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CARO ROMA (OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 10, 1866 – OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937)

 

 

 

 

Carrie Northey was born in Oakland, California, the daughter of Vernal Sidney Northey, who operated a forge. She studied in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1888.

Northey began performing on stage at the age of three, and as a teenager toured in Canada as the orchestra conductor for a French opera company. She later became the prima donna of the Henry Savage Opera Company in Boston and sang opera throughout the United States and Europe, where she performed for royalty, including King Edward VII. She made recordings as early as 1899. During World War I, she gave benefit concerts in New Jersey and sang with the United States Marine Band. In 1919, she toured the American South.

Northey wrote songs and poetry as a child and further developed her compositional skills during her performing career. She sang full recitals of her own works as early as 1909 and later presented her compositions in radio concerts. In 1924, she received a “Best Song” award from the American National Composers’ and Authors’ Association. In 1932, at the age of 71, she performed nineteen of her songs at a concert in Los Angeles.

In addition to her Tin Pan Alley songs, Northey wrote poetry, sea songs, and religious works, and composed at least one song cycle.

She married Jesse Douglas. Carrie Northey died after a stroke in 1937 in Oakland, at the age of 72.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Annie Laurie (Scott) 3067 Berliner, London 1899-01

Bohemian Girl (Balfe) I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls 3223 2398 G&T, London 1901-03

Faust (Gounod) Jewel song 3082 767 Berliner, London 1899-01

Il bacio (Arditi) 3075 Berliner, London 1899-01

Maritana (Wallace) Scenes that are brightest 3231 2397 G&T, London 1901-03

Puritani (Bellini) Son vergin vezzosa 3081 Berliner, London 1899-01

Robert le diable (Meyerbeer) Robert, toi que j’aime 33073 Berliner, London 1899-01

Semiramide (Rossini) Grand air 3072 Berliner, London 1899-01