Agnes Gardner Eyre

Eyre was a concert pianist; she toured in Europe, Great Britain, and North America, and appeared with violinist Jan Kubelik^[6][7] and sopranos Corinne Rider-Kelsey,^[8] Abby Beecher Longyear^[9] and Ella Russell.^[5] She performed at the 1905 Proms.^[10] "She played with really brilliant success," said a reviewer in Santa Barbara in 1906.^[11]

As Gardner Eyre,^[12] she composed songs, hymns, and works for piano, including "Love Radiant", "Some Day", "Adoration", "God is Ever Near", "Be Thou Our Guide",^[13] "Were I a Pirate of the Sea"^[14] "Drifting",^[12] and "Beyond the Mist".^[15]

Eyre taught piano students at the Institute of Musical Art in New York,^[16] and in California in her later years.^[3] She attended the 1927 convention of the California Music Teachers Association.^[17] In 1931, she was guest soloist at the first concert of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra.^[18] She was a judge for the 1938 National Piano Playing Tournament, sponsored by the National Guild of Piano Teachers.^[19]

During World War I, Eyre served in the National League for Women's Service, with the rank of lieutenant. She organized an auxiliary transportation unit in Scarsdale, New York.^[20] She was a member of the New York Antivivisection Society.^[21]

Eyre married Norwegian-born Fredrik Wexelsen Jahn in 1909, in San Francisco.^[22] They divorced before 1930. Her brother-in-law was economist Gunnar Jahn. She died in 1950, aged 68 years, in Fresno, California.^[1]