W. Eugene Page
W. Eugene Page, 1908 from a Chautauqua brochure.
W. Eugene Page was a early 20th-Century performing artist who made records with Victor.[1] He was considered a virtuoso on the mandolin, and played marimbaphone, banjo and mandola as well.[2][3]
He toured with his performing company, The Eugene Page concert company as part of the Chautauqua movement.[4][3] Members included Page on mandolin; Florence Phelps McCune also on mandolin; Emma McDonald, violincello, and Signor Innocenrio Zito, harp.[4]
Recordings
1897 advertisement by Lyon and Healy in The Church magazine. The advertisement mentions prominent mandolin players of the time: Salvatore Tomaso (Tomaso's Mandolin Orchestra, Chicago), Arling Shaeffer (author of Elite Mandolin Instructor published Chicago by Lyon and Healy Jan. 1, 1891), Arthur Wells (on Chautauqua circuit), Best, H. P. Sutorius (Minneapolis), W. L. Hazen (Hazen's Mandolin Orchestra, Chicago), Bouton, Turney, and Page as helping Lyon and Healy to improve their 1897 Washburn mandolin.
Page made 5 commercial recordings with Victor Records[1]
- La della (W. Eugene Page mandolin ; D. F. Ramseyer harp guitar)
- Mobile prance (W. Eugene Page mandolin ; D. F. Ramseyer harp guitar)
- Tipica polka (W. Eugene Page mandolin ; D. F. Ramseyer harp guitar)
- Mobile prance (Roy Butin harp guitar ; W. Eugene Page mandolin)
- Polka scherzo (Roy Butin harp guitar ; W. Eugene Page mandolin
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Victor Records. "W. Eugene Page (instrumentalist : mandolin)!". Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ University of Iowa Digital Collections, concert announcement for W. Eugene Page and Florence Phelps McCune"Announcement". Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter, Waterloo, Iowa, July 3, 1900, page 5."OF OUR CHAUTAUOUA". Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Atlanta Constitution, September 23, 1900, Page 8.
External links
- Library of Congress online recordings of W. Eugene Page.
- Advertisement for William C. Sherman, that said he was a pupil of Page and called Page a virtuoso.
- Short bio of Page with 2 announcement flyers.
- Flyer for other members of the Chautauqua movement that Page was part of. Arthur Wells and Clay Smith, both multi-instrumentalists that played mandolin.