Sauvage, James, 1849-1922

found: Georgetown Amateur Orchestra public rehearsal program, January 30, 1891DLC copy concert program (Mr. James Sauvage, late primo baritone, Carl Rosa Op. Co. London)

found: Wikipedia article "James Sauvage" accessed June 27, 2013(James Sauvage (born James Savage), (9 May 1849-27 November 1922) was a Welsh baritone singer. Sauvage grew up in the mining community of Penrhos, Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales, the son of Thomas and Mary Savage of The Square. At the age of eighteen, he left to seek work in the coalfields of Ohio in the United States. A few years later, in the town of Jackson, Ohio, he met Lewis William Lewis (known by his bardic name of 'Llew Llwyfo') of Penysarn, Llanwenllwyfo, Anglesey, Wales who persuaded James Savage to give up his job in the mines and join the concert party; returned to Wales, he started his singing career as a tenor he later developed as a world-famous baritone, for a number of years was a member of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Sauvage continued to make regular visits to the United States and eventually the family settled there in Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey. James took up the position of Director of Music at the Peddie Memorial Church in Newark and later was appointed Professor of Singing at Vassar College in New York. James Sauvage eventually became a naturalised United States citizen. Professor James Sauvage died in Newark, New Jersey at the age of 73. James Savage married Eleanor Lewis, the daughter of his mentor Llew Llwyfo, on 11 December 1871 at St. Louis, Missouri. They had six children)