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Jessie M. Soga

Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM (21 Ọgọstụ 1870 na 23 Febụwarị 1954) bụ onye na-agụ egwu Xhosa / Scottish contralto, onye nkuzi egwu na onye suffragist.[1][2][3][4] A kọwara ya dị ka naanị onye ojii na-eme mkpọsa maka ikike nhọpụta nke dị na Scotland.[5] Soga bụ onye isi otu Women's Freedom League na Glasgow ma mesịa sonye na Women's Social and Political Union; mana ọ naghị arụ ọrụ agha, na-eji nkà nhazi ya na nkà egwu ya iji nweta ego.

Jessie Margaret Soga

LRAM
Born21 August 1870
Transkei Cape, South Africa
Died23 February 1954
Rottenrow, Glasgow, Scotland
EducationDollar Academy , Royal Academy of Music, London
OccupationContralto singer and music teacher
OrganizationWomen's Freedom League Women's Social and Political Union
Known forclassical singer and suffrage campaign organiser
Parent(s)Father Reverend Tiyo Soga Mother Janet Burnside female Christian missionary
Relativesone of 8 siblings: 5 brothers (one died at birth) and 3 sisters including Jotello Festiri Soga South African veterinary specialist

Ezinụlọ na ndụ nwata

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Jessie Soga bụ nwa nwanyị nke Reverend Tiyo Soga (1831-1871), onye ụkọchukwu ojii South Africa mbụ a họpụtara, onye ghọrọ onye ozi ala ọzọ na onye nsụgharị.[6] A mụrụ ya na Tutura (Somerville) na Transkei, Cape, South Africa, otu afọ tupu ọnwụ nna ya na 1871.[7] Nne ya bụ onye ozi ala ọzọ Scotland bụ Janet Burnside (1827-1903), onye zutere nna ya mgbe ọ nọ na Scotland mgbe ọ na-amụ nkà mmụta okpukpe na Glasgow.[1] Nne ya na ụmụnne ya laghachiri Scotland mgbe ọ nwụrụ, Jessie na ụmụ ndị ọzọ niile gara ụlọ akwụkwọ na Dollar Academy.[8]

 
Dollar Academy - Ụlọ Playfair

Ọ gara ma kwụọ ụgwọ site na 1879 ruo 1882.[9] N'afọ 1882, a jara Jessie mma na klas ịkwa akwa ya, afọ iri ka e mesịrị, ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na 1892 na Edinburgh School of Art ma nye ya ohere nke abụọ maka Plant Drawing in Outline.[10][11] A jara ya mma nke ukwuu na asọmpi Girls Own Paper na 1897, ọ bụ ezie na ọ na-akụzi ịbụ abụ, ma na-eme ihe n'oge ahụ, dịka ọmụmaatụ dị ka onye na-agụ egwú na Kelvingrove United Presbyterian Choir's "very creditable performance" nke The Wreck of the Hesperus, na dị ka onye-agụ egwuregwu na Coatbridge Corporation Recitals.[12][13][14]

Ụmụnne Soga, ma e wezụga Jessie, laghachiri ibi na South Africa: William Anderson Soga (1858ī 1948) onye ghọrọ dọkịta na onye ozi ala ọzọ; John Henderson Soga (1860ī 1941), onye ghọkwara onye ozi ala ala ọzọ; Allan Kirkland Soga (1861ī 1938), onye mbụ na-akwalite na African National Congress; ụmụnne ya nwanyị, Isabella Macfarlane Soga (18641884) na Frances Maria Anne Soga (1868ī1942) rụkwara ọrụ na ozi ala ọzọ Ndị Kraịst, na Jotello Soga (1865 Syga (1860), onye mbụ dọkịta ojii South Africa.[15][16][17][17][18] Jessie na nne ya nọrọ ma ha na enyi ha gara ezumike na St. Andrews n'August 1901.[9]

Agụmakwụkwọ egwu na ọrụ

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A kọwara Soga dị ka "contralto ọhụrụ" mgbe ya na ndị ọzọ na-egwu egwu na egwu egwu nke Glasgow City Hall na 16 Nọvemba 1895, ọ na-enyekwa agụmakwụkwọ egwu onwe onye.[19][20]

Soga gụsịrị akwụkwọ ọkachamara ya na Singing na egwu na 1894 na 1895, n'okpuru Richard Cummings, Llewela Davies na George E. Mott na Royal Academy of Music, London, mgbe ọ bi na 8 South Crescent, Bedford Square.[9] Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ mbụ dị ka onye nkuzi na-agụ egwú na Disemba 1901 (LRAM) na ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ afọ iri ka e mesịrị na Septemba 1910, ndị nyocha RAM, Henry William Richards na William Gray McNaught gafere ya maka Voice-Culture na Class Singing.[21][22][9]

