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Louise Stallings (December 31, 1890 – March 2, 1966) was an American soprano singer.
"A Singer Who Made her Debut Recital Pay"
''Musical America'' (June 18, 1921): 19. One of her brothers was college football coach Udell H. Stallings. She attended
''Alton Evening Telegraph'' (March 3, 1966): 8. via Newspapers.com
''Lyceum News'' (March 1919): 264. When Stallings gave a recital at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1921, the ''New York Times'' commented that she was "dark and slender, dowered by nature with a low sweet voice, whose honeyed quality would be cloying but for her varied use of it in modest amounts." She made some recordings, and was a popular singer on radio in the 1920s. "I have a feeling of great responsibility when I sing in a radio studio," she explained, "I feel that I must do extra well for all the millions who listen." In the late 1920s she trained for opera, encouraged by Emma Calvé, and appeared in ''Martha'' with the touring Festival Opera Company in 1929. In 1932, she gave concerts in the Virgin Islands."Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands"
''Annual Report of the Department of the Interior'' (US Government Printing Office 1932): 33.
Louise Stallings (December 31, 1890 – March 2, 1966) was an American soprano singer.
Early life
Louise Belle Stallings was from Alton, Illinois, the daughter of William Henry Stallings and Barbara Alice Warderman Stallings.D. J. T."A Singer Who Made her Debut Recital Pay"
''Musical America'' (June 18, 1921): 19. One of her brothers was college football coach Udell H. Stallings. She attended
Shurtleff College
Shurtleff College was a Baptist liberal arts school in Alton, Illinois until 1957.
History
Founded in 1827 by Reverend John Mason Peck (a Baptist missionary) as Rock Spring Seminary in St. Clair County, Illinois, and relocated to Alton, Illino ...
and studied voice with Lena Doria Devine in New York City."Revelle"''Alton Evening Telegraph'' (March 3, 1966): 8. via Newspapers.com
Career
Louise Stallings toured on the Chautauqua circuit with the Boston Opera Singers Company."Louise Stallings to Head Company"''Lyceum News'' (March 1919): 264. When Stallings gave a recital at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1921, the ''New York Times'' commented that she was "dark and slender, dowered by nature with a low sweet voice, whose honeyed quality would be cloying but for her varied use of it in modest amounts." She made some recordings, and was a popular singer on radio in the 1920s. "I have a feeling of great responsibility when I sing in a radio studio," she explained, "I feel that I must do extra well for all the millions who listen." In the late 1920s she trained for opera, encouraged by Emma Calvé, and appeared in ''Martha'' with the touring Festival Opera Company in 1929. In 1932, she gave concerts in the Virgin Islands.
''Annual Report of the Department of the Interior'' (US Government Printing Office 1932): 33.
Personal life
Stallings mentioned having aSwedenborgian
The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) is any of several historically related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious group, influenced by the writings of scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).
Swedenborgian or ...
religious affiliation. She married Robert D. Morgan in New York City. In widowhood, she moved to St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the ...
. She remarried in 1956, to James E. Revelle. She was widowed again when he died. Louise Stallings Revelle died in 1966, aged 75 years.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stallings, Louise 1890 births 1966 deaths People from Alton, Illinois 20th-century American singers