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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1F. Mueller, P. Sadony, M. Kunze, A. Gietzen, A. Bak, F. Mahn, Arthur Hadley, and the Misses Alice and Laura Kelsey.
3Purchasers of these Dolmetsch harpsichords and clavichords include Arthur Whitney, who wrote The Lesson of the Clavichord; E. B. Dane, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Henry Gideon, New York City, who gave many concerts and lectures using his harpsichord; Frank Taft, Montclair, New Jersey; the late E. F. Searles, Methuen, Massachusetts; O. G. Sonneck, Washington, D. C.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; E. P. Warren, Liverpool, England; Ferruccio Busoni; and Smith, Wellesley, and Vassar Colleges.
5There have been two noteworthy celebrations of the company's long period of service. The first was the Eightieth Anniversary held in Chickering Hall, Boston, April 14, 1903, with only employees of Chickering & Sons and their immediate families present. The program consisted of five songs sung by Miss Mary Ogilvie, accompanied by Mrs. S. B. Field, a short historical address by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, and pianoforte selections played by B. J. Lang.
7The second was a three day celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary held in April, 1923. The series of events began with a "Family Gathering" of officials and employees of the company in the great factory. This consisted of commemorative exercises, a fine concert and the presentation of a gold watch to each of the thirty-one employees who had been with the company twenty-five years or more. It closed with a banquet and dancing.
9The next day a bronze tablet commemorating the work of Jonas Chickering, the gift of Chickering representatives from all over the world, was presented at the factory before invited guests and the factory organization. The same afternoon a Centennial Concert was given in Symphony Hall. The program was opened appropriately by the Handel and Haydn Society and other numbers were given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mmes. Elly Ney and Germaine Schnitzer, Messrs. Guy Maier, Lee Pattison and Erno von Dohnanyi.
11The closing event was a dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel. Mr. Courtenay Guild was chairman of the National Committee and introduced the speakers. Mr. Calvin Coolidge, then Vice-President of the United States, was the principal speaker. Others were Mayor James M. Curley and Mr. Richard Lawrence. A con-
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