Abbie Norton Jamison

Jamison taught piano, voice, music theory, and musicianship in Los Angeles,^[3][4] and wrote music for songs,^[5][6] with titles including "The Rose and the Moth," "Little Pigeon Lullaby",^[7] "Mammy's Lullaby" (1904, words by Maria Howard Weeden),^[8] "The First Blue Bird", "The Rose and the Moth", "Awakening",^[9] "My Prayer" (set to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore), "When Love is Done",^[10] "Thy Little One",^[11] "Fate", "Spirit of the Desert", "Desert Love Song",^[12] "Our Flag",^[13] "Show Me the Way",^[14] and "California is Calling to You".^[15] She was involved with the Federal Music Project, a New Deal program, in Los Angeles.^[16] She hosted informal musical events with fellow composer and clubwoman Bessie Bartlett Frankel,^[17] and directed several women's choruses,^[18] including the La Gitana Chorus in the 1930s and 1940s.^[19][20][21]

Jamison was elected first vice-president of the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1915,^[22] and was president of the California Music Teachers Association from 1918^[23] to 1920.^[24][25] She helped found the California Federation of Music Clubs (CFMC) in 1919,^[26] and was elected president of the CFMC in 1926.^[27][28] In the 1930s she was president of the Southwestern District of the NFMC,^[29] covering Arizona, Nevada, and California.^[30][31] She was a founding member of the Hollywood Bowl Association,^[32][33] founder and president of the Women's Lyric Club,^[15] and served in various leadership roles in the Ebell Club in Los Angeles.^[34][35]

Abbie Norton married judge William H. Jamison in 1892.^[9][36] They divorced in the 1910s. She died in 1955, at the age of 86, at a sanitarium in Los Angeles.^[32][37][38]