Agụmakwụkwọ egwu ya na iru eru ya bụ nke mba ụwa, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ n'okpuru onye nkuzi abụ Italian Alberto Giovannini na Milan Conservatory; ọ kụzikwaara onye Irish na-ede egwu Thomas O'Brien Butler[23] yana onye Italian tenor Francesco Tagmagno na Austrian baritone Joseph Kaschmann.[24] Ọ kpọkwara Jacques Bouhy ka ọ na-akụzi ya na Paris (ma eleghị anya tupu ọ gaa America na 1904).[25][9] Otu n'ime ụmụ akwụkwọ Soga bụ onye Africa America Helen A. Moore nke Fiske Jubilee Singers mgbe ọ nọ na njem mba ụwa ma na-eme ihe na Glasgow, onye kwuru mgbe e mesịrị (na 1930) na ọ họọrọ Soga dị ka "n'etiti ndị isi na-agụ egwú nke mba ahụ".[26]

Soga rụrụ ọrụ na "nkwado na-aga nke ọma" nke Mass nke Beethoven na C major na olu 90 nke Blairgowrie na Rattray Choral Society na 30 Machị 1899, mgbe a jara ya mma maka ịbụ abụ ya:

"'Miss Soga gosipụtara nnukwu ọkacha mmasị. Ọ bụ onye nwere olu dị nro, nke na-egosipụta mgbe ụfọdụ àgwà dị nro nke nwa nwanyị nke Ọwụwa Anyanwụ. A kpaliri ya nke ọma maka abụ mbụ ya, ma jiri ntụgharị ọmịiko nke Bonnie Wee Thing zaghachi ya; ebe a na-akọwa Stay at Home n'ụzọ dị ụtọ.[27]

A kọwakwara uwe ya na ngalaba a na-akpọ "Ụfọdụ n'ime uwe [nke Helen]" dị ka "gold satin ochie, gaze ojii kpuchiri, yoke gbara gburugburu nke elu ahụ nke a na-akọwa site na akwa ojii. "[27]

Soga bụ onye otu Wellington United Free Church na Glasgow, ọ bụkwa odeakwụkwọ na-ede akwụkwọ maka Christian Endeavour Society nke ụka ahụ.[28] Isiokwu ndị bụ isiokwu nke mmemme Society gụnyere ọrụ Mission na Temperance. Society bụ maka ndị na-eto eto nọ na chọọchị ahụ, ebumnuche ya bụ "ịkwalite ndụ Ndị Kraịst siri ike n'etiti ndị otu ya".[29]

Soga bụrụ abụ "Like as the hart desireth" site na Abụ Ọma nke 42 n'oge Social Evening na chọọchị na Mee 1902.[30]

Na 1 Jenụwarị 1903, Soga bụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri na Coatbridge Choral Union "Grand New Year's Mid-Day Concert" nke Handel's Messiah, mana n'oge ahụ, a kọwara ya dị ka "onye na-adịghị ike na mbido mana ọ meziwanyere n'ụzọ dị ịtụnanya ka oge na-aga ... mgbalị ya kachasị mma bụ akụkụ 'A kpọrọ ya asị'.[31][32] Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Messiah ọzọ na Turriff na 15 Disemba 1903, ya na ndị ukwe ha.[33]

Na Septemba 1910 ọ gafere ule na olu-ọdịbendị na klas-abụ abụ na Royal Academy of Music .[34]

Ka ọ na-aga n'ihu na-eme ihe na ebe ndị buru ibu na obere gafee Scotland, ya na ndị otu ukwe, ma ọ bụ dị ka onye na-agụ egwú, ọ kwadokwara ịnakọta ego na ihe omume ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, na 1910, na-abụ abụ maka British Women's Temperance Association na St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow na World Women's Christian Temperance Union International Convention, ya na òtù ndị ntorobịa nke mba ụwa nke 600 olu, na ịgbakwunye n'etiti ndị ọkà okwu dị iche iche na alaka Temperance League ma ọ bụ Land League.[35][36] Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya na 1919 kwuru na "ihe ịga nke ọma nke nnọkọ ahụ abụghị obere n'ihi ntụrụndụ magburu onwe ya nke, [...] abụ Miss Soga nyere.[37][38]

Soga kpọsara na The Scotsman maka ụmụ akwụkwọ na-abụ abụ, na-akụzi kwa izu na ụlọ ahịa ọkachamara piano, nso ụlọ akwụkwọ ụmụ nwanyị na Stafford Street, Edinburgh.[39]

Soga jiri nkà abụ ya na njikọ ya na-ahazi ntụrụndụ ma ọ bụ na-akpata ego dị ka akụkụ nke idu ndú na Glasgow nke mkpọsa ụmụ nwanyị n'etiti 1908 na 1917.

