Amy Allison Grant

Grant was born in Chicago, the daughter of Samuel Veall Grant and Dorcas Emma Hill Grant. She trained as a singer with David Ffrangcon-Davies.^[1] She graduated from the Stanhope Wheatcroft Dramatic School in 1898, and from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1908.^[2] She also studied at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Musical College, and the University of Oxford.^[3]

Grant performed dramatic recitations of poetry with musical accompaniment.^[4] Her signature piece was Tennyson's Enoch Arden, with music by Richard Strauss.^[5] She translated, abridged or otherwise arranged her own adaptations of opera libretti.^[6][7] She gave recitals at her studio on West 55th Street in New York,^[8][9] in private homes,^[10] at the Hartford Golf Club,^[11][12] and at New York's Aeolian Hall^[13] and Plaza Hotel,^[14][15] with programming that followed the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Opera offerings. Her performances were described as preparing her audiences to better enjoy a night at the opera, with an understanding of the story and music.^[8] She also taught voice students,^[16] and performed in Florida during winters in the 1920s.^[17]

In 1909 Grant hosted a benefit concert for the William Lloyd Garrison Equal Rights Association, a women's suffrage organization, at her New York studio.^[18] During World War I, she gave a series of benefits for the American Red Cross.^[15] In 1924, she gave a benefit recital for a new Episcopal church building in Palm Beach, Florida.^[14] She was a member of the Authors League,^[1][3] and associate editor of The Musical Monitor.^[19]