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Amy Upham Thomson McKean

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Amy Thomson attended high school in Boston where she studied with Felix Fox at the Fox-Buonamici School of Pianoforte at 403 Marlborough Street. She began to write compositions, and studied with Bainbridge Christ and went on to publish songs and short works for violin and piano under both the names
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in Scotland as a young man. Her mother was Anna J. Thomson and she had one brother Robert Stanley Thomson. She married Alexander Mathew McKean Sept. 17, 1917 at Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, and had a daughter, Elaine (May 4, 1924) and son, Robert Alexander (September 25, 1918).
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Amy Upham Thomson and Amy Thomson-McKean. Thomson-McKean appeared on concert and recital programs in
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Her papers are archived by her great-niece, artist Jamieson Thomas of Wilmington, DE.
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in the 1910s - 1930s. She broadcast on Margaret Speaks on WOR NY in the 1920s.
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Brooklyn Standard Union, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1928, Page 8]
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Glasgow
Brooklyn
"Thomson Obit"
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York
The Song World
The Music News
Brooklyn Life
"Brooklyn Musicians Give Works of Amy Thomson McKean"
Brooklyn Standard Union, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1928, Page 8]
Brooklyn Times Union, April 30, 1932, p. 27
Photo from archived works
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1893 births
20th-century classical composers
American women classical composers
American classical composers
Musicians from Boston
Musicians from Brooklyn
Musicians from Providence, Rhode Island
1972 deaths
20th-century women composers
American pianists
American women pianists

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