Entrepreneur. She started her own concert management agency, booking artists into the Music Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. She was best known for presenting "The Ruth Seufert Celebrity Series" of concerts with noted names: Metropolitan lyric soprano, Eleanor Steber; Puerto Rican pianist, Jesús María Sanromá; a violin-piano recital duo of Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; Metropolitan Opera mezzo, Rose Bampton; French pianist, Robert Casadesus; duo-pianists Wittemore and Lowe; and the entire Indianapolis symphony under Fabien Sevitzky's direction. She was married the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra's Swedish cellist, Arno Seufert; she was a concert pianist herself starting her lessons at an early age with her musically talented parents. A theater critic and friend of Ruth Nordberg Seufert described the impresario's life as "one of constant push-push-push to get bodies in the seats and money in the till". She was amazing and had the "bodies in the seats" even during World War II.
Entrepreneur. She started her own concert management agency, booking artists into the Music Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. She was best known for presenting "The Ruth Seufert Celebrity Series" of concerts with noted names: Metropolitan lyric soprano, Eleanor Steber; Puerto Rican pianist, Jesús María Sanromá; a violin-piano recital duo of Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; Metropolitan Opera mezzo, Rose Bampton; French pianist, Robert Casadesus; duo-pianists Wittemore and Lowe; and the entire Indianapolis symphony under Fabien Sevitzky's direction. She was married the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra's Swedish cellist, Arno Seufert; she was a concert pianist herself starting her lessons at an early age with her musically talented parents. A theater critic and friend of Ruth Nordberg Seufert described the impresario's life as "one of constant push-push-push to get bodies in the seats and money in the till". She was amazing and had the "bodies in the seats" even during World War II.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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