to train with Georges Cunelli. This change was a fortuitous one for both pupil and teacher. Cunelli was just setting out on what proved to be a storied career of fifty plus years. In his memoir he devotes a chapter to his work with Pinch, entitled My First Success. Pinch began performing professionally across Europe before returning to the United States in 1919. Return Home Pinch sailed out of Genoa for New York City on September 4th, 1919. One year later, on September 28th, she embarked on an eleven city tour of North America accompanying Enrico Caruso. Upon her return from the tour, Pinch began her first season with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York. During her second season she received glowing notices when she was called on to fill in for the lead role in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) when the principle performer Luctezia Bori fell ill the night before the performance. In addition to her Opera dates, Pinch performed frequent recitals at private "soirées", as well as concert halls in and around the New York City area. Among the more notable was her appearance at The Town Hall when she and Allen Tanner premiered the entire song cycle Słopiewnie Op. 46 bis, composed by the Modernist Polish composer Karol Szymanowski on January 20 and 21, 1922. Pinch's last performance with the Metropolitan Opera was at Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta) on April 29, 1922, when she performed the part of Siebel in Wagner's Faust.. Her contract had been renewed for three more years. Death Alice Miriam Pinch died at The Flower Hospital in New York City on July 22, 1922, after having undergone surgery for an appendicitis the week before. Funeral services were held in Glendale, Maryland on the 25th of July. Arnold Rönnebeck, after recovering from wounds suffered during the war, immigrated to the United States in 1923, and stayed with the Pinch family upon his arrival. Marsden Hartley dedicated his first published volume of poetry, Twenty-Five Poems "To Alice Miriam Pinch". Other appreciations of her work include the essay by Paul Rosenfeld, music critic for The Dial, published there in November 1922, and anthologized in his collection of essays, Musical Chronicle. References 1887 births 1922 deaths American sopranos People from Newton, Kansas