page_title: Loraine Wyman
section_title: Performances before 1916
hierarchical_section_title: Loraine Wyman / Life / Performances before 1916
caption_attribution_description: English: Loraine Wyman, American soprano and folksong fieldworker, as portrayed by photographer Paul Burty-Haviland wearing representative performance attire (here, Breton peasant costume), some time in the mid 1910's.
context_page_description: Loraine Wyman was an American soprano, noted for her concert performances of folk songs, some of which she collected herself from traditional singers in field work. Paul J. Stamler has called Wyman "the first real practitioner of the urban folk revival."
context_section_description: Wyman's New York debut was in January 1910. Later that year, she left for Europe, performing with her mentor Yvette Guilbert at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris in November, 1910, and again at Bechstein Hall (now Wigmore Hall) in London in June 1911. In 1912, Wyman performed at the Women's Musical Club in Toronto, where her mother had appeared twelve years earlier. By 1913 she was well enough known to be invited to perform at the White House before President Taft and the assembled members of the Supreme Court. In 1914, she performed in London and Paris, taking the opportunity to research more folk song material in "old monasteries and libraries" there. Later that year, she went to perform in Chicago and Evanston, where she had not been since her childhood; a number of performances were in homes of old family friends. In 1915 Wyman crossed the continent for performances in the Los Angeles area.
caption: Loraine Wyman in performance costume (here:  Breton peasant attire), as portrayed some time in the mid 1910s by her friend[23] the photographer Paul Burty-Haviland
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