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

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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

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T H E N E U M E Nineteen Hundred and Six 4 James Cutler Dunn Parker R. PARKER was horn in Boston in 1828, and comes of one of tl1e oldest families. Although educated forthe law, his interest in music led him to decide upon that as his life Work, and took him ahroad for further study USS!-IS54j at Leipsic, under Moseheles, Plaidy, Ilanptmann, Rietz, Richter and others. On his return he was for t-liirty-five years organist at several Boston churches-for twenty-seven years at Trinity Church. hir. Parker has written much music, almost exclusively of a religious character. Ile was the first great American composer of large choral works, of which the most important are two sacred cantatas, The Re- demption Hymn, and 4' St. John : a secular cantata, 4' The Blind King, and an oratorio, HLife of hffanf' As a teacher his influence has heen widespread and profound. In the early seventies he was the leading instructor at the New England Conservatory of Nlusic, and his pupils always excelled. For fifteen years he has heen the esteemed Class Inspector at the same institution. Mention should also he made of his scholarly translations from several different languages, of various songs and of works on the theory and practice of music. I2 1