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Anna Elizabeth Mooney<ref name=”Marriage”>{{cite news|title=Burch-Mooney|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date= December 22, 1886|page= 3}}</ref> was born in either Brooklyn, New York,<ref name=”obituary”>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Anna Mooney Burch|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date= January 25, 1905|page= 2}}</ref> or [[Hyde Park, New York]].<ref name=”TUO”>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Anna M. Burch|work=[[Times Union]]|date= January 25, 1905|page= 2}}</ref> She was the fourth daughter of James and Anna Mooney,<ref name=”TUO”/> and grew up in the Eastern District of Brooklyn.<ref name=”TUO”/> She studied singing in New York City with [[Achille Errani]].<ref name=”MCF”>{{cite news|title=Personals. Anna Mooney-Burch|work=[[The Musical Courier]]|volume=XXI|number=18|date=October 29, 1890|editor-first1=Marc A.|editor-last1=Blumenberg|editor-first2=Otto|editor-last2=Floersheim}}</ref> By January 1885 she was working as a singer at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhatten (then located at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street; now [[Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (New York City)|Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew]]).<ref>{{cite news|title=Local Items|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=January 3, 1885|page= 5}}</ref> She left that post the following April at the time she left the United States for England to pursue studies in music.<ref>{{cite news|title=Personal|work=[[The Buffalo Commercial]]|date= April 13, 1885|page= 3}}</ref> There she was a pupil of [[Achille Rivarde]].<ref name=”MCF”/>

Anna Elizabeth Mooney<ref name=”Marriage”>{{cite news|title=Burch-Mooney|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date= December 22, 1886|page= 3}}</ref> was born in either Brooklyn, New York,<ref name=”obituary”>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Anna Mooney Burch|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date= January 25, 1905|page= 2}}</ref> or [[Hyde Park, New York]].<ref name=”TUO”>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Anna M. Burch|work=[[Times Union]]|date= January 25, 1905|page= 2}}</ref> She was the fourth daughter of James and Anna Mooney,<ref name=”TUO”/> and grew up in the Eastern District of Brooklyn.<ref name=”TUO”/> She studied singing in New York City with [[Achille Errani]].<ref name=”MCF”>{{cite news|title=Personals. Anna Mooney-Burch|work=[[The Musical Courier]]|volume=XXI|number=18|date=October 29, 1890|editor-first1=Marc A.|editor-last1=Blumenberg|editor-first2=Otto|editor-last2=Floersheim}}</ref> By January 1885 she was working as a singer at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhatten (then located at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street; now [[Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (New York City)|Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew]]).<ref>{{cite news|title=Local Items|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=January 3, 1885|page= 5}}</ref> She left that post the following April at the time she left the United States for England to pursue studies in music.<ref>{{cite news|title=Personal|work=[[The Buffalo Commercial]]|date= April 13, 1885|page= 3}}</ref> There she was a pupil of [[Achille Rivarde]].<ref name=”MCF”/>

By October 1886 Anna was back in New York performing with the Amphion Musical Society of Brooklyn with her fellow soloist being the baritone Charles R. Burch<ref>{{cite news|title=First Ladies Night. A Pleasant Feature of the Amphion Musical Society|work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]]|date= October 6, 1886|page= 4}}</ref> who was the son of minister Thomas H. Burch.<ref name=”obituary”/> She had previously performed with Burch in 1884 when the pair performed in a concert together with the organist and composer Smith Newell Penfield (1837-1920) at Christ Church on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news|title=Christ Church Organ Recital|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=January 14, 1884|page= 4}}</ref> She married Charles R. Burch in Brooklyn on December 21, 1886<ref name=”Marriage”/> and thereafter performed under the names Anna Mooney Burch<ref name=”TUO”/> or Anna Burch.

By October 1886 Anna was back in New York performing with the Amphion Musical Society of Brooklyn with her fellow soloist being the baritone Charles R. Burch<ref>{{cite news|title=First Ladies Night. A Pleasant Feature of the Amphion Musical Society|work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]]|date= October 6, 1886|page= 4}}</ref> who was the son of minister Thomas H. Burch.<ref name=”obituary”/> She had previously performed with Burch in 1884 when the pair performed in a concert together with the organist and composer Smith Newell Penfield (1837-1920) at Christ Church on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news|title=Christ Church Organ Recital|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=January 14, 1884|page= 4}}</ref> She married Charles R. Burch in Brooklyn on December 21, 1886<ref name=”Marriage”/> and thereafter performed under the names Anna Mooney Burch<ref name=”TUO”/> or Anna Burch.

