Myrtle Elvyn

Elvyn made her debut as a pianist in Berlin in 1904, and played in Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, and Great Britain from 1905 to 1907.

[2][3][4] She was described as one of the three great American women pianists in 1908, along with Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Julie Rivé-King.

[5] "Myrtle Elvyn is wholly unexcelled in power, brilliance and endurance in the playing of strictly 'show pieces'", declared one music writer in 1914.

[12] Despite her announced retirement in 1917,[13] returned briefly to the stage in 1918 and 1919, after marriage and motherhood, as Myrtle Elvyn-Bloch.

[17] Myrtle Elvyn married Harry L. Bloch (1882-1967) in February 1917, in a ceremony performed by Chicago rabbi Gerson B.