Homage to Jeanne Boyd : song for high voice with piano / poem by Scharmel Iris ; music by James Wade. 1960, Feb. 2-4-5.

Wade, James T.

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Boyd, Jeanne, 1890-1968

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Commissioned by the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. Originally composed for String Quartet, 2 Flutes, Clarinet and Piano, 1943. First performance at the First Festival of Women Composers, Basle, Switzerland, 1950. This transcription for full orchestra 1951. Four movements of the orchestral version first performed Chicago, 10 March 1959, American Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Russell Harvey conductor. Dedicated to the memory of Lewis Carroll.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the d...

Iris, Scharmel, 1889-1967

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Chicago poet. Born in Italy in 1889 as Frederico Scaramella, Iris and his mother arrived in Chicago when he was three. The name Scharmel Iris was the choice of a young, hopeful poet whose first efforts were published in 1905 and who continued publishing until the 1960s. With only a small talent, but obsessed with a need to be regarded as a major American poet, Iris resorted to imposture, plagiary and forgery to concoct a fantasy role for himself as an impoverished, negle...