Marjorie Fulton | |
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Birth name | Marjorie McAllister Fulton |
Born |
Oklahoma City |
December 28, 1909
Died | November 3, 1962 Dallas, Texas |
(aged 52)
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Concert artist Music school pedagog |
Instruments | violin |
Years active | 1935–1962 |
Associated acts | Aspen Music Festival and School |
Marjorie Fulton (married name Marjorie Harrell; née Marjorie McAllister Fulton; December 28, 1909 — November 3, 1962) was an acclaimed American concert violinist and music educator of distinction.
Fulton was born in Oklahoma City, where she began studying piano at age nine, in 1918. She attended the Curtis Institute of Music and held fellowships at The Juilliard School, graduating with honors in 1935. While at Curtis, Fulton met Mack Harrell who had studied violin at Oklahoma City University and was continuing violin studies at Curtis. They married in 1935 in New York City, the same year that she received her graduate diploma from Juilliard. Mack Harrell flourished as a concert and operatic baritone, notably with the Metropolitan Opera, and Fulton continued to perform and teach. One of their three children, Lynn Harrell, born in 1944, is an internationally renowned concert cellist.
Fulton had performed with many major groups around the world and had given concerts at The Town Hall (debut — 4 February 1953) and Carnegie Hall in New York City, and Jordan Hall in Boston (1936–1937).
As a violin teacher, Fulton taught privately in Boston (from 1936 to 1937), New York, and Dallas. She had taught at the University of North Texas College of Music, beginning in 1958, and became an artist in residence there in 1960. She also had taught at the Aspen Music Festival and School where her husband was director from 1954 until his death in 1960.