Profile Accuracy Theme of the Week: Music

Question

This week's theme: Music.

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a profile that fits this week's theme.
2. Review and improve the accuracy of the profile.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which profile you chose.

Also see: Photo Sharing Theme of the Week: Masculine

Comments

This week I will work on the accuracy of Eddy Arnold, country musician

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I will attempt to post photo here on Eddy Arnold and if I do another as well. Still learning how to add photos to this page.

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Ya know now would be a good time to post the WikiTree playlist on Spotify. Just saying: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26VNy0fwtDvE3Ft4oDKzT1?si=RnXoZREqTu-ESpf74Ys77w

Answer 1

For this week’s challenge, music, I focused on my father’s profile Charles Wesley Stuewe.  He was a chemical engineer by profession, but he was a musician his entire life. 

Near the end of his life, he told one of his hospice nurses that he used to take a bus to a church in downtown Cincinnati (Ohio) when he was 7 years old all by himself to sing in the Sunday morning service.  They would pay him for his service and by the time he had returned home, he would have fifty cents leftover, which was a small fortune in 1938.  His mother Florence B. Stuewe  bought a used 1922 Baldwin studio upright piano (a piano, taller, with a larger sounding board, than an average upright piano) for Charles (as she called him) to take lessons on.  His favorite music teacher in Cincinnati was Miss Evelyn Eberhardt.  My dad played the piano for the musical shows put on each year at Withrow High School, in Cincinnati.  He also played cello in the high school orchestra, sang, and played a pipe organ.

I’ve attached a link of my father riffing at the piano when he was 88 years old.  When I listen to it, I hear the influences of the composers that were my dad’s favorites and that became mine, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and Grofé.  If my father were listening as a younger man, he would hate that there are fumbled notes and repeated themes, but if I can imagine music and play as well when I am 88, I will be very proud.

Chuck Stuewe riffing at 88 (music) 

Comments

Kathy, thank you for this wonderful answer. What a treasure to be able to hear your dad, and to share it with us.

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Hello Kathy, thank you for sharing this with us. Is there something about being an engineer or mathematician that makes you good at music? Alexander Borodin was a composer and a chemist.

As a retired scientist with degrees in chemistry, one of my interests besides music is number theory. While still working, I played many concerts at scientific conferences, as did other scientists and engineers. I even got paid for one without even asking for money.

It must have something to do with timing, or just the way the scientific mind is organized.

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Marion:  I love the Borodin quartets.  One of my good friends is also a retired chemist who took up the cello and became good enough to play with a professional orchestra.  As you said, number theory, and instinctively hearing patterns must play a part.

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Joyce: So glad you enjoyed it.

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Kathy and Marion, Here is an article on the relationship of scientists and musicians.

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Thank you, Joyce, for the article. You are so helpful!

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Second, Marion's comments!

Answer 2

This week I will work on the accuracy of the profile of my husband's great grand uncle Emerson Hill. He was a bugler in the Spanish American War in Company M, 1st Regiment, Texas Infantry, and he was in Cuba during the war.

Answer 3

Carl Arnold Schnarr (1802-1869) was a teacher and, in a secondary capacity, cantor and organist in the Magdeburg area, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia.

This week I will work on his profile to make it more accurate.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schnarr-82

Answer 4

I'll work on my great great aunt, Lotta Waugh. She was an opera singer. 

Answer 5

This week I worked on the profile of Bertha Music and her husband Lindsay Stambough. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Music-37 And https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stambaugh-374

both died far too young. She died of typhoid fever aged 22 and he died of tuberculosis aged 33. They left two small sons.

Answer 6

My grandfather, Joseph Frederick Buch (1873-1958), started the Buch Boys' Band. The Band gave weekly concerts on Main Street (Jennings, Louisiana) for pubic enjoyment.

My father, Herbert Clarke Buch Sr. (1919-2014), played "Taps" at military funerals (graveside).

Answer 7

This weeks I will work on the profile of my husband's great aunt Maud Loake, in the words of one local newspaper she "was easily the most popular star in the neighbourhood, a magnificent voice, a fine presence and great acting talent". My husband remembers her dramatic entrances when she came to visit and also being sent to bed when, as a child, he refused to sit next to her at dinner!

Answer 8

Yes I am in for the Music-Eddy Arnold, possibly a couple more.

Yes I am in for the masculine.

Where do we find a sheet indicating photo for these first 13 weeks, and accuracy for first 13 weeks.? Thank you.

Comments

You may need to post your photo here Photo sharing

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See Eowyn's entry at the top and you will find this link.

If you would like the participation badge or pass a milestone (13 profiles in 13 weeks, 26 in 26, or 52 in 52) please post here.

Answer 9

This week BioCheck found quite a few Music profiles, many of them orphaned. At a quick glance, a couple may be conflated. I did find one that was a duplicate and proposed a merge.

I updated the profile for James Nicholas (Nick) Music

Answer 10

This week I will add more sources and information to the profile of my Grandmother's Aunt Mary A. Sanders. She devoted her life to music and the Girl Scouts. She studied and/or taught music in her home state of Tennessee, Ohio, Paris, and New York City.

