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Thank you, Suzanne and Thomas. Great leads. Happy New Year! Cheers, Richard On 2019-01-03 5:13 a.m., Suzanne Wint wrote: > Richard - > > Also mention of one of her performances in this dissertation. I don't have > full access, but it might give details of a recording, or have a > discography or something. > > Dissertation > The Norwegian male chorus movement in America: A study > <https://stolaf-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_proquest303739249&context=PC&vid=01BRC_SOC&lang=en_US&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,aagot%20lunde&sortby=rank&facet=rtype,include,dissertations&offset=0> > Knudsen, Alf Leiren, Terje I. (advisor) > ProQuest Dissertations Publishing 1989 > ProQuest Dissertations and Theses > "singing of Grieg's Landk.i enn i no with Sven Wolf as the soloist, John R. > Ortegren, conductor, and Aagot Lunde singing Ole Bu 1 1 ' s Sater..i en > tens" > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 4:09 AM Suzanne Wint <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Just had a quick peek in a database on St Olaf College's website - they >> have a pretty robust history of Norwegian American music (and plain >> history, too). You might contact their library to see if anyone has ideas >> that aren't catalogued. The school was founded to educate immigrants from >> Norway, so it's kind of their thing. >> >> Anyway, just a cursory search turn up this quick mention: >> "Notes and News" The Woman's Journal, 08 February 1902, Vol.XXXIII(6), >> p.45 >> >> Good luck! >> >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:20 PM Richard L. Hess <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, All, >>> >>> I received a question from a relative of mine requesting my assistance >>> in finding a recording. I was the wrong person to ask as I have been >>> focusing on the technical side of ARSC-land, but I know many of you >>> focus on the content side, so I hope someone would have some ideas. FYI, >>> my relative is a forensic pathologist. >>> >>> "I have just written a paper about one of my pathology heroes, James >>> Homer Wright, the founding pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital >>> in Boston." >>> >>> "Wright married Aagot Lunde, a Norwegian contralto, who moved to Boston >>> circa 1890 and performed extensively in Boston and New York City, and >>> also around the US, especially in cities with large numbers of resident >>> Scandinavians. She mostly sang Norwegian, Swedish, or other Scandinavian >>> music, usually at small venues but occasionally large ones. >>> >>> "Wright and Lunde were married on Christmas Day in 1901. After that, >>> she became a socialite and only performed occasionally, usually at >>> charity events. >>> >>> "Do you know whether there any kind of database that might be able to >>> tell me whether there is any recording of Aagot Lunde that is extant? >>> She sometimes performed with her sister Sigrid Lunde, a soprano." >>> >>> THANKS in advance, and Happy New Year! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] >>> Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 >>> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm >>> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Suzanne Wint, Ph.D. >> Independent Ethnomusicologist >> West St. Paul, MN >> > > -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.