Maine Memory Network

Elise Fellows White: Music, Writing, and Family

From a violin prodigy in her early years to an older woman -- mother of two -- struggling financially, Skowhegan native Mary Elise Fellows White remained committed to music, writing, poetry, her extended family -- and living a life that would matter and be remembered.

Elise Fellows White: World Traveling Violin Prodigy

Elise Fellows White was a violinist from Skowhegan who traveled all over the world to share her music.

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… dance." At age ten, she attended the New England Conservatory in Boston to study the violin. At seventeen, patrons funded her trip to study with…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"At 18, Nordica graduated from the New England Conservatory and began performing in America and Europe."