Anne Gannet Stratton Miller Holden (April 17, 1887 - October 1, 1977)
was an American composer who is best remembered today for her song “Boats of Mine,” which was widely performed and recorded during her lifetime. She published her music under the name Anne Stratton.
Stratton was born in
Cleburne, Texas, to Mary Louise Baker and William H. Stratton. She married Robert Gardner Miller in 1909, then married Thomas Steele Holden in 1922. She and Holden had one son.
Stratton studied music at the
University of Texas
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and the Damrosch Conservatory (today the
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most el ...
) with
Howard Brockway
Howard A. Brockway (November 22, 1870 – February 20, 1951) was an American composer.
Brockway was born on November 22, 1870 in Brooklyn, New York. He spent five years in Berlin, studying composition under Otis Bardwell Boise and piano und ...
and Etta Wilson.
She was a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma
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It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States a ...
and the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...
(ASCAP).
In addition to composing, Stratton recorded music for piano rolls. Her songs were published by Harold Flammer (today
Shawnee Press
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/
Hal Leonard
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) and the Boston Music Company.
They included:
*“Ah, Love, How Soon?”
*“Boats of Mine” (text by
Robert Louis Stevenson
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)
*“Dusk Comes Floating By”
*“From Out the Long Ago”
*“Home Time”
*“May Magic”
*“My Goal”
*“November”
*“Parting at Morning” (text by
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...
)
*“Plantation Ditty” (text by
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849–1917) was an American author.
Early life and marriage
She was born Mary Routh McEnery Stuart, child of James and Mary Routh (Stirling) McEnery in Marksville, Louisiana. (She changed the spelling of her name to "Ruth ...
)
*“Sun of My Soul”
*“The Sun at Last”
*“Wash Day”
References
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American women composers
1887 births
1977 deaths
Musicians from Texas
ASCAP
University of Texas alumni