N'afọ 1924, Soga sonyeere An Commun Gaidhealach mana amabeghị ma ọ bụrụ na ọ rụrụ ọrụ na nke ọ bụla n'ime National Mòds.[40]

N'afọ 1908, Soga bụ otu n'ime "ndị isi na-akpali", dị ka onye ndú mkpọsa ndọrọndọrọ ọchịchị Teresa Billington-Greig si kwuo, n'ịmepụta nnukwu alaka ọhụrụ nke Women's Freedom League na West End nke Glasgow (Hillhead). Nzukọ mmeghe ọha na eze na Hillhead Burgh Hall karịrị atụmanya nke ukwuu, ebe ọnụ ọgụgụ ahụ jupụtara na nnukwu ụlọ nzukọ na ụlọ nke abụọ, yana nnukwu ndị otu n'ihi ya.[41] A họpụtara Soga na E.S. Semple ka ha bụrụ odeakwụkwọ alaka na Febụwarị 1908 ma kwado ihe omume "At Home" n'otu ụlọ nzukọ ahụ n'ọnwa Eprel, na Margaret Irwin (onye otu ọrụ) dị ka onye isi okwu.[42]

Ọnụ ọgụgụ na ọnụ ọgụgụ nke ihe omume gụnyere oge mba, dịka na Machị 1908, mgbe Soga nyere abụ, ha haziri recitations na onye na-eme violin na ihe omume "na-agafe" na nnukwu ụlọ ndị Gris nke Glasgow (Prince of Wales Halls) iji nabata ndị mkpọrọ Scottish (WSPU) a tọhapụrụ site na Holloway. Ọ bụ Agnes Husband nke Dundee nabatara ndị ọkà okwu Amy Sanderson na Anna Munro (ha abụọ bụ ndị mkpọrọ n'onwe ha, bụ ndị nwere ukwe a na-abụ n'ụlọ mkpọrọ, ma nọrọ na Kọmitii Nchịkwa Mba WFL) na onye ọkà okwu ọzọ bụ onye isi WFL Teresa Billington-Greig.[43] Ka ọ na-erule n'ọnwa Ọktoba n'afọ ahụ, a na-enwe nzukọ alaka kwa izu abụọ, na Soga ka bụ odeakwụkwọ alaka, ugbu a na M. Barrowman.[44] A kpọtụrụ aha ya n'akwụkwọ ozi onwe onye n'etiti ndị isi ndọrọndọrọ ọchịchị Helen Crawfurd na Janet Barrowman.[9]

Ihe nlereanya Soga nke "<i id="mw4A">Cafe</i> Chantant" bụ otu n'ime ihe omume ndị na-aga nke ọma, n'ịdọta ọnụ ọgụgụ buru ibu ma bulie £ 75, a tụgharịrị ya na alaka ndị ọzọ.[45][46] Ọ hazikwara ntụrụndụ maka WSPU "Scottish Exhibition" na Charing Cross, na maka obere nzukọ alaka.[47] O nyere onyinye site na ego ọ na-enweta na ego nkuzi, gụnyere maka ihe omume WSPU nke London.[48][49][50]

 
Akwụkwọ akụkọ Suffragette

Ọ bụ ezie na ọ na-etinye aka na Women's Social and Political Union, ọ sonyeghị na ngagharị iwe ime ihe ike. Ọ bụ onye isi oche nke nzukọ WSPU n'obodo ndị dị nso, dị ka Blackwood, ma nye onyinye marmalade e mere n'ụlọ maka ire ere na ihe omume.[51][52] Ọ hazikwara ọbá akwụkwọ[53] na-agagharị agagharị nke bara uru, na-enye akwụkwọ n'onwe ya na ụlọ ọrụ WSPU Sauchiehall Street, ma nye onyinye maka ndebanye aha ọnwa isii na Women's Franchise ka e zigara ya na Woodside District Library Soga na WSPU kwụsịrị n'ihe dị ka 1917, ọ bụ ezie na WSPU akwụsịla onwe ya mgbe Agha Ụwa Mbụ malitere na 1914, na nkwekọrịta ịkwụsị ọrụ agha iji kwụọ ụgwọ maka ịtọhapụ ụmụ nwanyị a tụrụ mkpọrọ.[54][55]

Iwu nnọchiteanya nke ndị mmadụ nke 1918 nyere ụfọdụ ụmụ nwanyị ikike ịtụ vootu.[56]

