Minnie T. Wright Explained

Minnie T. Wright was an American clubwoman and pianist from Boston[1] who composed music. She was one of the organizers seeking a building for African-American woman's club activities in Boston[2] and served as president of the Massachusetts Union of Women's Clubs from 1928 to 1932.[3] [4] An African American, she belonged to the Women's Municipal League,[5] the Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World,[6] and attempted to set up official rules for joining the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, requiring that any applying clubs must be involved in charity and that every woman in the club must attend church.[7] She was elected as president of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs Inc[8] on September 6, 1934.[9]

Her compositions "A Summer Day" and "Love-Song" were recommended as "drawing room" pieces.[10] Louis Armstrong recorded her song "Love Song" as part of his 1933 single "Laughin' Louie", Armstrong historian Ricky Riccardi surmising it was "a theme Armstrong must have played countless times while accompanying silent movies with Tate’s Orchestra".[11] Vince Giordano and Gosta Hagloff identified the piece as one used as silent film accompaniment since the early 1920s, including Charlie Chaplin's Easy Street segment of the 1938 compilation The Charlie Chaplin Festival.[12] [13] [14] Howard Thurston also used "Love Song" as the accompanying music to his illusion "The Levitation of Princess Karnac". Of the piece, Jim Steinmeyer wrote: "The melody and bridges are fascinating; it’s easy to imagine how this was a theatrical showpiece and how it perfectly accompanied the famous illusion."[15] She was stated in The Diapason to have "won considerable reputation as a composer of music of the lighter and popular order".[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: . 1912 . Bulletin of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia . 7 . 3 . . 40.
  2. Book: Daniels, John . 1914 . In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes . . 212.
  3. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1930-pt8-v72/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1930-pt8-v72-6-1.pdf GPO-CRECB-1930-pt8-v72-6-1
  4. Book: Leslie, LaVonne . November 30, 2012 . The History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.: A Legacy of Service . . 9781479722655.
  5. Book: . 1919 . Journal of the National Medical Association . . 182 . 11-12.
  6. Book: Boston's Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor . 2003 . Northeastern University Press . 1-55553-557-7 . Quigley . David . Boston . 209 . 10: The Politics of Sex and Race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 . 50960800 . O'Toole . James . https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/216/edited_volume/chapter/2436146/pdf.
  7. Book: Collier-Thomas, Bettye . February 2, 2010 . Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion . . xxx . 9780307593054.
  8. News: . August 14, 1937 . Northeastern Clubs End Conference In Brooklyn . . November 19, 2022 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: . September 8, 1934 . Mrs. Minnie T. Wright Heads N. E. Federation Of Women's Clubs . . November 19, 2022 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Book: . 1921 . The Musician . Hatch Music Company . 26 . 31.
  11. Web site: 2023-01-18 . Louis Armstrong's 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 161-165 . 2023-04-20 . That's My Home . en-US.
  12. Book: Brothers, Thomas . February 3, 2014 . Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism . . 9780393241457.
  13. Book: Riccardi, Ricky . Heart Full of Rhythm : The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong . Oxford University Press . 2020 . 978-0-19-091411-0 . New York, NY . 138 . 1137836373.
  14. Web site: Riccardi . Rick . 2020-04-13 . Six Minutes With Satch: Laughin' Louie / Tomorrow Night . https://web.archive.org/web/20230323110637/https://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2020/04/six-minutes-with-satch-laughin-louie.html . 2023-03-23 . 2023-03-23 . The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong.
  15. Web site: Steinmeyer . Jim . 2022-10-03 . WHAT WE HIDE: THE MELODY OF THURSTON'S LEVITATION . 2023-04-20 . Jim Steinmeyer . en-US.
  16. . Special Design Meets Needs Of Small City . . . March 1, 1924 . 15 . 4 . November 20, 2022.
  17. Library of Congress Copyright Office . United States Copyright Office . 1912 . Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office, Part 3 . . 7 . 2 . 1481.
  18. Web site: Finding Aid for Hunleth Music Store Sheet Music and Photograph Collection, ca. 1880-1986 . Andree . Dan . Ballard . Jessica . Berthold . Carol . Davis . Cory . Faux . Celia . Lapinski . Jessica . Mayton . Matthew . McComas . Garrett . Nichols . Katie . Pelczar . Somer . Pletka . Holly . Repking . Allison . Vallier . Nolan . 2017 . archon.library.illinois.edu . . November 19, 2022.
  19. Book: Wright, Minnie T.. Love - Song. February 28, 1920. G. Schirmer, Inc. digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu.
  20. Book: Teachout, Terry . 2009 . Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong . . 419 . 9780151010899.
  21. Book: . 1925 . Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3 . . 851, 884.
  22. Book: Library of Congress Copyright Office . United States Copyright Office . 1926 . Catalog of Copyright Entries. Fourth Series . . 85.
  23. Web site: Ferguson . Brent . The Faun . Silent Film Sound & Music Archive . 17 June 2018 . 2023-04-20 . en-US.

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