 MISS
ETHEL RADER, who has been one of the leading exponents of the vocal art
at Denison for the past five years, is a musician of distinctive and
interpretative ability. Miss Rader specializes in voice culture,
teaching all branches of vocal music, and achieving splendid results in
her work. She was a member of the Faculty of Kidd-Key College, teaching
there four days out of the week, the other two being devoted to her
private work as a teacher in the city of Denison, where she maintains
an attractive studio at 415 N. Perry Avenue. Miss Rader gives to each
pupil individual attention, leading her efforts to bring out the best
in each, and inspiring them to highest musical endeavor. As a musician
she is highly accomplished and cultured, and her genuine talent wins
the admiration of her hearers. Miss Rader has a splendidly trained
voice, remarkable in compass, and rich and full in volume.
Miss Rader was born at Greenville, daughter of C. W. and Gertrude Rader, who came to this state from Tennessee and Alabama a number of years ago. She was educated in the public schools of Denison, graduating from the high school there. Her love of music has been life long, and entering Saint Xavier's Convent she devoted herself to musical and literary subjects for four years. She then spent three years at Kidd-Key rounding out her education, and specializing in voice. Since beginning her work as a teacher Miss Rader has continued her studies and each summer is spent in the North and East under the best musicians of the country. Miss Rader has done concert work, appearing in public as a solo singer in many of the leading cities of the country. She has appeared with Oscar Seagle, who as a baritone and teacher in known widely, and she was also solo singer in the Brooklyn Episcopal Church in New York. Miss Rader has had the advantage of study under such masters as Charles W. Clark of the Bush Conservatory of Music at Chicago, with whom she spent one season; Richard Hagerman, of the Chicago Musical College, with whom she also worked one season. Herbert Witherspoon, of New York, where she spent a season in study; and with Oscar Seagle, one of the foremost teachers of the country, with whom she has studied three seasons. She spent a year in Europe under Jean De Reszkie, Nice France, concert work in Nice, Monte Carlo, Carmen. She will be connected with the faculty in Syracuse University, New York, next year. Not only a musician by nature, but by the best training the country can offer, Miss Rader is meeting a well deserved success. She is an artist, thoroughly finished and experience. Source: Davis, Ellis Arthur, and Edwin H. Grobe, eds. The Encyclopedia of Texas (Dallas TX: Texas Development Bureau [1921–1922]). Digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21069/ : accessed September 03, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries, Denton, Texas  Miss Ethel Rader of SMU To Head Voice Department Announcement
of the election of Ethel Rader, teacher of voice at Southern Methodist
University, as head of the voice department at Hardin-Simmons
University, was made Saturday by Dr. W. R. White, university president,
and the board of trustees.
Miss Rader is succeeding Mrs. Lola Gibson Deaton, head of the H-SU voice department since 1934, whose resignation was submitted to Dr. White several weeks ago. Miss Rader is an accomplished artist, a successful concertist, and a successful teacher, said Dr. White. Bishop C. C. Selecman, president of SMU during Miss Rader's stay at SMU, writes of his "personal gratification and pride that she consistently met every test as teacher, artist and citizen of the campus," Dr. White said. A member of the fine arts department of Syracuse University, twice head of the Oklahoma Baptist University voice department, a former head of the voice department of the Kidd-Key conservatory at Sherman, where she was graduated with artist diploma, Miss Rader is now completing her ninth year at SMU. She will come here in the fall, to begin her work with the fall semester. Miss Rader has been choir director for the First Methodist, Oak Lawn Methodist and Munger Place Methodist churches in Dallas. She was director of the Viola Munson Green Oratorio society there, presenting the chorus in Mendelssohn's Elijah and Handel's Messiah. At Syracuse, Miss Rader was director of the chorus, and traveled extensively with the chorus and orchestra throughout New York, presenting the Messiah. She has also served two years at North Texas State College. Dean E. Edwin Young of the H-SU school of music, was enthusiastic in comment on Miss Rader. "Her voice is one of the finest, and she is an outstanding teacher," Dean Young said. Miss Rader has studied with some of America's greatest teachers, such as Charles W. Clark, Oscar Seagle, Richard Hageman and Herbert Witherspoon. She studied opera roles under Papi of the Metropolitan. She has studied with Franz Proschowski and Maurice Jacquet of New York, studied oratorio with Arthur Middleton and repertoire and interpretation with Edgar Nelson. Her studies in Europe were with such masters as Jean de Reske, Madame Behr and Princess Kniagevitch, and she appeared in European concerts at Nice, Cannes, Naples and Madrid. Her recitals in America have been given in most principal cities, and include many successes as guest soloist. Source: The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 32, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 30, 1942, Newspaper, May 30, 1942; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth98167/ : accessed September 04, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library , Abilene, Texas Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
