ALDRIDGE, AMANDA

ALDRIDGE, AMANDA (also known as MONTAGUE RING). Composer (10 March 1866 in Upper Norwood, London; 9 March 1956 in London). She came from a musical family: her father, Ira Aldridge , was an actor and singer, and her sister Irene Luranah became an opera singer. Encouraged by her father, she studied piano as a child. She attended a convent school in Belgium, then the Royal College of Music in London, England. She studied voice with Jenny Lind and George Henschel ...