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William A. Penno (1843–1929), known by his stage name William A. Huntley, was a composer, music teacher, and vocal and instrumental performer in minstrel and vaudeville traditions. Playing his 5-string banjo before crowds that came to number in the low thousands, he sang in a high tenor and played his banjo bare fingered, picking the strings in a style today named "classic banjo." His published compositions include banjo instrumentals and parlor music. Huntley spent his working life performing and teaching in the off season. He performed throughout the United States and toured Europe as a part of several different minstrel groups. A highlight of his performing career was to play before the Prince and Princess of Wales, about 1880 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. He moved away from minstrel shows by the 1880s, and "took pride" that he could perform without blackface stage makeup. He focused on building respectability for the banjo, through teaching, composition, and performance recitals. He was featured in the S. S. Stewart Company's catalog (showing that art-banjo promoter Stewart recognized his talent) and began to play the company's banjeaurine. In 1888 he performed before a crowd of 2,000 people in his hometown, Providence, Rhode Island. (en) |
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*William A. Huntley *Billy Huntley (en) |
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Portrait of William A. Huntley (en) |
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*1860 Mead's Euterpean Minstrels *c. Oct 1870 – Jan. 1871 Campbell and Huntley's Minstrels *1871 solo performances for two weeks *1871 Lauri English Pantomime Troupe *1871–1874 Martinetti French Ravel Pantomime Company *1873 Rogers and McKee Minstrels *1874 Huntley's Minstrels *1874–1880 solo performances variety theaters *1880 J. H. Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels *1881–1884 Whitmore and Clark's Minstrels *c. 1884–1887 John H. Lee *1884–1893 independent performances, teaching (en) |
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Arthur Wells French, songwriter for "When the birds have gone to sleep", for which Huntley composed music (en) |
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William A. Huntly, from his 1883 sheet music, Little one whisper you love me (en) |
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William A. Penno (en) |
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"Will A. Huntley gave a pleasing musical setting to a number of my songs, which met with favor in several cases and here, I recall another incident. He opened an engagement at Miner's Bowery Theatre. He was an artistic banjo player and a sweet tenor singer. At first, the manager told him he was afraid a Bowery audience would not stand for his appearing in full evening dress—swallow tails and all—and make the stage, with things thrown, look like a delicatessen shop. 'Don't you care. I'll sweep up,' said Huntley. It was a hot night and over a thousand of the audience were in shirt waists or the like. But the kids and the 'gods' were nice and recalled Huntley twice [for encores]. Then he gave them our, "When the birds nave gone to sleep." The instrumentation and voicing carries with it a flute obbligato imitating the pretty song and twitter of birds at twilight. That brought out an applause that sprained the roof. I was there and heard the sprain." (en) |
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