Sara Opal Piontkowski Heron Search[1] (14 July 1890 – 3 September 1961)[2] was an American composer[3] who wrote chamber music as well as works for orchestra,[4] concert band, and voice[5] under the names Opal Heron and Sara Opal Search.
In 1923, she divorced Heron and married cellist and composer Frederick Preston Search,[8] who was an orchestra leader at the Hotel del Monte in Carmel, California, at the time.
[10] In a letter to Howes Norris Jr., who had requested her autograph, she noted that.
"my Symphony in c minor is my first composition; Mr. Wallenstine [probably Alfred Wellenstein] is the first conductor to read it and conduct it; and you are the first person to ask me for my autograph!
"[11] Search’s works are archived at the University of California, Berkeley’s Hargrove Music Library.