Women in Music Posters “Q...-R...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Mim, a personal memoir of Marie Rambert

Marie Rambert
b. 2-20-1888; Poland
d. 6-12-1982; England

Marie Rambert is best remembered as a teacher of modern dance and founder of the Rambert Dance Company.

Ma Rainey, Photographic Print

“Ma” Rainey, née Gertrude Malissa Nix
b. 4-26-1886; Columbus, GA
d. 12-22-1939; Columbus, GA

“Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey was one of the first entertainers to record.

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Bonnie Raitt, Rolling Stone no. 577, May 1990, Photographic Print

Bonnie Raitt
b. 11-8-1949; Burbank, CA

Della Reese, Photographic Print

Della Reese
née Delloreese Patricia Early
b. 7-6-1931; Detroit, Michigan

Della Reese, who began her career as a gospel singer with Mahalia Jackson, and moved into jazz in the 1950s, is well known as an actress in the TV series, “Touched by an Angel”.

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Debbie Reynolds, Photo Print

Debbie Reynolds
b. 4-1-1932; El Paso, TX

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Chita Rivera, Photographic Print

Chita Rivera
b. 1-23-1933; Washington, DC

Graciela Rivera, Ph.D
b. 4-17-1921; Puerto Rico

Soprano Graciela Rivera, the first Puerto Rican to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, also earned a Docotorate Degree in Humanities in 1993.

Giuseppe Valdengo (1914 - 2007) was an Italian operatic baritone.

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The Rockettes

The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, a precision dance company, is best remembered for its perfect unison, eye-high leg kick, in a chorus line. The high kick is included at the end of every performance including their five shows a day, seven days a week, during the Christmas season (since 1933).

Ginger Rogers
née Virginia Katherine McMath
b. 7-16-1911; Independence, Missouri
d. 11-4-1971; NYC

Ginger Rogers with Fred Astaire are such a famous film dance couple that just mentioning “Fred and Ginger” evoke memories of their special on screen chemistry.

The best quote about Ginger is “Sure he (Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels.” (Frank & Ernest)

Ginger Rogers also won the 1940 Acadmey Award for Best Actress for “Kitty Foyle”.

Linda Ronstadt, Rolling Stone no. 276, October 1978, Photographic Print

Linda Ronstadt
b. 7-15-1946; Tucson, AZ

Linda Ronstadt is a popular music vocalist and entertainer winning multiple Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, in addition to Tony Award and Golden Globe nominations.

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Ida Rubinstein
b. 10-5-1885; St. Petersburg
d. 9-20-1960; France

Ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein was considered an icon of the late 19th and early 20th century Belle Epoque of European history.

Rubinstein was also a patron of the arts and commissioned Maurice Ravel to write the music for a ballet - the result was Boléro.

Olga Rudge
b. 4-13-1895; Youngstown, OH
d. 3-15-1996; northern Italy, buried in Venice

Violinist Olga Rudge, best remembered as the lover of poet Ezra Pound, has no surviving recordings.

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Jia Ruskaja (Evgenija Borisenko)
b. 6-1-1902; Crimea
d. 4-19-1970; Rome

Dancer and choreographer Evgenija Borisenko was known by her stage name Jia Ruskaja in Italy.

Lillian Russell
née Helen Louise Leonard
b. 12-4-1860; Clinton, IA
d. 6-2-1922; Pennsylvania

Lillian Russell, as one of the best known and popular entertainers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the first voice to be carried over Alexander Graham Bell's long distance telephone lines - she sang in New York to audiences in Boston and Washington, D.C., May 8, 1890.

Russell was also an advocate of women's suffrage (her mother was the first woman to run for mayor of New York City), and did Marine recruitment and fundraising for the United States World War I effort.