Alice Frisca

As a young woman, she won the MacDowell Prize from the California Federation of Music Clubs.

[6] "She has a conspicuously neat and fluent technique," noted critic Alfred Kalisch, writing in The Musical Times of her London debut in 1921, "and a touch of no little charm.

"[7] Her New York debut a few months later drew similar critical appreciation,[8] though the New-York Tribune scoffed that "Miss Frisca evidently mistakes force for brilliance," and said that she "more nearly resembled a noisy amateur than a professional pianist.

"[9] Alice Frisca married businessman Ralph Kirsch in New York, and left behind her performing career.

[11] Alice Mayer Kirsch died in 1960, aged 59 years, while in Puerto Rico with her husband.