Louise Darios (Daria Luisa Pacheco de Céspedes), born 8 November 1913 Paris - 23 November 1986 Montreal) was a Peruvian singer , actress , journalist , storyteller and folklorist . Her father was the musician Juan Luis Pacheco de Céspedes.
Life
editShe studied at the Lycée Victor Duruy and at the Cours Maintenon. She studied with Reynaldo Hahn in Paris, Margarita Xirgu in Chile, Alfred La Liberté in Montreal. She studied folklore with Atahualpa Yupanqui and Marius Barbeau.[1]
From 1936 to 1938, she toured Europe beginning in Paris .From 1938 to 1948 she made long trips during which she gave concerts, radio, folklore, theater and conference talks in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Brazil.[2][3]
From 1946 to 1950, she toured with a hundred concerts in Quebec Ontario, and Montreal.[4] She co-founded the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. She taught at the École de la Chanson, and worked at Radio-Canada.[5][6] She traveled to Paris in 1948 .From 1950 to 1955, she toured South America and Quebec
She wrote Luis Pacheco de Cespedes; a great Peruvian musician .
In 1983, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) created a collection based on her manuscripts: stories, short stories, and texts for radio and television .[7]
Works
edit- Reportages du Chat Alexandre au Brésil, Éditions Héritage, [1976] ISBN 978-0-7773-3009-8
- Le retable des merveilles, et Deux histoires d'amour: souvernances Venezuela-Brésil-Honduras, Naaman, 1979 ISBN 978-2-89040-013-9
- Tous les oiseaux du monde : histoires de chansons, Beauchemin, 1975 ISBN 978-0-7750-0315-4
- Contes étranges du Canada. Montréal: Éditions Beauchemin. 1962.
- Louise Darios (1965). Strange tales of Canada. Translated by Philippa C. Gerry. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
References
edit- ^ Hamel, Réginald; Hare, John; Wyczynski, Paul (1989). Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Montréal: Fidès. ISBN 978-2-7621-1475-1.
- ^ Quill & Quire. Greey de Pencier Publications. 1965.
- ^ Society, French Folklore and Historical (1945). Bulletin.
- ^ Louise Darios: "La Chanson française a travers les siècles" : un cycle de cinq concerts ; 13, 20, 27 septembre et les 4, 10 octobre salle du Gesu - soirée : 8h. 30 (in French). éditeur non identifié. 1946.
- ^ Slaney, Frances M. (2023-03-28). Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology. University of Ottawa Press. ISBN 978-0-7766-3714-3.
- ^ Pagé, Pierre (2007). Histoire de la radio au Québec: information, éducation, culture (in French). Les Editions Fides. ISBN 978-2-7621-2770-6.
- ^ "Advitam - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec". advitam.banq.qc.ca. Retrieved 2024-05-03.