Soga nwụrụ na Old People's Cottages na Rottenrow n'isi ụtụtụ nke 23 Febụwarị 1954, mgbe ọ dị afọ 83, olili ozu ya dịkwa na Western Necropolis Crematorium, Glasgow.[4][3]

Ịmara ọrụ ya

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Ka ọ dị ugbu a, ọ dịghị ihe oyiyi Soga a chọpụtara, ma ọ bụ ama ma ọ bụrụ na e nwere ụmụ nwanyị ndị ọzọ na-acha odo odo na-eme mkpọsa maka ntuli aka. Dr. TS Beall kwuru na anaghị akụzi ọrụ ndị suffragists na ndị suffragettes nke Scotland 'ọtụtụ' n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ndị Scotland, a maghịkwa aha ha.[5]

A gụnyere Soga na egwuregwu agụmakwụkwọ ọhụrụ (Top Trumps-style) na Scotland's Suffragettes Trumps, nke Protests & Suffragette (ndị na-ese ihe, ndị na-eme ihe ike na otu akụkọ ihe mere eme nke obodo gụnyere Dr. Beall) mepụtara site na ịkwụ ụgwọ iji zipụ 700 set n'ụlọ akwụkwọ.[5] Dr. Yvonne McFadden nke akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ụmụ nwanyị Scotland kpọrọ ya 'ihe na-atọ ụtọ ma dị mkpa iji hụ na ụmụ nwanyị ndị a na akụkọ ha' gụnyere na usoro agụmakwụkwọ ụlọ akwụkwọ Scotland, ebe akụkọ ihe mere mere eme nke ndị inyom na-ejikarị nkuzi akụkọ ihe mere n'ụlọ akwụkwọ.[5]

Ihe ọmụma ndị ọzọ

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A gbakwunyere aha Soga na ebe nrụọrụ weebụ "PlainsightSOUND", akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ndị egwu Black Classical na United Kingdom. A gbakwunyere aha ya na akụkọ ndụ dị mkpirikpi na usoro iheomume ya.[57]

