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Kellogg, Clara Louise
Clara Kellogg was the featured performer at the opening of the Athenaeum in Englewood in 1870. Clara Louise Kellogg (1842–1916) was one of the first American-born opera singers to achieve international fame. Born in Sumterville, South Carolina, and raised in New York, she… -
Kreisler, Fritz
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) was one of the most celebrated violinists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Vienna, he was a child prodigy who studied at the Vienna and Paris Conservatories before launching an international career. By the early 1900s he… -
Armstrong, Mary C.
Mary Chontrelle Armstrong (c. 1876–October 3, 1926) was more than a music teacher; she was the central force behind Englewood’s emergence as a serious cultural community in the early twentieth century. As founder and director of the Englewood Conservatory of Music and organizer… -
Flagstad, Kirsten
Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962) was one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era. Born in Hamar, Norway, she trained in Oslo and made her early career in Scandinavian opera before her… -
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
In February 1930, Englewood hosted one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century when Sergei Rachmaninoff performed before a packed audience at St. Cecilia’s Auditorium under the auspices of the Englewood Conservatory of Music. According to The Record, the recital drew… -
Lehmann, Lotte
Charlotte “Lotte” Lehmann was one of the great dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century, celebrated for her interpretations of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Born in Perleberg, Germany, in 1888, she rose from modest beginnings to become a star of… -
Schirra, Walter M. Jr.
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and raised in Bergen County, he graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood in 1940 before entering the U.S. Naval… -
Eckerson, Ione
Ione Scholl Eckerson devoted 46 years to teaching in Englewood’s public schools, becoming one of the community’s most respected educators. A 1917 graduate of Englewood High School and a 1922 graduate of Smith College, she began teaching in the city school system shortly after…