Description

LESTER DONAHUE (1892 – 1964)

He was born into a family of Charles E. and Jennie Margaret (McCarthy) Donahue. A protégé of the actress Madame Helena Modjeska, Donahue studied piano in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Switzerland. His teachers included Martin Krause, Egon Petri and Rudolph Ganz. His first concert tour was in the United States, with the coloratura soprano Ellen Beach Yaw; this was only the first of many tours throughout the United States and also Europe for Donahue in the 1910s and 1920s. He was a member of Los Angeles Municipal Art Commission (served as president 1948-1953).

TRACKLIST

1. 5931 DUO-ART BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. l, d “Edward”
2. 6194 DUO-ART BORTKIEWICZ – Etude, Op. 15, No. 8
3. 6310 DUO-ART MENDELSSOHN – Wedding March; Elfin Chorus (“Midsummer Night’s”)
4. 61713 AMPICO Rhapsodie No. 3 C Major (Dohnanyi)