Английская Википедия:Cora Folsom Salisbury
Cora May Folsom Salisbury Aulmann (February 12, 1868 — April 16, 1916), sometimes billed as C. Folsom Salisbury, was an American musician and composer of piano music, including works in the ragtime genre. She was also the first vaudeville partner of violinist Benjamin Kubelsky, later known as comedian Jack Benny.
Early life
Cora May Folsom was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the only child of James Harrison Folsom and Eliza Ann Knofsker Folsom. Her father and his brother ran a sawmill. In widowhood, her mother ran a boarding house. Cora studied piano as a girl.[1]
Career
After her first marriage ended, Cora Folsom Salisbury helped her mother run boarding houses, tried her hand at sales, and returned to music, earning a living as an accompanist and stage pianist. Around 1907 she started a vaudeville act as a "pianologist" ("pianologue" was her own invented word for piano performance with interspersed comedic observations),[2] and began touring the American midwest and publishing her original compositions.[3] Works published under the name "C. Folsom Salisbury" included Paula (1906, a valse caprice for piano solo, dedicated to Paula Edwardes), Poodles Parade (1907, a march and two-step), My Light Guitar (1908), Lemons and Limes (1909, a ragtime piece), Arbutus Blossoms (1910),[4] Ghost Dance (1911), and Love's Embrace.[1]
She was the house pianist at a theatre in Waukegan, Illinois, when she was not touring. There, in 1909, she met a young violinist who was in the theatre's orchestra. Benny Kubelsky eventually partnered with Cora Folsom Salisbury on tour,[5] as they both had a knack for mixing music and humor. As "Salisbury and Benny"[6] they presented both classical and popular music, along with some of Salisbury's original compositions.[7] The act succeeded enough to play the Palace Theatre in New York City, and launched the show business career of Jack Benny.[8]
Personal life
Cora Folsom married Charles P. Salisbury, a newspaper editor and theatrical manager, in 1888. They divorced in 1903.[9] Cora left performing and touring to care for her mother in 1914. She married again, to a naval officer, George L. Aulmann.[10] Cora's mother died in 1915, and Cora died the next year, aged 48 years. Her remains were buried near her mother's in Oshkosh.[1]
References
External links
- Шаблон:Find a Grave
- Sheet music for Salisbury's "Ghost Dance" (1911), downloadable from Historic Sheet Music Collection, Greer Music Library, Connecticut College.
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Bill Edwards, "Cora May Folsom Salisbury Aulman" Ragpiano.com.
- ↑ "Good Bill at Bijou" News-Palladium (October 23, 1907): 2. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
- ↑ "Will Make Tour of State" Green Bay Press-Gazette (February 28, 1908): 9. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
- ↑ Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions (1910): 736.
- ↑ "Jack (the Boy) Benny" Racine Journal (October 28, 1956): 81. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
- ↑ "Benny's First Trunk" Esther Daily News (May 15, 1974): 6. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
- ↑ "Jack Benny" in Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, eds., Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America (Psychology Press 2007): 88. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ "Jack Benny" in Christopher H. Sterling ed., Encyclopedia of Radio (Routledge 2004): 250. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ "Chicago Theatrical Man is Sued for Divorce" Inter Ocean (May 15, 1903): 1. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
- ↑ "Mrs. Cora Salisbury Weds" Oshkosh Northwestern (October 14, 1914): 3. via Newspapers.comШаблон:Open access
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