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Audrey Call found her niche playing in studio orchestras, where her technique and sightreading skills made her a valuable player, and she often acted as concertmaster. In 1937 she recorded a suite for violin and piano ("Canterbury Tales") with pianist
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Ray Carter). She appears to have stopped composing specifically for the violin after her marriage, but continued to write popular songs. One work, "I Just
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She also composed in later years—her last piece was a song written for her retirement home in Santa Rosa, California. Unfortunately, nearly all the scores and published music by her and her husband were lost when the shed they were stored in was flooded.
193:(1905–2001) was an American violinist and composer, writing for and soloing with studio orchestras for NBC and CBS in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood. One of very few women composers writing in a jazz style for the violin, she performed on the "
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Audrey Call was born in Alton, Indiana, in 1905, and began playing the violin at an early age. She studied under
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