Mildred Weston

Mildred Weston

Mildred Weston Rogers (May 1892 - February 6, 1975) was an American composer and writer best known for a number of children's pedagogical piano suites and her music criticism for New Yorker magazine.

Not to be confused with American poet Mildred Weston (1905-1998)

Biography

Weston was born in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, to William and Anna Weston. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in Pittsburgh in 1913, studying under T. Carl Whitmer. She pursued further studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.

After college, Weston taught music to kindergarteners at Miss Simonson's School in Pittsburgh. This experience informed the composition of a number of programmatic and pedagogical suites for piano, many of which were published by the Arthur P. Schmidt company (now Summy Birchard).

Weston married William G. Rogers, an author and newspaper editor, on Oct 5, 1934 in Springfield.

Selected works

Her works include:

Piano

Prose

Vocal

References

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  2. ↑ Jeffery, Ruth; Kim, Carrie E.; Coburn, Elvira Estep; Paul, Josephine B., eds. (June 1920). Pennsylvania College for Women Alumnae Recorder. Pennsylvania College for Women. p. 50.
  3. 1 2 3 Kempf, Paul, ed. (February 1925). "Worth-While American Composers (No. 15 in a Series of Biographical Sketches) - Mildred Weston". The Musician. Vol. XXX, no. 2. 34.
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  8. 1 2 The Etude Music Magazine. T. Presser Company. 1922.
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  10. ↑ "Slumber song : Pyrenees folk tune : for piano | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
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  13. ↑ New England Conservatory of Music (1929). New England Conservatory of Music concert programs. New England Conservatory Library. New England Conservatory of Music. p. 280.
  14. ↑ "7 Mar 1926, Page 65 - Pittsburgh Daily Post at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  15. ↑ Earhart, Will (1928). "Review of The Witmark Classic Chorales". Music Supervisors' Journal. 15 (2): 93–94. doi:10.2307/3382545. ISSN 1559-2472. JSTOR 3382545. S2CID 145794177.
  16. ↑ Lockhart, Lee M. (1931). "Review of The Moore Band Course". Music Supervisors' Journal. 17 (3): 72. doi:10.2307/3383521. ISSN 1559-2472. JSTOR 3383521. S2CID 221046398.
  17. ↑ Rogers, William Garland; Weston, Mildred (1960). Carnival Crossroads: The Story of Times Square. Doubleday.
  18. ↑ The New Yorker. F-R Publishing Corporation. 1945.
  19. ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1971). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  20. ↑ Orchestra, Boston Symphony (1941). Programme. The Orchestra.