Fraser Gange Career Chronology

next prior TEACHING 1932-1962
1933 (age 46)
Mar 1 - FG song recital, Juilliard course of chamber music concerts. Viola Peters accomp.
Aug 4? - Recital for Juilliard Summer School
Nov 3 - Recital, Peabody
Dec 26 - FG/AE at Damrosch dinner

1934 (age 47) Photo of Gange from Juilliard Newsclipping
Jul/Aug - Recital for Juilliard Summer School, date unknown
Dec - FG added to voice dept at NY College of Music

1935 (age 48)
Mar 1 - Recital, Peabody
Mar 11 - Beethoven Assn. Concert. Town Hall, NYC
Jul/Aug - Recital for Juilliard Summer School, date unknown
1936 (age 49)
Feb 14 - Feb 14 recital canceled, sub Alexander Sklarev, Peabody
Mar 13 - Scheduled recital, Peabody
Jul/Aug - Recital for Juilliard Summer School, date unknown
Nov 13 - Recital, Peabody

1937 (age 50)
Aug 1? - Recital for Juilliard Summer School, date unknown

1938 (age 51)
Jan 21 - Recital, Peabody
Mar 12 - guest soloist - ann. Spring concert Havover Civic Orch, H. Evan Swartz, dir; J Herbert Springer accomp. Hanover, MD??
Thu Jul 21 - Juilliard Summer School solo recital - broadcast WNYC - Marilla Kohary accomp
Dec 9 - Recital, Peabody

1939 (age 52)
Apr 10 - Beethoven Assn recital, Town Hall, NYC. Accomp Harry Kaufman. Coolidge Str Qt also on bill - sang Brahms 4 serious songs, and American, Scot, English and Irish folk songs
Thu Jul 27 - One hour recital - Juilliard Summer School Music Festival, Marilla Kohary accomp - WNYC broadcast
Summer - Judge in voice finals, soprano contest, NY World's Fair Flushing, NY

1940 (age 53)
Jan 2 - FG attends Damrosch dinner
Feb 4 - Recital, Peabody
May 14 - AE/FG attend Damrosch Golden Anniversary
Aug 1 - One hour recital Juilliard Summer School Music Festival, Donald Comrie accomp, WNYC broadcast
Jul 31 - One hour recital Juilliard Summer School Music Festival - George Trovillo accomp, WNYC broadcast - [CANCELLED]

1943 (age 56)
Jan-Mar? - Soloist at gathering of the "Bohemians" Jacques Wolf accomp - Harvard Club, NYC
June - Recital, Peabody
Aug 1 - One hour recital Juilliard Summer School Music Festival - 4pm WNYC broadcast
Mar 19 - Song recital, Harvard Club, NYC

1944 (age 57)
Jul 20 - One hour recital Juilliard Summer School Music Festival - 4pm WNYC broadcast - last recital for Juilliard
Aug - FG ends association with Juilliard at end of summer.

1945 (age 58)
Jul 20 - Recital for Juilliard Summer School planned but cancelled
Sep - FG added to the faculty of Dmitriev Studio in Washington DC as head of the voice department

1949 (age 62)
1949 - The Ganges move from NYC to take permanent residence in Baltimore

1952 (age 65)
Oct 26 - Recital, Harold Craxton accomp, Wigmore, London
Mon Dec 1 - Recital, Harold Craxton accomp, Wigmore

1954 (age 67)
Jan - NY Times publishes FG letter on M.P. Garcia's use of laryngoscope, (invented in 1855)
Sept - FG "rejoined Peabody faculty after a year of concertizing throughout England and Scotland"
July 11 - recital - accomp Frank Bibb, Peabody Concert Hall

1955 (age 68)
May 13 - scholarship fund benefit recital, accomp Frank Bibb, Peabody Concert Hall

1956 (age 69)
May 11 - Song recital, accomp Julio Esteban, Peabody Concert Hall
June 17 - Fraser Gange 70th birthday

1957 (age 70)
Apr 28, 1957 - Farewell recital - Peabody - benefit for scholarship fund, accomp Julio Esteban, Peabody Concert Hall

1958 (age 71)
Mar 18, 1958 - Beethoven 9 Albany SO

1960 (age 72)
Spring 1960 - Tribute by Gordon M. Eby, Peabody pub

July 1961 - Informal address to Soc. of English Singers & Speakers, London

June 17, 1962 - Fraser Gange suffers his first stroke on his 76th birthday.
July 1, 1962 - Fraser Gange dies after 3rd stroke, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore

1975 - the 91 year-old Amy Evans sings before Welsh Women's Clubs of America (Baltimore?)
Jan 5, 1983 - death of Amy Evans at her home in Baltimore - age 98.


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