Kathleen Hart Bibb

Kathleen Hart Bibb started singing professionally in Minneapolis.^[2] She first sang in Chicago in 1917, in a recital at the Ziegfeld Theater.^[3] She gave her first New York concert at the Aeolian Hall in 1918.^[4] She frequently performed with her brother-in-law, pianist and composer Frank Bibb, providing accompaniment.^[5] For three seasons in the 1920s she toured the United States as a member of the Henshaw Mozart Operatic Company.^[6]

She sang for the South Dakota State Suffrage Association in 1917.^[7] During World War I Kathleen Hart Bibb performed at benefits for the troops,^[8] and for the American Red Cross.^[9] She also taught voice in Minneapolis^[10] at the MacPhail Center for Music,^[11][12] and at Monticello Seminary in Illinois during the 1920s.^[13] Late in life she taught voice at the University of Utah.^[14]

Kathleen Hart married twice. She first married lawyer and violinist Eugene Sharp Bibb in 1913; Eugene Bibb spent much of their marriage in the military during World War I, and was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Croix de Guerre, and other honors. Their first son died at birth in 1920; their second son, Eugene, was born in 1922. Her second husband was flutist Frohman Murphy Foster; they married in 1927, in Los Angeles, California.^[15] Kathleen Hart Foster died in 1957, aged 67 years, in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[16]