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Goves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, 1920
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1AMBROSE
3He has created the parts of King Hadraot (in 'Armida'), Carlo Worms (in 'Germania'), Jack Rance (in 'The Girl of the Golden West') and Golaud (in 'Pelléas et Mélisande'). Equally popular as a concert-singer, he has appeared with the Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and the New York Philharmonic Society. He is a popular 'festival-artist' and has made many concert-tours. [R.9]
5AMBROSE, PAUL (Oct. 11, 1868, Hamilton, Ont.), was the son of the composer Robert S. Ambrose. His general education was in the public schools of Hamilton and at the Collegiate Institute. He studied piano there with his father, and in New York with Parsons and Miss Chittenden, composition with Klein and orchestration with Buck. He was organist at the Madison Avenue (M.E.) Church in 1886–1890, organist at St. James' (M.E.) Church in 1890–1917, and since 1917 at the First Presbyterian Church in Trenton, N. J. He has taught and lectured on music-history at several schools, including the Institute of Applied Music in New York, and since 1904 has been director of music at the State Normal School at Trenton. He has composed songs, choruses, piano- and organ-pieces. [R.7]
7'AMERICA' is the title usually applied either to the patriotic hymn beginning 'My country, 'tis of thee' or to the tune associated with it. The hymn is by Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, D.D. (1808–1895), a distinguished Baptist clergyman, professor, editor and hymnist. The tune is the same as that of the English 'God save the King,' which has also been adopted into German and Danish use. Dr. Smith wrote the verses early in 1832, while still a theological student at Andover Seminary, to fit the music as found in a German song-book referred to him by Lowell Mason. They were probably first sung publicly under Mason's direction at a children's celebration at Park Street Church in Boston on July 4, 1832, and they soon became popular and were included in standard hymn-books from Smith and Stow's Psalmist (1843) onwards. See Burrage, Baptist Hymn-Writers, pp. 329–34, Julian, Dict. of Hymnology, under 'Smith' and 'God save the King,' and many other books on hymnody, and also Vol. ii. 188–91, of this Dictionary, Sonneck, Report on 'The Star Spangled Banner,' etc., pp. 73–8, 158–60, and many books on popular and national airs.
9'AMERICAN ART JOURNAL, THE,' established in New York in 1863, for many years gave much attention to musical subjects. See Watson, H. C., in Register, 4, and Thoms, W. M., in Register, 5.
11AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MUSICIANS, THE, was organized in 1884 by Edward M. Bowman under the general auspices of the Music Teachers' National Association. It was modeled upon the College of Organists in England, and was intended to be exclusively an agency for examination and certification as to professional proficiency. The branches included were piano, organ, voice, violin, theory and, later, public-school teaching, and grades of attainment were marked by granting the use of the terms 'associate,' 'fellow' or 'master.' About 1895 the Board of Regents of the State of New York empowered the College to grant the degrees of Mus.B. and Mus.D. The organization began with about 140 charter-members, including a fine representation of foremost musicians. The president from 1884 was Mr. Bowman, who was succeeded in 1893 by A. R. Parsons. For ten years or more the system of examinations was maintained upon a high plane, and the total number of candidates was about 235, of whom about half were approved, mostly as 'associates.' But after 1895, apparently for mechanical and financial reasons, the organization became inoperative. In 1910 Mr. Bowman urged the revival of its work, but without practical result. See Mathews, Hundred Years of Music, pp. 539–41, and a paper by Bowman in M. T. N. A. Proceedings, 1912, pp. 145–56.
13AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, THE, of Chicago, was organized in 1886 and incorporated in 1887. The founder was John J. Hattstaedt, who has remained its director since 1894, assisted by Karleton Hackett and Adolf Weidig. Its aim is 'to offer the best instruction in all branches of music and dramatic art by teachers of broad education thoroughly in sympathy with American life and its needs.' The number of teachers is about 100, and the number of students over 2200 annually. There are over 1400 graduates, of whom about 275 received the degree of Mus.B. In addition to all the lines of usual instruction fine opportunities are given for choral and orchestral experience, for operatic and dramatic training, for musical pedagogy in all its applications, etc.
15AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS, THE, founded in 1895, aims to promote the interests of musicians employed in orchestras, bands and the like. It has about 750 local unions in the United States and Canada, with a total membership of about 85,000, the president being J. N. Weber, 110–112 W. 40th St., New York.
17AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS, THE, See Vol. i. 77, and add that in 1919 the Guild had over 23 chapters in the United States and Canada, and a total membership of 1925, of whom 150 now rank as 'fellows.' The honorary presidents have been from 1896
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