Ebensidee

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Janet Burnside Soga | South African History Online. www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved on 2021-02-14.
  2. ↑ 1901 census, 6 Montague Street, Glasgow, Kelvin, Lanarkshire. Scotland's People (1901). Retrieved on 20 February 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Notices - SOGA", The Glasgow Herald, 23 February 1954.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 1954 Soga, Jessie Margaret Statutory Registers Deaths 644/7 32. Scotland's People (22 February 1954). Retrieved on 20 February 2021.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Paterson (6 December 2021). Gallusness 10: The Top Trumps-style project taking suffragette stories to schools (en). The National. Retrieved on 2021-12-06.
  6. ↑ Tiyo Soga | South African author (en). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved on 2021-02-18.
  7. ↑ Cousins (1899). From Kafir kraal to pulpit : the story of Tíyo Soga, Library Services University of Pretoria, London : S.W. Partridge. 
  8. ↑ Upcoming documentary on the extraordinary life of South African Dollar FP (en-GB). Dollar Academy. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved on 2021-02-18.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 McCracken (June 2021). "PERSPECTIVES ON JESSIE MARGARET SOGA’S LIFE AND CAREER". Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 75 (1): 29–46. 
  10. ↑ "Dollar Institution, Exhibition July 26 1882 - Sewing Class Lower School", The Alloa Advertiser, 29 July 1882.
  11. ↑ "Edinburgh School of Art Passes", Edinburgh Evening News, 20 July 1892.
  12. ↑ "Our Puzzle Poem ' A Bad Servant' - Highly Commended", The Girl's Own Paper, 1897.
  13. ↑ "Sacred Concert", Glasgow Evening Post, 20 December 1895.
  14. ↑ "Coatbridge Corporation Recitals", Glasgow Herald, 4 February 1897.
  15. ↑ MacKenzie (2013-07-19). Scots missions and the frontier (in en-US). Manchester University Press. DOI:10.7765/9781847794468.00009. ISBN 978-1-84779-446-8. 
  16. ↑ Soga, John Henderson (A). dacb.org. Retrieved on 2021-02-18.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Davis (2015-03-27). "Family Trees: Roots and Branches – The Dynasty and Legacy of the Reverend Tiyo Soga". Studies in World Christianity 21 (1): 20–37. DOI:10.3366/swc.2015.0103. ISSN 1354-9901. 
  18. ↑ Vets Past QRS. www.nda.agric.za. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved on 2021-02-18.
  19. ↑ "Popular Entertainments - City Hall - Saturday Evening Concert (advertisement)", Glasgow Herald, 5 November 1895, p. 6.
  20. ↑ "Education - Singing Miss Jessie M. Soga (advertisement)", The Glasgow Herald, 3 September 1896, p. Front page.
  21. ↑ (1902) "Front Matter". The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 43 (708): 73–80. ISSN 0958-8434. 
  22. ↑ (1910) "Country and Colonial News". The Musical Times 51 (813): 740–741. ISSN 0027-4666. 
  23. ↑ "Chit Chat", The Stage, 10 March 1904.
  24. ↑ Dizionario biografico dei friulani. www.dizionariobiograficodeifriulani.it. Retrieved on 2021-02-18.
  25. ↑ "General Notices", The Scotsman, 16 October 1907, p. 1.
  26. ↑ "Colored Minister to Tell Problems Confronting Race", Sierra Madre News, 21 February 1930.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Blairgowrie and Rattray Choral Society - A Successful Concert", The Dundee Advertiser, 31 March 1899, p. 6.
  28. ↑ (30 September 1901) "Christian Endeavour Society". Report of Wellington United Free Church: 12. 
  29. ↑ (30 September 1901) "Report of the Christian Endeavour Society". Report of Wellington Free Church Glasgow: 41. 
  30. ↑ "Programme of Social Evening". Wellington United Free Church: 3. 
  31. ↑ "Coatbridge Choral Union - Grand New Year's Mid-Day Concert", Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, 27 December 1902.
  32. ↑ "Coatbridge Choral Union - "The Messiah"", The Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, 3 January 1903, p. 5.
  33. ↑ "Turriff", The People's Journal, 26 December 1903, p. 8.
  34. ↑ (1 November 1910) "The Musical Times". The Musical Times 51 (813): 740. 
  35. ↑ "BWTA", The Airdrie and Coatbriadge Advertiser, 26 May 1910, p. 4.
  36. ↑ "Temperance Demonstration - Last Night", The Alloa Advertiser, 9 February 1907.
  37. ↑ "News of the Movement - Edinburgh League", Land-Values, May 1918, p. 106.
  38. ↑ "News of the Movement - Edinburgh League", Land & Liberty, June 1919, p. 145.
  39. ↑ Pianoforte-makers in Scotland. www.lieveverbeeck.eu. Retrieved on 2021-03-06.
  40. ↑ "An Commun Gaidhealach - Ordinary Members", An Gaìdheal, November 1924, p. 32.
  41. ↑ "Scottish Notes", Women's Franchise, January 1908, p. 345.
  42. ↑ "Branch Notes - Hillhead Branch", Women's Freedom League, 20 February 1908, p. 392.
  43. ↑ "Scottish Notes", Women's Freedom League, 19 March 1908, p. 444.
  44. ↑ "Branch Notes - The Hillhead Branch", Women's Freedom League, 1 October 1908, p. 153.
  45. ↑ "Branch Notes - Hillhead Branch", Women's Freedom League, 24 December 1908, p. 313.
  46. ↑ "Scottish Notes", Women's Freedom League, 31 December 1908, p. 324.
  47. ↑ "The Scottish Exhibition - The Openers:Lady Constance Lytton and Miss Decima Moore - The Entertainment", Votes for Women, 29 April 1910, p. 494.
  48. ↑ "Guarantee Fund to "Women's Franchise"", Women's Franchise, 16 January 1908.
  49. ↑ "Contributions to the £250,000 Fund October 14 to October 18", The Suffragette, 25 October 1912, p. 21.
  50. ↑ "Come to Our Christmas Sale - Large Crowds and Record Sales", The Suffragette, 13 December 1912, p. 128.
  51. ↑ "Glasgow", The Suffragette, 28 November 1913, p. 163.
  52. ↑ "Glasgow", The Suffragette, 21 February 1913, p. 298.
  53. ↑ "Notes", Women's Franchise, 23 April 1908.
  54. ↑ "Contributions to the £250,000 Fund - December 20 to December 30", The Suffragette, 3 January 1913, p. 173.
  55. ↑ Geddes (February 2008). "Culpable Complicity: the medical profession and the forcible feeding of suffragettes, 1909–1914" (in en). Women's History Review 17 (1): 79–94. DOI:10.1080/09612020701627977. ISSN 0961-2025. 
  56. ↑ "How UK women get the vote: Suffragettes, suffragists and the Representation of the People Act 1918 - CBBC Newsround". Retrieved on 2021-02-18. (in en-GB)
  57. ↑ August 21, 1870 - February 23, 1954 Jessie Margaret Soga. PlainsightSOUND (24 June 2022). Retrieved on 24 June 2022.

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