Tarrant, Robert Hayne

Robert Hayne Tarrant was an important New Orleans impresario. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Tarrant began his career in New Orleans about 1912. He brought to the city such artists as Riccardo Stracciari, Geraldine Farrar, John McCormack, Frances Alda, Arthur Shattuck, and Anna Pavlowa and such groups as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Tarrant died on 10 March 1965 at the age of eighty-three.

From the description of Robert Hayne Tarrant Papers, 1916-1930. (Loyola University). WorldCat record id: 755732212