Myra Mortimer

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Myra Mortimer
A white woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a dark translucent dress with a deep-v neckline, and a strand of beads or pearls
Myra Mortimer, from a 1927 publication
BornMarch 26, 1894
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
DiedJanuary 29, 1972 (aged 77)
New York, New York, U.S.
Other namesMyra Mortimer Pinter
OccupationContralto singer

Myra Mortimer (March 26, 1894 – January 29, 1972) was an American contralto singer with an international career in the 1920s.

Early life and education

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Mortimer was born in Spokane, Washington[1][2] and raised in Butte, Montana,[3][4] the daughter of Daniel Mortimer and Dora Angie Munson Mortimer.[5] Her father was a journalist.[6] She initially trained as a pianist in Cleveland, but a hand injury turned her attention to singing.[7]

Career

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Mortimer was a contralto who specialized in German lieder.[3] She toured in Europe in 1925.[6] In January 1926, she made her American debut in Boston.[8][9] She sang in Los Angeles, Spokane and Tacoma in March 1926.[10][11][12]

Mortimer toured again in Europe in 1927, and gave recitals at Town Hall and Carnegie Hall.[13] The New York Times described Mortimer's voice as "one of dramatic capabilities, range and power, with lighter lyric moments."[14] She was a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1927–1928 season.[15] She sang with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and in Bridgeport, Connecticut, before returning to Europe for most of 1928.[16][17]

Jan van Goyen. "Sandy Road with a Farmhouse" (MET, 1972.25), a Dutch painting donated by Myra Mortimer Pinter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mortimer lived and taught voice in London through the 1930s.[18][19] She volunteered for air raid warden service in New York City in 1941.[20]

Publications

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  • "Analyzing Audiences in Many Lands" (1927)[21]

Personal life

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Mortimer was nearly six feet tall.[22] She married her instructor, Willem Giesen, in 1925, in London.[23] She married Austrian businessman Frederick R. Pinter in 1932, also in London.[24] She died in 1972, at the age of 77, in New York City.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "Myra Mortimer" Pacific Coast Musician (September 24, 1927): 6.
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  21. ^ Mortimer, Myra. "Analyzing Audiences in Many Lands" The Musician (October 1927): 35.
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