Mildred Adair

Mildred Grace Adair (August 5, 1895 – April 30, 1943), later Mildred Grace Adair Stagg, was an American composer, pianist and teacher. Her compositions were mostly for piano solo, although she also wrote vocal and organ works. They were composed primarily as instructional material, while her church music was published for liturgical use.

Life and career Mildred Grace Adair was born on August 5, 1895, in Clayton, Alabama, US. Her parents were John D. Adair (1869–1897) and Carrie Bennett Adair (1873–1926); Adair's father died two years after her birth. Her childhood was spent in Dothan, Alabama, where she attended local high school and later Judson College, a private women's school in Marion, Alabama.

Adair was a composer, pianist and teacher. From 1910 to 1934, she gave music lessons in Dothan, and later worked as the organist for the city's First Baptist Church. She also chaired Dothan's Harmony Club. Around 1934, Adair married Loring G. Stagg (born 1882), a real estate agent from West Virginia; the couple had three children: a son and two daughters. In 1935, the family moved to Orange County, Florida for one year and lived in Miami form 1938 until her death. Adair died on April 30, 1943, in Miami; she was buried in the Dothan City Cemetery.

Adair's compositions mainly include piano works, although she also wrote art songs and church music. Her piano works were primarily instructional compositions for students, while her sacred music was published for liturgical use. In February 1928, an image of her was included in The Etude music magazine alongside a wide variety of other composers for their "Historical Musical Portrait Series". The Theodore Presser Company published both The Etude and numerous works by Adair.

List of compositions + List of compositions by Mildred Adair Title Genre Publisher OCLC A Day's JourneyScore 1926 Piano Willis Music Co. – A Good Girl: Musical Recitation 1922 ? Theodore Presser A Heron in Flight 1940 Piano Theodore Presser A Picture of a Fan 1930 Piano Boston Music Co. A Summer Song 1924 2 pianos Willis Music Co. All on a Summer's Day 1930 Piano Hatch Music Co. Birds of all Feathers 1936 Orchestral Theodore Presser Boys at Play: For Piano. 1928 Piano Boston Music Co. By the Lake 1932 Piano Boston Music Co. Cart-Wheels 1930 Piano Boston Music Co. Cured: Musical RecitationScore 1922 ? Theodore Presser Dance of the Daffodils 1934 Piano Oliver Ditson Fairy Kisses 1934 Piano Oliver Ditson Finger Drills 1929 Piano Boston Music Co. – Five Little Tunes for Little Fingers ? Piano(left hand) ? – From Many Lands 1933 Orchestral Theodore Presser Happy and Gay 1926 ? Willis Music Co. I Feel Like Dancing. 1935 Piano Theodore Presser – In Camp 1931 Piano Boston Music Co. In the Candy Shop: Musical Sketch 1925 Piano Theodore Presser Indian Warriors 1928 Piano Shattinger – Little Songs for Little Singers 1926 Voice Standard Publishing Little Voices Praise Him 1926 Voice Standard Publishing – Melody Pastime 1930 Piano Shattinger – Melody Pastime 1930 Piano Shattinger Piano & Music Co. Mermaids 1927 ? Clayton F. Summy Co. Merry moods: Seven Pianoforte Duets 1925 Piano Warren & Phillips More Songs for Little Singers 1930 Voice Standard Publishing Night Song 1931 Piano Boston Music Co. – On the Trestle: Piano Solo 1928 Piano Boston Music Co. Pine Trees: A Forest Fantasy 1932 Piano Carl Fischer Music Playtime Book for the Pianoforte 1928 Piano Theodore Presser Playing Hopscotch 1938 Piano Theodore Presser Playing Soldier 1925 Piano Theodore Presser Sea Foam (A Pleasing Glissando Recreation 1925 Piano Willis Music Co. Sambo's Defense: Musical Reading 1925 Speech/piano Eldridge Entertainment House Song of the Pines 1925 Piano Theodore Presser Song of the Seed 1964? Voice Standard Publishing – Spanish Moss, a Southern Idyl 1931 Piano Carl Fischer Summer Pleasures: Five Pieces 1925 Piano Theodore Presser – Sunset Hour 1930 Piano Boston Music Co. Take Care of Mother for MeScore 1918 Voice Frances Cater The Acrobat 1933 Piano Boston Music Co. The Alligator: A Zoo-Land Episode 1931 Piano Carl Fischer The Alligator: a Zoo-Land Episode 1931 Piano Carl Fischer Music The Cello: Piano Solo 1929 Piano Boston Music Co. Three Happy Piano Pieces 1934 Piano Oliver Ditson – Two Little Dancers 1934 Piano Theodore Presser Two Silhouettes: Jumping Jack 1927 Piano Willis Music Co. Two Silhouettes: When Evening Shadows FallScore 1927 Piano Willis Music Co Up Hill and Down 1926 Piano Willis Music Vesper Hymn 1925 Piano Theodore Presser When the Sun Hangs Low 1926 Piano Willis Music Co. With a Dance and a Song 1929 ? Boston Music Co. Wooden Soldiers on Parade 1934 Piano Oliver Ditson