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STOKES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS VOLUME II, 1908
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1metropolis; and on Oct. 2, 1854, the ACADEMY OF MUSIC was opened with "Norma," the cast including Grisi and Mario. BERGMANN and THEODORE THOMAS were the pioneers in giving chamber music and orchestral concerts, and the musical progress of the community was soon proportionate with the growth of population. New York Arion was, in 1908, one of the largest and most important German singing societies in the world, having a well trained chorus of 150 active members, Julius LORENZ, director, which gave concerts and operettas. Frank VAN DER STUCKEN was musical director for many years. The Arion was especially strong in its social features, and its annual masked ball was for many years the principal event of its kind in the city. New York Aschenbroedel Verein, with a membership of more than 800 musicians, maintained a clubhouse on East 86th Street, frequented by composers, conductors, and players alike, and was famous for its jollity and good fellowship. The first home of the Aschenbroedels, opened more than half a century ago, was in Fourth Street. The members took possession of their present quarters in 1894, and since then the organization maintained a steady growth. The Catholic Oratorio Society, having an active membership of 50, gave subscription concerts. The musical director in 1908 was C. de Macchi. New York Church Choral Society was organized, 1889, on plans drawn up by Richard Henry Warren, organist of St. Bartholomew's Church for the performance of sacred music under his direction. St. Bartholomew's choir was the nucleus, and singers were drawn from other churches for the performances, which invariably took place in the churches and as religious functions. J. Pierpont Morgan and the late Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter were president and vice-president. Institute of Musical Art, which entered on its fourth year in 1908, provided for the instruction of "all lovers of music who desire to study intelligently and not superficially," as well as professional and post-graduate courses, and a special course in Public School Music. The financial basis of the Institute was an endowment of $500,000 from James Loeb in memory of his mother, known as "The Betty Loeb Memorial Fund." It had a subscription for a term of years amounting to $4000 per annum, and a guarantee fund in addition. Dr. Frank DAMROSCH, the director on the Institute's foundation, retained that office in 1908, when the faculty consisted of: Voice: William Nelson Burritt, Adriaan Freni, George Henschel, Wilfried Oswald Klamroth, Mme. Matja von Niessen-Stone, Miss Emma Cecilia Thursby, Mrs. Theodore Toedt, Mlle. Madeleine Walther. Piano: Miss Helena Augustin, William H. Barber, Miss Carolyn Harding Beebe, Forrest J. Cressman, Miss Agnes Gardner Eyre, Miss Elizabeth Gallagher, Arthur Hochmann, Miss Anna G. Lockwood, Miss Virginia Lucy, Miss Mary B. Merrill, Miss Henrietta Michelson, Miss Mabel Phipps, Mme. George Sang-Collins, Mrs. Allen Lewis Seymour, Sigismund Stojowski, Mrs. Thomas Tapper. Stringed Instruments: Arthur Agiewicz, Edouard Dethier, Mark Fonaroff, Carlos Hasselbrink, Franz Kneisel, Julius Roentgen, Louis Svecenski, Violin and Viola; William Willeke, 'Cello; Ludwig Manoly, doublebass. Orchestra: Caesare Adimando, Oboe; George Barrère, Flute; Hermann Hand, Horn; Henry Léon Leroy, Clarinet; Auguste Mesnard, Bassoon; J. Fred Sietz, Timpani; Sam Tilkin, Trombone; Vincent Fanelli, Harp. Organ: Gaston Dethier. Theory and Composition: Forrest J. Cressman, Daniel Gregory Mason, Percy Goetschius. Ear-training, Sight-singing, and Chorus: Miss Vernetta E. Coleman, Franklin W. Robinson, Frank Damrosch. Pedagogy and Public School Music: Miss Vernetta E. Coleman, Thomas Tapper, Frank Damrosch. Languages: Mme. Marguerite Merlin-Albro, Miss Bertha Firgau, Edward Grossman, Edoardo Petri. Lectures: William J. Henderson, Henry E. Krehbiel, Daniel Gregory Mason, Waldo Selden Pratt, Thomas Tapper. The enrollment of students, 1907-8,
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