New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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T H E N EU M E Nineteen Hundred and Slx Charles Perkins Gardiner R. GARDINER was horn in Boston in 1836. IIe springs from one of the oldest families in this country, a family that includes mcrcliants, doctors, lawyers, and ministers of note. Beginning in private schools he advanced to the Boston Latin School, and later entered Lawrence Scientific School, where he made a special study of chemistry. After a year spent in travel in Europe he returned to Boston, entered the law oflice of l1is father, and has ever since heen connected with legal affairs. In 1865 he was elected a trustee of St. I'aul's School, Concord, N. II., and the following year was made treasurer, a position which he has held until his resignation in January, 1906. He is also a trustee of the Perkins Institute forthe Blind. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the New England Conservatory in 1895. The following year he hecaine Vice President, and in May, 1898, he was honored with the Presidency. Since he hecanie President the institution has made more rapid strides than ever hefore, until now it is the largest and hest equipped Conservatory of Music in the world. 8

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T H E N E U M E Nineteen Hundred and Six George Whitefield Chadwick R. CIIADNVICK isanother product of old American stock. Born in Lowell, l1is musical studies were hegun with his older hrother, and continued at the New England Conservatory. ln 1877 he went to Leipsic, where he hegan his lirst thorough study of Composition under Reinecke and Jadassohn. Then came the study of conducting with Ahel, and a more advanced course of general Composition and Organ under Rheinherger. The dominating influence of Rheinherger on the modern American school is due greatly to Mr. Chadwick, for he was the first American to study with the German master, therehy iuliuencing a large numher of young American musicians to hecome his pupils. In 1880 he returned to Boston and hecame a teacher at the Conservatory. Elected to the position of Director in 1897, Nlr. Chadwick immediately proceeded to put the Con- servatory curriculum upon Europcan lines. Under his Vligllflltl' more thorough work and a higher standard of artistic Hnish are demanded. Moreover, the excellent teaching force of the institution l1as hecome known to the general puhlic as never heforc. As a teacher he has had under his guidance such prominent musicians as Horatio YV. Parker, Arthur NVhiting, YVallace Goodrich, and Henry K. Hadley. He has heen conductor of the Boston Orchestral Cluh, Spring- tield Musical Festivals, NVorcester Festivals, and is now the conductor of the Conservatory Orchestra and Chorus. As a composer he stands in the front rank of American musicians, and is even regarded hy some as the greatest living Anglo-American writer. IO 1