Mary Carr Moore

Born Mary Louise Carr, Mary Carr Moore was a music educator as well as a composer. Though she wrote a great deal of music for the stage, none of her works recieved professional productions during her lifetime. Active in the musical life of California and the Pacific Northwest, Mary Carr Moore was one of America's most prominent early woman composers. A conservative, tonal composer, her operas are in Italianate or Impressionist styles; Moore once left a performance of a more modern piece because she said it made her physically ill.

• Narcissa, or The Cost of Empire, grand opera in four acts
  Libretto by Sara Pratt Carr.
  1912, Seattle, Washington, the composer conducting; also San Francisco, 1925; Los Angeles, 1945
• The Leper
  Libretto by Dudley Burrows.
  composed 1912
• Memories
  Libretto by Charles Eugene Banks.
  1914
• Harmony
  Libretto by Mission High School students.
  1917
• The Flaming Arrow, or The Shaft of Ku' Pish-ta-ya
  Libretto by Sarah Pratt Carr.
  1922
• A Chinese Legend, or The Immortal Lovers, pantomime
  Libretto by F. H. Bruner.
  1922
• David Rizzio, grand opera in two acts
  Libretto by Emmanuel Browne.
  May 26, 1928, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
  (Op. 89)
• Los Rubios
  Libretto by Neeta Marquis.
  1931
• Flutes of Jade Happiness
  Libretto by Laura Sweeney Moore.
  1933
• Légende Provençale
  Libretto by Eleanore Flaig.
  1935

• The Oracle, operetta
  Libretto by the composer.
  1894 (the composer played the lead at the premiere)

Discography

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