Clara Pasvolsky

Clara Pasvolsky was born in Jewish family in Pavlograd, Russian Empire.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wew6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Clara+Pasvolsky&pg=RA23-PA46 "Pasvolsky Career, Plans and Notices"] Musical Courier (December 6, 1917): 46-47. Her family moved to the United States in 1905. Her brother, Leo Pasvolsky, became a journalist and an economist, and later an important figure in the formation of the United Nations.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wew6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Clara+Pasvolsky+brother&pg=RA21-PA31 "Clara Pasvolsky, Contralto"] Musical Courier (November 22, 1917): 31.[http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2008/ms008035.pdf Leo Pasvolsky Papers], Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Another brother, Valentine Pasvolsky, was a recognized expert on numismatics.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19068623/valentine_pasvolsky_1980/ "Valentine Pasvolsky, Ex-Engineer, Nationally Recognized Numismatist"] Asbury Park Press (July 3, 1980): 25. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}

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As a young woman, from about 1909 to 1913, Pasvolsky directed the play room at the University Settlement house in New York.University Settlement House of New York, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l5g6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Clara+Pasvolsky&pg=RA2-PA7 Report for 1910] (1911): 5. She had her first New York recital in 1917.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19066671/clara_pasvolsky_1917/ Untitled music news item], The Sun (March 25, 1917): 31. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} Soon after, she was part of a benefit concert and show for Russian refugee and war relief.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19067955/clara_pasvolsky_1917/ Advertisement], Evening World (April 11, 1917): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} Pasvolsky gave a concert of Russian songs at the Aeolian Hall in New York in 1918.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/19/102678024.pdf "Clara Pasvolsky in Russian Songs"] New York Times (March 19, 1918): 9. That same year, she performed with her mentor, baritone Alexis Rienzi, in a program of all Russian songs.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bkc0AQAAMAAJ&dq=Clara+Pasvolsky&pg=RA2-PA47 "Alexis Rienzi in Recital"] Musical America (November 23, 1918): 47. In 1920 she performed in Santa Ana, California,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19066079/clara_pasvolsky_1920/ "Music Association Program Delightful"] Santa Ana Register (December 1, 1920): 5. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} and joined William Butler Yeats, Ariadna Roumanova, Olga Steeb, and other artists and musicians in Los Angeles,[https://books.google.com/books?id=gNtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Otie+Chew&pg=RA19-PA36 "Beckers in Los Angeles"] Musical America (April 10, 1920): 36. to celebrate the birthday of King Albert of Belgium.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19200402.2.299 "To Celebrate King Albert's Birthday"] Los Angeles Herald (April 2, 1920): A-8. via California Digital Newspaper Collection{{open access}} She wore a Russian dress on stage, and presented works by both well-known and lesser-known Russian composers.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19066839/clara_pasvolsky_1918/ "Sings Russian Songs"] New York Herald (March 19, 1918): 7. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} "Miss Pasvolsky is of the type which we immediately connect with our experience of the Russian 'temperament' at its most musical," noted the Los Angeles Times in 1920.Jeanne Redman, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19067022/clara_pasvolsky_1920/ "Slavic Artists Visitors Here"] Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1920): 31. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}

She made a recording in 1919 for the Victor Talking Machine Company.Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. [http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/17150/Pasvolsky_Clara_vocalist_soprano_vocal "Clara Pasvolsky (vocalist : soprano vocal)"], accessed April 8, 2018.

She changed her name from Clara to Carla by 1942, and used the married name Sattler.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19072668/carla_pasvolskaya_sattler_1942/ "Ex-Czar General to Speak on Soviet War Next Tuesday"] Long Beach Independent (November 22, 1942): 22. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} She lived in Long Beach, California and remained active and interested in the arts. Carla Sattler loaned an "antique Russian samovar" to the Musical Arts Club in Long Beach in 1948,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19072307/clara_paslovsky_sattler_1948/ "Musical Arts Club Opens"] Long Beach Independent (October 21, 1948): 17. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} and joined a Long Beach committee to bring the Metropolitan Opera Company to Los Angeles in 1949.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19072485/clara_paslovsky_sattler_1949/ "Committee at Beach City Will Support Visit of 'Met' Opera"] Los Angeles Times (April 10, 1949): 85. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}

Clara Pasvolsky married August Sattler, a chemist, 31 August 1927 in New York. Carla Sattler was listed as a survivor in her brother Leo Pasvolsky's 1953 obituary."Dr. Leo Pasvolsky of U. N. Fame Dead" New York Times (May 7, 1953): 31. via ProQuest. August died 9 April 1940.

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