About Gladys Yelvington
Lived 1891 – 1957 (aged 65). Gladys Yelvington was an American composer.
Gladys E. Yelvington (Parsons) (November 29, 1891 – February 11, 1957) was an American ragtime composer and friend of May Aufderheide and Julia Lee Niebergall. She was born in Elwood, Indiana, to Asa and Alice Yelvington.
She returned to Elwood in 1910, and performed regularly at the Princess Theatre. In 1912 she married Leo G. Parsons (1887–1958), a cigar salesman, in Elwood in 1912. This ended her professional music career. They moved to Gary, Indiana, in 1917, where she died in 1957.
It has been recorded by pianists Max Morath, Virginia Eskin, and Nancy Fierro.
Remy Charlip choreographed his "air mail dance" Garden Lilacs, set to "Piffle Rag". It was performed by Betsy Kagan in San Francisco in 1991.
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American composer (1891-1957)
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Gladys Yelvington was born on 29 November 1891 in Indianapolis.
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Gladys Yelvington died on 11 February 1957 in Gary.
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Gladys Yelvington was a composer.
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