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American musician
Belle Yeaton Renfrew
A white woman wearing her hair in an updo, and a light-colored gown with heave ruffles on the short sleeves and chest. She is wearing elbow-length gloves.Belle Yeaton Renfrew, from a 1908 brochure for the Bostonia Orchestra.
BornAugusta Belle Yeaton
December 11, 1872
Chelsea, Massachusetts
DiedNovember 22, 1963
Brookline, Massachusetts
Other namesBelle Renfrew Mahn
Occupation(s)Musician, conductor
Years active1900-1930

Belle Yeaton Renfrew (born December 11, 1872 – November 22, 1963) was an American musician, and conductor of the all-woman Bostonia Orchestra.

Early life

Augusta Belle Yeaton was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles B. Yeaton and Mary Augusta Yeaton. Her father was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War.

Career

Belle Yeaton Renfrew was conductor of the all-woman Bostonia Orchestra, which played in Boston and toured in the United States and Canada between 1904 and 1924. She also played trombone in the Bostonia Brass Quartet, with sisters Grace Mae Morse and Alice Florence Morse on first and second horns, and various women on cornet, including a third Morse sister, Ella. A reviewer in New Jersey in 1911 commented that "the conducting of Belle Yeaton Renfrew was a revelation to many who attended. She was graceful in attitude but at the same time brought out charming effects with the greatest of precision."

Personal life

Belle Yeaton married jeweler William Renfrew in 1892. They lived in Watertown, Massachusetts, and had a son, Howard William Renfrew (1893-1982). By 1929 she was remarried to a fellow musician, violinist Frederick Louis Mahn. She died in 1963, aged 90 years, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

References

  1. "Charles B. Yeaton". American Civil War Research Database. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  2. "Bostonians are Well Received". Asbury Park Press. 1914-06-29. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Woodside Park Has Novel Amusement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1911-07-23. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Musical". Wisconsin State Journal. 1904-12-02. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Concert by the Bostonia Orchestra". Boston City Club Bulletin. 15: 21. November 1, 1920.
  6. Brown, Gerard W. (2004). Chelsea. Arcadia Publishing. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7385-3609-5.
  7. The Sixteenth Annual Boston Automobile Show: Mar. 2 to 9, 1918, Mechanics Building, Boston. 1918. p. 46.
  8. Holman, Gavin (October 2018). "Soft lips on cold metal: female brass soloists of the 19th and early 20th centuries" IBEW Research. page 44.
  9. "Miss Belle Renfrews Women Players". The Topeka Daily Capital. 1906-10-07. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Bostonia Ladies' Orchestra Gave Fine Concert". Norwich Bulletin. 1910-03-30. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Musicale was a Treat". The Morning Call. 1911-01-24. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Women Musicians' Christmas Party". The Boston Globe. 1929-12-21. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Mahn (death notice)". The Boston Globe. 1963-11-24. p. 20. Retrieved 2020-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.

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