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Mary McCormic

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686:. McCormic transformed herself from diva to artist-in-residence educator. She founded, defined, directed, and, when necessary, defended the school's first Opera Workshop. She built the Opera Workshop from scratch – on a shoestring budget – molding it over 16 prolific years into what has become her crowning legacy that, for 80 years, has enriched the Southwestern United States. Bain is regarded as one of the great music school deans of all time. In books and memoirs of accomplishments, Bain often tells of the hiring of Mary McCormic as one of his great accomplishments at North Texas. 40: 543: 307: 526:
McCormic's father and two brothers, Odell and Williard, built a grocery store business — J H Harris & Sons and Harris Food Stores and Rolling Stone Stores (as many as 10 stores in Texas located in Borger, Pampa, Dalhart and Amarillo). The business was sold in 1946, shortly before the death
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McCormic was born in Belleville, Arkansas. A onetime obscure Arkansas housewife, McCormic rose to stardom and enjoyed a colorful personal life — four marriages and four divorces (men of no resemblance to one another), almost a fifth, a high-dollar lawsuit defense for assaulting an unauthorized
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Through the opera workshop, McCormic pioneered an approach to opera in an era that wiped out major opera companies on the heels of the Great Depression. The new "low-cost workshop" model also offered new opportunities for composers who otherwise would never have their operas produced. And the
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Emil Frey Myers (1886–1957) gave McCormic's her first voice lessons in Amarillo. He was the conductor the Amarillo Civic Chorus and was a major concert promoter in the Texas Panhandle. Myers, with his wife, Lila, founded the Amarillo School of Music, Inc.
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magazine. The marriage occurred in secret in Kalamazoo. Chester later revealed that the marriage was not valid because it took place while both were married to others. Chester had married Ava in 1908. Mary began using the name McCormic after a
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The North Texas Opera Workshop was the first collegiate touring opera workshops west of the Mississippi and, at the time of its founding, was the only opera production company in existence in the Southwest. The San Antonio Grand Opera,
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The UNT Opera Workshop is an integral part of one of the more comprehensive music schools in the world; a school that, since the 1940s, and in recent years, holds the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the
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workshop model gave hope for opera itself, when many in the world dismissed opera as a bygone luxury of the rich. The new "low cost model" also gave access in regions of the world that otherwise had little hope of having opera.
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female biographer, boom and bust personal wealth, witty humor, and brush with royalty. McCormic captured world intrigue with the panache of the operas she starred, all with the backdrop of being born at the end of the
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McCormic studied music at Ouachita College, University of Arkansas and then, with the intention of becoming a lyric soprano, Northwestern University where she took vocal lessons. McCormic became a protégé of
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During a 1914 Tri-State Fair Music Festival in Amarillo, McCormic became aware of the operatic possibilities of her voice. By way of a Methodist Choir in Chicago and a singing contest sponsored by
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Reba McCormic, aka Alexandra Rebecca (Sandie) Goshie (née Rankin; 16 February 1910 Ola, Arkansas – 23 January 2002 McLean, Virginia). Sandie was married to John Louis Goshie (1908–1974) a
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of the father. The father, Odell, and Williard also operated a 58,000-acre (230 km) ranch in Union County, New Mexico. The father purchased the first portion of the ranch in 1915.
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1883, Saugus, Massachusetts; marriage ended in divorce — Chester, a reputed Chicago mob lawyer, was Mary's "second husband." However, Mary described the marriage as a "sham" in
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Born January 27, 1886, Perryville, Arkansas; died June 8, 1946, Sacramento; Joseph and Mary married around 1908 in Arkansas. During their marriage, they had a daughter:
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Under McCormic, the opera workshop performed locally, toured, and did broadcasts in radio and TV often with near quality of a reputable professional company.
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In 1924, McCormic, early in her career, gained the artist management services of Charles L. Wagner (1869–1956), who also managed world figures that included
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For more than a decade (early 1920s to late 1930s), McCormic was among the famous sopranos in the world. She was most known for her leading roles with the
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states November 12, 1895; the grave marker is consistent with archival records, namely the 1910 US Census, which, places her DOB around 1889-1890
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was founded in 1957, the UNT Opera Workshop and Vocal Studies provided a steady supply of singers for the Dallas Opera Chorus.
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Born in Belleville, Arkansas, and raised in Dardanelle, Arkansas and Ola, Arkansas, McCormic, was known growing up as
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In 1966, McCormic retired and moved to Amarillo to make her home with her widowed sister-in-law, Mrs. Odell Harris.
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of Ola, Arkansas. She, with her family, moved to Portales, New Mexico in 1907, then to Amarillo, Texas in 1909.
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July 24, 1926 — McCormic was signally honored by receiving the title role for a special presentation of
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records show them as being married. Chester died at the age of 64 on April 16, 1956 in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Dec 1958 — McCormic directed the first televised opera in the Southwestern United States on
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Williard Harris (10 February 1892 in Yell County, Arkansas – 24 March 1949 in Amarillo, Texas)
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Mamie Harris (11 November 1889 in Belleville, Arkansas – 10 February 1981 in Amarillo, Texas)
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Odelle Crawford Harris (4 July 1886 in Belleville, Arkansas – 26 May 1950 in Amarillo, Texas)
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Mamie's interest in becoming an opera star began at age nine, and continued while attending
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Married April 27, 1931, Phoenix, Arizona; divorced November 14, 1933, Los Angeles County
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Married November 25, 1936, Kansas City, Missouri; divorced July 14, 1937
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McCormic and Charles Marshall sang the leading roles in the premiere of
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by Laverne Hanners (1921–1998), University of Oklahoma Press (1998);
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In response to Vittorio Trevisan's (1868–1958) letter to the editor,
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Edward Colman Moore (1877-1935) (Moore was a music critic for the
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Mary Elizabeth Harris, Section D lot 6 space 2 (February 6, 1990)
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Mary McCormic and Vittorio Trevisan, from a 1921 publication.
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This article is about the opera singer. For the actress, see
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February 1 and 8, 1922 — New York debut as Musetta in
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American operatic soprano, 1920s; music educator, 1944–1966
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1865 in Tennessee – 31 December 1929 in Amarillo, Texas)
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Officer. Kenneth and Mary divorced in 1916 in Chicago.
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1860 in Forsyth, Georgia – 9 November 1946) and wife,
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1923 — Referred to as "the Cowgirl Soprano" by
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DOB is from her grave marker; the DOD listed in the
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Mary McCormack

Belleville, Arkansas
Amarillo, Texas
Ouachita College
University of Arkansas
Northwestern University
lyric soprano
Prince Serge M'Divani
Paris National Opera
Opéra-Comique
Monte Carlo Opera
Chicago Civic Opera
Kryl Symphony Orchestra
Gilded Age
Roaring Twenties
Prohibition
Jazz Age
Great Crash
Great Depression

Micaela
Carmen
Mary Garden
Chicago Opera Association
La Boheme
Manhattan Opera House
The Snow Bird
Romeo and Juliet
Paris National Opera

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