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George Whitefield Chadwick GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK, who for thirty-three years has been the beloved Director of our Conservatory and who has recently become the Director Emeritus, is representative of what is best in American music as a musical member in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Strictly academic as are his dignity as a musician and authority as an educator, they are offset by humor and common sense. The secret of his success in directing the Conservatory, of his success as a teacher, b his rare combin- ation of authority, tact, kindness and unfailing interest. Mr. Chadwick has been particularly happy in giving musical expression to something that has been characterized as strictly and strikingly American. Was not he the most American in that group of the big four , Chadwick, Foote, MacDowell, and Parker? Is there a work more American than is Chad- wick ' s jauntily irreverent Vagrom Ballad, and will not Mr. Chadwick easily remain the 6rst to deserve and keep that title which collectively is now applied to a company of slightly mixed origin and rather international tendencies? He is first and foremost a symphonic composer. He thinks and hears orchestrally. In it he expresses himself most fully, most happily. Persons, moods, and actions are translated into orchestral sounds of contour, color and meaning. In his Symphonic Sketches he shows an irreverent attitude toward worn out convention that is not recognized in music of foreign composers great or humble, while in the overture he has found a form esjjecially suited to his ptoetic intentions and range of emotions. H. E. Krehbiel wrote of Mr. Chadwick in 1903: In his Symphony in F, and Quartet in E minor there are traces of an idiomatic expression which since Dr. Dvorak ' s sojourn in the United States has been discussed more or less intelligently as a possible trait for an American School of Composition. Of his comic opera, Tabasco , Philip Hale has written, He of our American Composers has not only melody, rhythm and color facility, but a strong sense of humor, an appreciation of values, and that quality known as horse sense. Mr. Chadwick has published over a hundred songs. He does not disdain simplicity in them. He can be popular in a sense of the word and turn out a tune that runs along in a straight and even gait like the most anonymous folk song. None of them is so artless that it does not by some slight token betray the deft hand of the artisan. Humorous lyrics are filed to a sharper edge when set in Mr. Chadwick ' s musical italics. Manly and heroic poems he clothes in stirring airs and martial rhythms. Following Mr. Chadwick and foremost among those Americans who have come under his teaching influence are Frederick Converse, Henry Hadley, Burlingame Hill, Daniel Gregory Mason, Horatio Parker, and Arthur Shepherd. Since this page received the approval of Mr. Chadtoick just two days before his sudden passing away on Easter Eve, April iih, 1931, and as the Xeume had already gone to press, both the Directory Committee and Editor feel that under the present circumstances, the book should remain as he last saw it. But Jloujers distilled though they vnlh winter meet, Leese but their show, their substarue still lives sweet. Shakespeare.
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