Walter Eugene Page (13 May 1876 – 26 May 1922) was an early 20th-century American 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.[3][4] Members included Page on mandolin; Florence Phelps McCune also on mandolin; Emma McDonald, violincello, and Signor Innocenrio Zito, harp.[4]
Recordingsedit
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.
^University of Iowa Digital Collections, concert announcement for W. Eugene Page and Florence Phelps McCune"Announcement". Retrieved 2014-07-21.
^ abSemi Weekly Iowa State Reporter, Waterloo, Iowa, July 3, 1900, page 5."OF OUR CHAUTAUOUA". 3 July 1900. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
^ abThe Atlanta Constitution, September 23, 1900, Page 8.
^"Victor matrix B-6997. Tipica polka / W. Eugene Page; D. F. Ramseyer". DAHR Discography of American Historical Recordings).
External linksedit
Library of Congress online recordings of W. Eugene Page.
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.
January 01, 1970
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