In the autumn of 1886 Mooney Burch became a soprano in Charles Mortimer Wiske’s Wiske Concert Company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Y.W.C.T.U. Concert|work=[[The Courier-News]]|date= October 29, 1886|page= 1}}</ref> With this group she performed at the Stillman Music Hall in New Jersey (1886),<ref>{{cite news|title=The Y Concert|work=[[The Courier-News]]|date= November 2, 1886|page= 1}}</ref> Smithsonian Hall in Brooklyn (1886),<ref>{{cite news|title=A Fine Concert|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=December 9, 1886|page= 4}}</ref> and the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] (1890<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_music-magazine-and-musical-courier_1890-12-31_21_567/page/n6/mode/1up?q=%22Anna+Mooney+Burch%22|work=[[Musical Courier]]|date=December 31, 1890|volume=21|number=567|title=Wiske Orchestral Concert}}</ref> and 1891).<ref>{{cite news|title=Wiske Orchestral Concert|work=[[The Musical Courier]]|page=80|date=January 28, 1891}}</ref> Other early concert engagements included performances with the Shubert Society in Manhattan and both the Brooklyn Choral Society and the Cecilia Society of Brooklyn.<ref name=”MCF”/> In 1888 she gave a recital at Puritan Church in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Concert in Puritan Church|work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]]|date= March 2, 1888|page= 3}}</ref>

In the autumn of 1886 Mooney Burch became a soprano in Charles Mortimer Wiske’s Wiske Concert Company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Y.W.C.T.U. Concert|work=[[The Courier-News]]|date= October 29, 1886|page= 1}}</ref> With this group she performed at the Stillman Music Hall in New Jersey (1886),<ref>{{cite news|title=The Y Concert|work=[[The Courier-News]]|date= November 2, 1886|page= 1}}</ref> Smithsonian Hall in Brooklyn (1886),<ref>{{cite news|title=A Fine Concert|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Times]]|date=December 9, 1886|page= 4}}</ref> and the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] (1890<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_music-magazine-and-musical-courier_1890-12-31_21_567/page/n6/mode/1up?q=%22Anna+Mooney+Burch%22|work=[[Musical Courier]]|date=December 31, 1890|volume=21|number=567|title=Wiske Orchestral Concert}}</ref> and 1891).<ref>{{cite news|title=Wiske Orchestral Concert|work=[[The Musical Courier]]|page=80|date=January 28, 1891}}</ref> Other early concert engagements included performances with the Shubert Society in Manhattan and both the Brooklyn Choral Society and the Cecilia Society of Brooklyn.<ref name=”MCF”/> In 1888 she gave a recital at Puritan Church in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Concert in Puritan Church|work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]]|date= March 2, 1888|page= 3}}</ref>

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Anna Mooney Burch

Anna Elizabeth Mooney, also known by her married name Anna Burch or Anna Mooney Burch, (c. 1862 – died 24 January 1905) was a soprano. She was a well known concert singer in oratorios.[1]

Life and career

Anna Elizabeth Mooney[2] was born in either Brooklyn, New York,[1] or Hyde Park, New York.[3] She was the fourth daughter of James and Anna Mooney,[3] and grew up in the Eastern District of Brooklyn.[3] She studied singing in New York City with Achille Errani.[4] By January 1885 she was working as a singer at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhatten (then located at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street; now Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew).[5] She left that post the following April at the time she left the United States for England to pursue studies in music.[6] There she was a pupil of Achille Rivarde.[4]

By October 1886 Anna was back in New York performing with the Amphion Musical Society of Brooklyn with her fellow soloist being the baritone Charles R. Burch[7] who was the son of minister Thomas H. Burch.[1] She had previously performed with Burch in 1884 when the pair performed in a concert together with the organist and composer Smith Newell Penfield (1837-1920) at Christ Church on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[8] She married Charles R. Burch in Brooklyn on December 21, 1886[2] and thereafter performed under the names Anna Mooney Burch[3] or Anna Burch.[9]

In the autumn of 1886 Mooney Burch became a soprano in Charles Mortimer Wiske’s Wiske Concert Company.[10] With this group she performed at the Stillman Music Hall in New Jersey (1886),[11] Smithsonian Hall in Brooklyn (1886),[12] and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1890[13] and 1891).[14] Other early concert engagements included performances with the Shubert Society in Manhattan and both the Brooklyn Choral Society and the Cecilia Society of Brooklyn.[4] In 1888 she gave a recital at Puritan Church in Brooklyn, New York.[15]

In 1890 Mooney Burch performed in two concerts under conductor Theodore Thomas at the Lennox Lyceum [de].[16] An illustration of her was printed on the front cover of the October 29, 1890 edition of The Musical Courier.[4] In December 1890 she was the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Jacob’s Theatre in Newark, New Jersey with the Shubert Vocal Society;[17] a work she later repeated with the Ottawa Philharmonic Society (1892),[18] the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (1893),[19] and the Washington Choral Society with an orchestra led by Walter Damrosch (1893).[20]

In 1891 Mooney Burch toured North America in concerts with English baritone Charles Santley.[21] In April 1891 she sang the title part in Jules Massenet‘s oratorio Ève with the Toronto Philharmonic Society (TPS) and Santley performing the part of Adam.[22] She had previously performed this work at the Lennox Lyceum with Theodore Thomas’s orchestra.[23] She also performed the part of the Widow in Felix Mendelssohn‘s Elijah with the TPS in 1891.[24] She later repeated the part of Eve in performances of the oratorio with the New York Symphony Orchestra (NYSO) in Baltimore and Washington D.C. (1893)[25] and the Montreal Philharmonic Society at Windsor Hall (1893).[26]

