Marcella Lindh (May 19, 1867 – July 30, 1966) was the stage name of an American soprano singer who was Rose Jacobson Jellinek in private life.
Early life
editRose Jacobson was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the daughter of Johanna Cohen Jacobson and Solomon E. Jacobson. Her parents were both born in Mecklenburg, Germany.[1] She trained as a singer in Berlin.[2]
Career
editMarcella Lindh was the first soprano to sing with the John Philip Sousa Band, joining when the band formed in 1892 and staying into 1894.[3] She sang with the Sousa band at the St. Louis World's Fair in the autumn of 1893.[4] A Pennsylvania newspaper during this time praised her voice as "one of the few incomparable soprano voices of the generation...cultivated to such a nicety of perfection, as makes it a charm to the cultivated ear."[5]
She sang with Hinrich's Grand Opera in Boston in the spring of 1893.[6] She performed in a series of Wagner operas in German with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch,[7] at the Boston Theatre[6] and at the Metropolitan Opera House.[8] Soon after, she moved to Budapest (in Austria-Hungary) with her husband and young son. She taught voice at a conservatory there,[9] and continued performing.[10] During World War I she was "an official visitor for the American Red Cross mission in Hungary."[11]
Marcella Lindh returned to the United States in 1920,[11][12] and again in widowhood during World War II. She lived in Detroit, Michigan in her later years.[13]
Personal life
editRose Jacobson married Markus Erwin Marcel Jellinek, a theatre manager and publisher from Budapest. Their son, E. Morton Jellinek, became a noted expert on alcoholism.[14] They also had a daughter, Edna.[1] Marcella Lindh was widowed when her husband died in 1939, in Budapest. She died in 1966, aged 99 years, in a Michigan nursing home.[15]
References
edit- ^ a b Christine Bariahtaris, "The Family of E. M. Jellinek: Documenting a History" Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 36th Annual SALIS Conference (May 1, 2014): 55-61.
- ^ "An American Forest Bird" New-York Tribune (March 3, 1895): 21. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Jack Kopstein, "Songbirds of the John Philip Sousa Band" Altissimo! Recordings (March 20, 2013).
- ^ "The Exposition at St. Louis" Frank Leslie's Magazine (October 1893): 511.
- ^ "Chats by the Way" Wilkes-Barre Daily Times (December 3, 1892): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ^ a b Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby, The History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901 (Houghton Mifflin Company 1908): 404, 424.
- ^ "The Season of Wagner Opera" New York Times (December 1, 1894): 4. via ProQuest
- ^ Harry P. Mawson, "Wagner Opera in German" The Peterson Magazine (March 1895): 283.
- ^ "Eddy Brown Admires Marcella Lindh Jellinek" Musical Courier (July 24, 1919): 35.
- ^ Alma Mahler-Werfel, Diaries, 1892-1902 (Cornell University Press 2000): 75. ISBN 9780801486647
- ^ a b "Tells of Conditions in Hungary Under Soviet" Indianapolis News (June 30, 1920): 15. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Mme. Lindh Endorsed by Hubay" Musical Courier (September 29, 1921): 31.
- ^ Paul E. Bierley, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa (University of Illinois Press 2006): 68. ISBN 9780252031472
- ^ "Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek Dead at 73; Leader in Alcoholism Research" New York Times (October 23, 1963): 41. via ProQuest
- ^ "American Lark Dies at Age 99" Hillsdale Daily News (August 1, 1966): 9. via Newspapers.com