Post by Penny Richards - ourselves.space

ourselves.space

4d

started a #wikipedia article on California cellist Flori Gough Shorr (1905-1992), first came to prominence as a child prodigy, studied in #Paris career in music lasted at least into the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flori_Gough_Shorr #Cello @wikiwomeninred #WomeninMusic #SanFrancisco #Pittsburgh

Advertisement "Stanislas Bem Presents Flori Gough, The Wonderful Child Cellist; Recital Thursday Evening, November 26, 1917 at 8:15 O'Clock, Hotel St. Francis, Italian Room, Tickets $1.00"

Flori Gough with her cello, from a 1925 publication; a smiling young white woman with dark wavy hair cut in a bob, cello resting on her shoulder

Flori Gough as a child prodigy cellist in 1917; a white twelve-year-old girl with long dark hair, playing a cello

Flori Gough Shorr in the 1930s, a white woman with dark hair cut in a short bob, head of her cello against the side of her face, wearing a dark sleeveless dress with a deep wide neckline

0 0 1 View Post & Replies See Original