Margaret Lorna McClure Stitt (September 10, 1886 – December 10, 1979) was an American[1] composer,[2] lecturer,[3] and playwright whose compositions were performed at the White House in 1936.
Here she met writers and set their work to music, including Katherine Hunter Coe, Annette Patton Cornell, George Elliston, Frances Emminger, Irene Grueninger, Mabel Posegate, and B. Y.
[5] In 1927, the Aeolian Company included Stitt's composition "Lullaby" in its Classified Catalog of Interpretations of the World's Best Music Recorded by More Than Two Hundred and Fifty Pianists for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano.
[6] In 1931, Stitt accompanied singers Verna Carrega, Sigurd Nilssen, and Abby Morrison Ricker in a recital of her songs for the New York Madrigal Society.
In 1936, a movement of Stitt's Quintet for Piano and Strings (Soiree) was performed for Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House in a concert by members of the National League of American Pen Women.