Sarame Raynolds
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Sarame Raynolds (August 2, 1885[1] – July 31, 1961) was an American singer on the opera and concert stage in the 1910s.
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| Born | August 2, 1885 Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Died | July 31, 1961 (age 75) New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Sara May Raynolds, Sara Mae Raynolds, Sara Rainoldi, Sarame Drake |
| Occupations | Opera singer, concert singer |
| Relatives | Herbert F. Raynolds (brother) Dudley Dean (brother-in-law) |
Early life and education
Raynolds was from Las Vegas, New Mexico, the daughter of Joshua Saxton Raynolds[2] and Sarah Anne (Sallie) Robbins Raynolds. Her father was a bank president in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas,[3] and her brother Herbert F. Raynolds was a judge.[4][5] Her sister Kate married military officer Dudley Dean.[6] She attended Miss Severn's School in Boston,[7] and the New England Conservatory of Music from 1902 to 1906, and pursued further musical training in Europe, with Jean de Reszke and others.[4][8]
Career
Raynolds sang professionally in Italy[9] before making her American debut in Los Angeles in 1915, in Aida and I Lombardi alla prima crociata, with the Los Angeles National Grand Opera Company.[4] Her voice "rang with a brilliance and opulence of tone that completely filled the auditorium", according to the Musical Courier account of her debut.[10] Also in 1915, she toured with a quartet in the American Southwest,[11][12] gave a recital at the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego, and drove from Texas to New York with her mother, sister, and cousin.[13]
Raynolds sang with the Chicago Grand Opera Company in the 1916–1917 season, and was an assisting artist at the Chicago Musical College.[14] She toured the United States in the leading role of Tosca with the Boston National Grand Opera Company in 1917.[15] In 1918 she was a soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra,[16] and returned to Europe with the YMCA, to entertain American troops in World War I.[1] Ella Holloway Lewis was her manager in the 1910s.[17]
Personal life
Raynolds had a home in Florida in 1919.[18] She married bookseller and World War I veteran Marston Elliott Drake in 1923.[7] They lived in Plandome, New York,[6] and had a son, Raynolds Drake, and a daughter, Sarame R. (Sally) Drake. Raynolds died in 1961, at the age of 75. There is a collection of her papers at the New England Conservatory of Music.[8]