Carol Brice (April 16, 1918 – February 15, 1985) was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1939 to 1943. She attracted considerable attention for her role in a 1939 production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair, where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.[1] Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice. In 1945 she taught briefly at Black Mountain College.[2]
She was the featured contralto on the February 5, 1946 recording of Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo conducted by Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. (Columbia Masterworks MM-633, 3 12" 78 RPM discs. Also LP ML-2006).
Her performances on Broadway included the role of Kakou in the original 1959 cast of Saratoga, the role of Maude in a 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow, the role of Catherine Creek in the original 1971 musical production of The Grass Harp, and the role of Maria in a 1976 revival of Porgy & Bess. Her opera performances included roles in Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga and Marc Blitzstein's Regina.[1]
Brice began teaching at the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1974.[3] She later founded the non-profit Cimarron Circuit Opera Company in Oklahoma with her husband, the baritone Thomas Carey. She supported lynching victim Isaiah Nixon's widow financially after Nixon was killed in 1948.[4] Brice died in Norman, Oklahoma of cancer, survived by her husband, brother, two children and six grandchildren.
^ abNettles, Darryl Glenn (2003). African American Concert Singers Before 1950. McFarland & Co. pp. 22–5. ISBN 9780786414673.
^Fortini, Amanda (2022) Why Are We Still Talking About Black Mountain College? New York Times
^African-American Registry Archived June 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^"Famous Contralto Aids Nixon Fund". The Pittsburgh Courier. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1949-01-29. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
CarolBrice (April 16, 1918 – February 15, 1985) was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute...
cast included Barbara Baxley as Dolly Heart Talbo, CarolBrice as the black maid Catherine Creek, Carol Bruce as Verena Talbo, Elaine Stritch as the evangelist...
during the Jim Crow era. Notable African-American instructors included CarolBrice and Roland Hayes during the 1945 Summer Music Institute; Percy H. Baker...
Leonard Bernstein had its premiere at the center. February 1 and 3, 1946: CarolBrice with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Louis...
Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), John De Main (conductor), Donnie Albert, CarolBrice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy...
(February 5): Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Contralto CarolBrice. Columbia Masterworks MM-633 (3 12" 78 RPM discs); Also Columbia LP ML-2006...
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The star was La Julia Rhea, and other members included Minto Cato, CarolBrice, Robert McFerrin, and Lillian Evanti. During its 21-year run, NNOC also...
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Thomas Z. Shepard (producer); John DeMain (conductor), Donnie Ray Albert, CarolBrice, Clamma Dale Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Houston Grand Opera Orchestra Stanley...
The star was La Julia Rhea, and other members included Minto Cato, CarolBrice, Robert McFerrin, and Lillian Evanti. NNOC mounted productions in Washington...
which raised several thousand dollars and was promoted by opera singer CarolBrice. Nixon's widow attempted to meet with Georgia representative John Stephens...
performances by musicians Nat King Cole, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, CarolBrice, Woody Guthrie, and Billie Holiday. Orson Welles, who had helped to publicize...
Magnolia, Anita Darian as Julie, Robert Rounseville as Gaylord, and CarolBrice as Queenie. He notably sang the song Ol' Man River on The Ed Sullivan...
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Society American Missionary Association Larry Bagneris Jr. Richmond Barthé CarolBrice Anne Wiggins Brown Elizabeth Catlett Countee Cullen Thomas Dent Free...
Robert Mosley, Thomas Carey, Ralph Wilcox, Robert Monroe, James Randolph, CarolBrice, Ruby Jones Mack & Mabel (Jerry Herman) Robert Preston, Bernadette Peters...
(1974), and Funny Lady (1975). Stark married Fanny Brice's and Nicky Arnstein's daughter Frances Brice in 1940. In telling Fanny's story, Stark would produce...
entertainers, including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Ruth...
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