Career
On April 29, 1940, she and Orchestrette Classique, an all female orchestra, premiered the Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra by American composer Paul Creston. The performance was at Carnegie Hall. Creston wrote Concertino for Stuber and dedicated it to the orchestra"s director, Frédérique Petrides (pronounced pe TREE dis), who asked Creston to compose lieutenant
Creston was in the Audience.
The 1940 program notes stated that Concertino was "the only work ever written for this instrument in serious form." Jeanne was a tympanist with Orchestrette Classique. She played in Musser’s 100-piece Marimba Orchestra for the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Then in 1936, Stuber moved to New York City where she studied marimba with George Hamilton Green and timpani with George Braun, who had been a percussionist (tympanist) with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1920 to 1954. In 1941, Ruth Stuber married Armand L. Jeanne (b 14 June 1911, Cornol, Switzerland.
Doctorate 16 September 16, 1968). Ruth and Armand had two sons:
Robert Lawrence Jeanne, Doctor of Philosophy (born 1942) (married Louise)
Richard Armand Jeanne (born 1944) (married LaVerne in 1971)
Both Ruth and Armand are buried at Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Ohio.
