Personal life

Elsie Barge married twice, first to Scottish-born Chicago press agent Gardner Frederick Wilson in 1925.[22] They had a daughter, Patrycia (1926–2000).[23] She married again to chiropractor Morris Cook Hennington Sr.[24] Elsie Barge Hennington died in 1962, aged 64 years, at a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.[25]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1925-03-01. Griefs and Thrills of the Runaway Bride's Solo Honeymoon. 122. The Cincinnati Enquirer. 2021-01-29. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: March 5, 1921. Lovely Tribute to Elsie Barge. 4. Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. January 29, 2021. NewspaperArchive.com.
  3. News: 1962-12-19. Hennington Funeral Held in Brookhaven. 8. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1940-05-15. Barge Services Held Downstate. 7. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-31. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: January 14, 1920. Miss Elsie Barge, Artist, Presents Musical Program at Baptist Church. 4. Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. January 29, 2021. NewspaperArchive.com.
  6. News: 1954-10-17. Brookhaven to Honor Class of '14. 9. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  7. August 1917. At the Cincinnati Conservatory. The Musical Monitor. 6. 677.
  8. March 10, 1922. Elsie Barge. Music News. 14. 28.
  9. News: February 5, 1921. Second Number Whitworth Artist Course 1920-'21. 4. Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. January 29, 2021. NewspaperArchive.com.
  10. December 2, 1920. Frances Ingram Well Advertised. Musical Courier. 81. 44.
  11. July 5, 1923. Chicago Summer Master Schools Open with Large Enrollments. Musical Courier. 87. 44.
  12. News: 1929-04-14. Elsie Barge Has Recital. 12. Tampa Bay Times. 2021-01-29. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1929-10-06. Elsie Barge Opens Her Music School for Second Season. 6. Tampa Bay Times. 2021-01-29. Newspapers.com.
  14. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NPRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4lQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1939%2C4448881 "Program Tonight at Pennsylvania"
  15. News: February 21, 1929. Musical Program is Presented to Senior High School Classes. 4. The Evening Independent. January 29, 2021. Google News.
  16. News: 1962-12-18. Dr. Elsie Hennington is Buried. 7. Enterprise-Journal. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1951-05-23. Magnolia Planning Hospitality Week. 17. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1950-10-27. District Four, BPW Club, Holds Annual Meeting. 11. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  19. News: 1951-07-11. Magnolia B. & P. W. Club Officers. 1. Enterprise-Journal. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1951-03-03. Music Festival is Underway at Woman's College. 12. Hattiesburg American. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  21. News: 1952-03-07. 147 Young Pianists Register for Festival. 6. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: 1951-03-28. G. F. Wilson, 54, Game Commission Adman, is Dead. 2. The Tampa Tribune. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  23. News: 1946-07-15. On Honeymoon. 19. Chicago Tribune. 2021-01-30.
  24. News: 1965-03-22. Dr. M. C. Hennington Sr. Dies. 8. Enterprise-Journal. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.
  25. News: 1962-12-20. Dr. Hennington Dies Sunday. 16. Columbian-Progress. 2021-01-30. Newspapers.com.

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