Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (September 24, 1875 - January 4, 1958)[1] was an American pianist and composer,[2][3] whose operettas were performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York.
Cale was born in St. Louis to a musical family. Her parents were Rosalie T. Balmer (“Sally”) and Thaddeus Smith.[1] Her mother (1849-1934) composed several pieces for violin.[4] Her maternal grandfather was Charles Balmer of Balmer & Weber Music Company in St. Louis. Her paternal grandfather, the actor[5] Sol Smith, owned and operated the St. Louis Theatre.[6] She married the violinist[7] Charles Allen Cale in 1897.[8]
Cale studied music first with her mother and grandparents, then with Abraham I. Epstein and Ernest R. Kroeger. She taught in St. Louis for over 30 years.[9] Her papers are archived at the Missouri Historical Society.[10]
Cale’s music was published by Balmer & Weber. Her compositions include:
Dance edit
- Masque of Pandora (based on poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)[11]
Operetta edit
- Four Pecks or A Bushel of Fun (performed in New York as Cupid’s Halloween)[12]
- Love, Powder and Patches (text by Alice E. Hellmers)[13]
- Summer: A Flirtation (text by William C. Unger)[14]
Piano edit
- Idyl [15]
Vocal edit
- “Master and Pupil” (text by William C. Unger)[14]
References edit
- ^ a b "Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (1875-1958) - Find a..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
- ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
- ^ Sampson, Francis Asbury; Shoemaker, Floyd Calvin (1923). Missouri Historical Review. State Historical Society of Missouri.
- ^ "Adelina Patti the opera diva". Lafayette Square Archives. 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ Wells, Katherine Gladney (1980). Symphony and Song: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra : the First Hundred Years, 1880-1980. Countryman Press. ISBN 978-0-914378-62-4.
- ^ Leonard, John W. (1906). The Book of St. Louisans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of St. Louis and Vicinity. St. Louis republic.
- ^ Krohn, Ernst Christopher (1924). A Century of Missouri Music. Privately printed.
- ^ Cale, Rosalie Balmer Smith. "SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WOMEN'S CLUBS IN ST. LOUIS, 1890-1920" (PDF). mostateparks.com. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Sheet Music Collection". www.slpl.org. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ Borroff, Edith (1992). American operas : a checklist. J. Bunker Clark. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press. ISBN 0-89990-063-1. OCLC 26809841.
- ^ Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1898.
- ^ a b Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1912). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the (1904-02-04). "The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, February 04, 1904, Image 9". The St. Louis Republic. p. 9. ISSN 2157-1368. Retrieved 2022-02-11.