Eileen Andjelkovitch (18 March 1896 – 15 October 1941), LRAM, born Eileen Constance Smith, was a British violinist, music educator, and musical director.
Eileen Andjelkovitch | |
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 Eileen Andjelkovitch, from a 1927 publication | |
| Born | Eileen Constance Smith 18 March 1896 Ireland |
| Died | 15 October 1941 Worthing, England, U.K. |
| Other names | Aileen Russell Worby, Eileen C. Tcherniak, Eileen C. Cathie |
| Occupation | Violinist |
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Early life and education edit
Eileen Russell Worby was usually described as Scottish,[1][2][3] but Eileen Constance Smith was born in Ireland, the daughter of Frank and Annie Smith; the Smiths lived in Buckinghamshire by 1901.[4] She was adopted by widowed Scottish-born music teacher Anna Alexander Russell Worby, and was living in London by 1911.[5] Successful examination by the Royal Academy of Music granted her a license to teach violin in 1923.[6][7][8]
Career edit
As a young woman, Eileen Russell Worby played violin at theatres,[9] and was musical director at the Broadway Gardens Kinema in Walham Green in London.[10]
Andjelkovitch was a concert violinist.[1] She gave a concert at London's Aeolian Hall in 1927,[11] and accompanied Welsh baritone Owen Bryngwyn at the same venue in another concert that year.[12] She also made several recordings in the 1920s.[13] "She has an exceptionally rich tone and a great deal of temperament," wrote one reviewer in 1925.[14]
She performed on BBC Radio broadcasts in the 1920s[15][16] and 1930s.[17][18][19] On the London stage, she was musical director of the shows Jane and Genius (1934), The Mask and the Face (1934)[20] and Within the Gates (1934).[21] In 1936, she conducted the King's Theatre Orchestra at a benefit concert in Hammersmith.[22]
Andjelkovitch was also known as a music educator. She was principal of the Fulham Central College of Music in 1927,[23] and in 1932 and 1933,[24] she principal of the Modern School of Music on Fulham Road in London.[6]
Personal life edit
Russell married a Yugoslavian diplomat, Vidoslav Andjelkovitch, in July 1921.[25][26][27] She married fellow musician Gregori (Grisha) Tcherniak in 1934.[28] She married a third time, to musician George Ernest Cathie. In 1941 she died at the age of 45, at a nursing home in Worthing.[29]
References edit
- ^ a b "Madame Eileen Andjelkovitch" The Scottish Musical Magazine 8(12)(1 August 1927): 231.
- ^ "Not so Foreign as her Name". South Wales Evening Post. 1927-04-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Foreign News in Brief: A New Violinistic Star". Musical Courier. 96 (24): 44. June 14, 1928 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ 1901 England Census, via Ancestry.
- ^ 1911 England Census, via Ancestry
- ^ a b "Youthful Prodigies; Modern School of Music Students". Westminster and Pimlico News. 1932-05-13. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Music". Musical Times. 65 (19): 194. 1 March 1924 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Royal Academy of Music (1925). List of licentiates. 1919 to 1925 (inclusive). p. 32 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Round the London Theatres". The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly. 20 March 1919. p. 92. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Broadway Gardens Kinema, Walham Green". The Kinematograph Weekly. 18 March 1920. p. 135. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Miss Eileen Andjelkovitch". The Daily Telegraph. 1927-04-27. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Noted Welsh Singer; Mr. Owen Bryngwyn at the Aeolian Hall". Western Mail. 1927-07-05. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Eileen Andjelkovitch". Discogs. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
- ^ "The August Records". The Gramophone. 3 (4): 159. September 1925.
- ^ "Russian Song Recital". The Guardian. 1927-12-29. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Frae a' the Airts". Edinburgh Evening News. 13 August 1928. p. 9. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "The B.B.C. Programmes" The Indian Radio Times 9(12)(June 7, 1935): 807.
- ^ "B.B.C.: A Studio Concert". The Indian Listener. 1 (3): 172. 22 January 1936.
- ^ "Owing to Repeated Misunderstandings". Chelsea News. 1932-02-12. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Royalty: The Mask and the Face". The Stage. 19 April 1934. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wearing, J. P. (2014-05-15). The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 339, 345–346, 353. ISBN 978-0-8108-9304-7.
- ^ "Post Office Orphan Homes". Middlesex County Times. 28 November 1936. p. 24. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Fulham College of Music Concert". Fulham Chronicle. 23 December 1927. p. 6. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Modern School of Music; Fine Concert at Fulham Town Hall". Fulham Chronicle. 20 January 1933. p. 6. Retrieved September 16, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Personal and General". The Near East. 22: 246. August 24, 1922.
- ^ "A Serbian Affair". Westminster Gazette. 30 April 1927. p. 4. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
- ^ "Not a Foreigner". Dundee Courier. 9 May 1927. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The WIkipedia Library.
- ^ Grisha Tcherniak in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005; married in April 1934 to Eileen C. Andjelkovitch; via Ancestry
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 for Eileen C Cathie, via Ancestry
External links edit
- Eileen Andjelkovitch playing a violin solo by Massenet, on a 1927 recording, at Internet Archive