Amanda Aldridge

Black British composer, teacher and opera singer Amanda Aldridge, who used the pseudonym Montague Ring, is being celebrated by Google Doodle.

"Little Brown Messenger," words by F. G. Bowles. London: G. Ricordi & Co., 1912. The Google image for Friday, June 17 features a pairing of Aldridge with a doodle of musical treble clefs on either side. "The Bride," words by P. J. O'Reilly. London: Chappell & Co., 1910. In addition to her compositions, she taught civil rights activist Paul Robeson and one of America's first great opera singers, Marian Anderson. "Blue Days of June," words by F. E. Weatherly. London: Chappell & Co., 1915. "An Assyrian Love Song," words by F. G. Bowles. London: Elkin & Co., 1921.

Aldridge was an Afro-British opera singer and teacher, who composed under the pseudonym Montague Ring.

Its popularity was due to record players not yet being widely available. Her career was curtailed by a throat injury caused by laryngitis, but she was able to make her name as a teacher, piano player and composer. When she grew up Aldridge went on to study voice under Jenny Lind and George Henschel at the Royal College of Music, before pursuing a career as a vocalist at London’s Royal Conservatory of Music.

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Aldridge composed love songs, sambas, and orchestral pieces into her old age, garnering international attention for her fusion of musical styles. Aldridge composed love songs, sambas, and orchestral pieces into her old age, garnering international attention for her fusion of musical styles. At 88, Aldridge appeared for the first time on television on the British show “Music for You,” introducing a new generation to her classic compositions.

Aldridge performed a piano recital at Queens Small Hall, the original home of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, on this day in 1911 when she ...

In addition to her compositions, she taught civil rights activist Paul Robeson and one of America's first great opera singers, Marian Anderson." "Exploring her mixed ethnic heritage through the lens of music, Aldridge combined various rhythmic influences and genres together with poetry from Black American authors to create romantic Parlour music, a popular genre performed in the living rooms of middle-class homes," Google said on its website. Aldridge performed a piano recital at Queens Small Hall, the original home of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, on this day in 1911 when she was 45.

Today, 17 June, Google is honouring British opera singer, teacher and composer Amanda Aldridge (1866 – 1956) on the date of her 1911 concert at London's ...

In the 1860s, composer Charlotte Alington Barnard’s song Claribel became so insanely popular that music critics were coming up with increasingly creative ways to discredit her in their reviews. Eventually, the key to parlour music’s popularity was also the reason for its downfall. The main appeal of these songs was something Hammond calls their “instant humanity”. Aldridge was a prolific composer, publishing about 30 parlour love songs and more music inspired by a range of genres. Aldridge was also an integral part of London’s British-Afraican society, which resulted in a friendship with composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Tragically, three of Amanda’s four siblings died young and by 1921 she was taking care of her sister Luranah full-time as her health declined.

She is celebrated on the anniversary of the day she gave a piano recital at Queens Small Hall, London's principal concert venue before the war, in 1911.

She released over thirty songs and dozens of instrumental tracks under the pseudonym Montague Ring. Aldrige released more than thirty songs, as well as dozens of instrumental tracks, under the pseudonym Montague Ring. Amanda Aldridge was a pianist and composer who worked under the pseudonym Montague Ring.

Amanda Aldridge was a Black British composer, teacher and opera singer. She released love music, dozens of instrumental tracks, sambas and more than 30 songs ...

Per Google, Aldridge focused on exploring her mixed ethnic heritage through the lens of music. What does the Amanda Aldridge Google Doodle look like? All About Google Doodle Amanda Aldridge

Londoner whose own performing career was cut short by laryngitis reinvented herself as prolific author of romantic 'parlour music'

So devoted to Luranah was Amanda that she declined an invitation from WEB Dubois to attend a meeting of the historic second Pan-African Congress in 1921, writing: “My sister is very helpless… One of five children born to the couple, Amanda hoped to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Amanda was born in 1866 in Upper Norwood, London, into a theatrical family.