She was very much involved with the Girl Scouts Camp Edith Macy in Briarcliff, Westchester, New York. She also compiled various songbooks that were used by Girl Scouts throughout the organization for years after her death in 1949. After her death a fireplace in the main building of the camp was dedicated in her memory. 

One of her songbooks and a picture of Aunt Mary and her friend Doris at Camp Edith Macy.

Comments

Very cool photo Emily!!  Two thumbs up and I always like to see folks in uniforms sometime in their lives.  Wearing a uniform for any group requires some personal effort by the one wearing it!  Sgt. Lee

Answer 11

Music has always played a roll in my family from my grandfather and his records to my father playing in a band. It's hard to pick just ONE person to talk about. So much music. EVERYWHERE!

https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2021/03/52-ancestors-week-13-music.html

Answer 12

I will be working on my husbands great uncle Elmer Kjelstrom, 1869-1968, Kjelstrom-5. He was a musician 1st class in WWI. He worked as a musician and at a music store. I will be learning more about him this week and improving his profile.

Comments

My favorite woodwind or sure!  Maybe because I loved Billy Vaughn when I was in Hi School.  Nice collection of photos!

Answer 13

My 3rd Great Grandfather Johan Philip Gustafsson Laurin (1765 - 1854) was a musician and he wrote this piece: 

Laurin's F-durpolska

Comments

So awesome.  I just loved his composition.

Answer 14

This week I worked on Gilbert Ronstadt, the father of singer Linda Ronstadt. Their whole family was very musical and loved to both create music and listen to music. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ronstadt-2

Answer 15

I aim to improve the accuracy of both my father René Jean Albert Moya (a pianist) and my maternal grandfather (Carlo Pacchiori) a violin professor :-)

Answer 16

My mother's cousin, Paul Auger, Jr. (1926-2005)  graduated from Chicago Musical College with a degree in church music, taught music at the University of Tennessee, was director of the Charlotte Pop Orchestra, was a church organist and choir director. Here's a picture of him. It is labelled "Briggs School, West Street, about 1910. I played the piano at the start and end of each day." Paul Auger is the boy in the back row on the right. And now for the accuracy part of this question. I was so seduced by the picture that I did not notice the obvious inaccuracy. Can you find it?

Comments

Here's the inaccuracy. Paul Auger, Jr. was born in 1926. The person in the picture taken in 1910 is his father, Paul Auger, Sr.

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Immediately: wait, born in 1926, picture in 1910?  I didn't read through your whole post until I got below the picture. Thanks for sharing!

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Kathy, thanks for reading my post and thinking about it. I have a lot more of those "duh, what was I thinking?" things. Did you notice the sad story in last week's "Loss" posts about the man who died in an auto accident in 1866?

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Nice photo Joyce!  Thanks for giving us the answer!  I would never have guessed!

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Yes, Scott, I had that picture for years before I realized it. Thanks for reading!

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I just posted a story about the world's shortest skyscraper and the need for accuracy.

Answer 17

This week, I chose the profile of my mother, Lucille Bird Dawson Ceruti, who was a church organist, piano and organ teacher, expert dancer, and dance instructor. I reviewed the biography and corrected sentence structure, spelling errors, typos, and added more information to the profile. Here is a picture of my parents, Wm. Tracy Ceruti and Lucille Dawson Ceruti, dancing at one of their many dance outings.

Comments

What a lovely couple!  That is one awesome dress.

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Thank you for this photo, Marion. My parents were also both very good dancers, my mother having also been a dance instructor. I wish I had a photo of them dancing, but Alas, no. You are so fortunate to have this. Did you inherit any of your parents' talent?

Answer 18

I thought that Paul Tietjens, b 1877 in St. Louis, MO,  the pianist and composer of the 1902 Chicago musical of The Wizard of Oz in collaboration with L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow, was an ancestor of mine, but now I'm not sure, so I will be working on MY Tietjens line that I know of for sure and also his, to see if there's a match or not. My ancestor is Johanna Friederike Tietjens aka Tietgen, born December 25, 1842 in Germany.  If anyone else is working on this surname - 19th century, Germany - St. Louis MO - Montana, I'd love to collaborate. Thank you. 

Comments

I love your respect for accuracy. You thought (hoped, maybe) that he was a relative because he was famous and shared your name. "Now I am not so sure." We have all probably made that same mistake, but not everyone will admit it.

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Thank you, yes, wishful thinking, and many similarities in names, dates and places. Paul Tietjens' father,  Henry Tietjens, b March 22, 1841 in Hamburg Germany and  d October 10, 1920 in St. Louis, MO. My great great grandmothers' brother, Henry Tietjens, born Jan 4 1854 in Bremen, Germany and died June 29, 1921 in Great Falls Montana. My great grandmother Johanna Tietjens (her maiden name) married a Burrow and lived in St. Louis 1867 to 1882 as did Henry Tietjens, father of Paul.  So many similarities.

Answer 19

I selected Do The Hokey Pokey's songwriter Larry Laprise.

Comments

Joyce goes to the movies, part 2. Cherry 2000. A cult classic. One of my favorite movies. Weirdos doing the hokey pokey,

Answer 20

My Uncle was a famous guitarist and Band Leader.  William Anthony Manzo. wikitree/wiki/Manzo-64