WHITE, PORTIA
(1917–1968)> CONCERT SINGER
WHITE, PORTIA. Concert singer (24 June 1917 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada; 1968 in Truro [?]). She began piano study with her mother when she was five years old and sang in her father's church choir from the time she was six. She obtained her musical education at the Halifax Conservatory of Music and studied privately with Ernesto Vinci. In 1941 she made her concert debut as a contralto in Toronto, Canada; in October 1944 she made her New York debut at Town Hall. The next year she appeared in…