Ada Jordan Pray

Adagerta "Ada" G. Jordan Pray (April 9, 1884 – August 25, 1961), B.L., was a composer, teacher and concert singer, the director of the Ada Jordan Pray Music School.

Early life Adagerta "Ada" G. Jordan Pray was born on April 9, 1884, in Livermore, California. Swiss Echo Song, words and music, Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sung by Connie Von Loben Sels, and "Schubertiana": symphony movement in rondo form: to be used with unison chorus if desired. She was a lecturer on Appreciation of Music. For a woman of her time, she travelled extensively abroad. She was vice-president of the California Music Teachers' Association.

She was a member of the Durham Woman's Club and the Butte County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

In 1936 she was appointed to supervise the promotion of musical activities in her district in Butte County, California, where she was assigned the role to make sure all of these musical activities in the district were being directed and developed properly.

Personal life Ada Jordan Pray moved to Oroville, California, in 1916. In 1915 she married Lee Walker Pray (1881–1958). In 1919 she moved to San Francisco and lived in Stanford Road.

Legacy The Ada Jordan Pray Papers are preserved at the Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.