In 1892 Mooney Burch was a soloist with the Cleveland Philharmonic (no relation to the present orchestra).[27] In April 1892 she was a soloist in a concerts presented by British tenor Edward Lloyd at Madison Square Garden (MSG).[28][29] She returned to MSG the following December to perform in concert with Orpheus Society led by conductor Arthur Mees.[30] That same month she performed in concerts with the Dutch violinist Johannes Wolff [nl] and Portuguese pianist José Vianna da Motta at Palmer’s Theatre.[31] In 1893 she was the soprano soloist in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust with the NYSO for performances in Baltimore and Washington D.C.[32]

In 1894 Mooney Burch was a soloist with Brooklyn Oratorio Society at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[33]

For ten years she was a resident soprano at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan;[3] resigning from her position in 1898.[34] After this she was a soprano at Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.[3]

Anna Mooney Burch died in New York City on January 24, 1905.[35] She is buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d “Mrs. Anna Mooney Burch”. The Brooklyn Daily Times. January 25, 1905. p. 2.
  2. ^ a b “Burch-Mooney”. The Brooklyn Daily Times. December 22, 1886. p. 3.
  3. ^ a b c d e f “Mrs. Anna M. Burch”. Times Union. January 25, 1905. p. 2.
  4. ^ a b c d Blumenberg, Marc A.; Floersheim, Otto, eds. (October 29, 1890). “Personals. Anna Mooney-Burch”. The Musical Courier. Vol. XXI, no. 18.
  5. ^ “Local Items”. The Brooklyn Daily Times. January 3, 1885. p. 5.
  6. ^ “Personal”. The Buffalo Commercial. April 13, 1885. p. 3.
  7. ^ “First Ladies Night. A Pleasant Feature of the Amphion Musical Society”. Brooklyn Eagle. October 6, 1886. p. 4.
  8. ^ “Christ Church Organ Recital”. The Brooklyn Daily Times. January 14, 1884. p. 4.
  9. ^ “Brooklyn”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 30. March 20, 1895. p. 17.
  10. ^ “Y.W.C.T.U. Concert”. The Courier-News. October 29, 1886. p. 1.
  11. ^ “The Y Concert”. The Courier-News. November 2, 1886. p. 1.
  12. ^ “A Fine Concert”. The Brooklyn Daily Times. December 9, 1886. p. 4.
  13. ^ “Wiske Orchestral Concert”. Musical Courier. Vol. 21, no. 567. December 31, 1890.
  14. ^ “Wiske Orchestral Concert”. The Musical Courier. January 28, 1891. p. 80.
  15. ^ “A Concert in Puritan Church”. Brooklyn Eagle. March 2, 1888. p. 3.
  16. ^ Krehbiel, Henry Edward. Review of the New York Musical Season 1889-1890. Novello, Ewer & Co. pp. 114, 119.
  17. ^ “Newark”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 21, no. 566. December 24, 1890.
  18. ^ “Ottawa Correspondence”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 24, no. 622. January 20, 1892. p. 12.
  19. ^ “Gotham Gossip”. The Musical Courier. Vol. XXVIL, no. 26. December 27, 1983. p. 13.
  20. ^ Wilson, George H., ed. (1893). The Musical Yearbook of the United States, Season of 1892-1893. Vol. X. Clayton F. Summy. p. 139.
  21. ^ “Facts, Rumours, and Remarks”. The Musical Times. 32 (579): 277. May 1, 1891.
  22. ^ Sheppard, Romund R., ed. (July 25, 1891). “Music”. The Toronto Saturday Night. Vol. 4, no. 35. p. 6.
  23. ^ “Eve”. The Musical Courier: 127. February 11, 1891.
  24. ^ “Musical Items”. The Musical Courier. March 25, 1891.
  25. ^ “Musical Items”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 26. March 22, 1893. p. 23.
  26. ^ “The Montreal Philharmonic Society”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 26, no. 683. April 5, 1893. p. 15.
  27. ^ “Mrs. Burch’s Success”. The Musical Courier. March 2, 1892.
  28. ^ “Amusement Notes”. The New York Times. March 6, 1892. p. 4.
  29. ^ “The Lloyd Ballad Concerts”. The Musical Courier. April 27, 1892. p. 8.
  30. ^ “The Orpheus Society”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 25, no. 667. December 14, 1892. p. 13.
  31. ^ “Wolff and Hollman Matinee”. The Musical Courier. Vol. 25. December 28, 1892. p. 16.
  32. ^ “Music Notes”. Chicago Tribune. March 26, 1893. p. 37.
  33. ^ “Brooklyn”. The Musical Courier. December 19, 1894. p. 28.
  34. ^ “The Marble Church Choir”. The New York Times. March 25, 1898. p. 12.
  35. ^ “Died. Burch”. New-York Tribune. January 26, 1905. p. 9.

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