Carolyn Beebe

Carolyn Harding Beebe (September 30, 1873 – September 24, 1950) was an American pianist born in Westfield, New Jersey. Her formal training first began when she was twelve with her aunt, Charlotte Beebe. Eventually, she began her studies under Joseph Mosenthal. She later moved abroad to Europe in 1903 to study under Moritz Moszkowski, and though she had been performing for years prior, she had her formal debut in 1903. When she moved back to the United States she began her career as a teacher for The Institute of Musical Art, which would be later known has The Juilliard School. She founded the New York Chamber Music Society in 1915, and the society had their last performance in 1937. She received a medal from the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1945 to recognize her and the New York Chamber Music Society.

Career It was during her time in Europe where Carolyn Beebe performed with the Baudler String Quartet in Hamburg, along with many other instances of accompanying other quartets. Beebe made her debut as a solo pianist in Berlin, 1903. Not only did she perform, but also toured in Berlin, Paris, and Hamburg as a young woman, and had a busy schedule of appearances in the United States and Canada. She recruited members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, with the goal of the group being to perform unique and unheard works. and in 1922. The Society gave first performances of dozens of new compositions, featuring works by Deems Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Henry Holden Huss, and Ethel Leginska.

Carolyn Beebe was also a member of SPAM (Society for the Publication of American Music), a society that would publish work for underground composers.

May of 1926 is when Beebe went back to Europe once again to look for more music.

Personal life Carolyn Beebe married a medical doctor, a dermatologist named Henry Howard Whitehouse, in 1932. Whitehouse died in 1938. Carolyn Beebe Whitehouse died in 1950, aged 76 years, in Mystic, Connecticut.