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MacDowell Clubs

January 01, 1970

The MacDowell Clubs in the United States were established at the turn of the twentieth century to honor internationally recognized American composer Edward MacDowell. They became part of a broader social movement to promote music and other art forms in America.

History edit

The first MacDowell music club was established in 1896 in Boston by Edward MacDowell's students — The MacDowell Club of Boston (Edith Noyes Greene was one of the founders).[1][2] Club in Providence, Rhode Island was founded in 1901,[3] and another one, in Baker City, Oregon, in 1903,[4] another club formed in Conneaut, Ohio in 1903.[3]: 17  The MacDowell Club of Canton was founded in 1908;[5] its members donated funds for construction of the Gail Watson Cable Recital Hall.[3]: 85  The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts of Los Angeles was established in 1918.[3]: 62  In Cincinnati, not a club, but the Cincinnati MacDowell Society was founded in 1913, which formed significant ties with the MacDowell Colony.[3]: 52 

At the peak of their popularity before and during the World War II, about 400 independent clubs functioned in the nation. In 1955, Marian MacDowell wrote in a letter, "I suppose in the last forty years there must have been nearly 400; probably there are 300 now."[3]: 64  War-time entry of women into the workforce and later social developments decreased the membership, and combined with advances in transportation and communication diminished the role of MacDowell Clubs both as social hubs and entertainment venues. In 2008, fifteen MacDowell Clubs continued to operate,[2]: 289  including, in Altus, Oklahoma; Dyersburg, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; Louisville, Kentucky; Canton, Ohio; Chickasha, Oklahoma; Janesville, Wisconsin; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[6] As of 2015, such clubs, as the MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes in New Jersey (established in 1916 by Lazelle Crooks Whitmore),[7] the MacDowell Club of Allied Arts in Oklahoma City (established in 1920 by Hyla Florence Long),[8] the MacDowell Music Club in Janesville, Wisconsin,[9] the MacDowell Music Club of Chattanooga (founded in 1916),[10] and the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee (established in 2008)[11] were functioning.

A typical small club gathering would feature a privately held meeting with invited talks, piano and vocal solos and duets of local performers.[12] Bigger clubs were able to organize academic lectures, concerts, recitals (including Marian MacDowell's or other well-known national performers) and art exhibitions opened to the general public, as well as private dinners, pageants, and balls. Several organizations, including clubs in New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Illinois, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Canton, Ohio, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oklahoma City, and Altus, Oklahoma,[3]: 82  among others, established student funds and scholarships for youth and developed outreach programs through Junior MacDowell Clubs while continuing to support financially the MacDowell Colony. Several clubs established their own choruses, as in New York City, Boston and Milwaukee; other — vocal ensembles. In Boston, the MacDowell Club Orchestra consisting mainly of amateur and semiprofessional female musicians gave performances in Copley Hall; the MacDowell clubs of New York, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles also formed their own orchestras. All employed well-known conductors, such as Georges Longy, and Arthur Fiedler in Boston; in New York, orchestra was formed in 1929, led by David Mannes, a concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and held concerts in Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Opera House.[3]: 67-69 

All clubs were responsible for adopting their own bylaws and acted differently in defining their membership: some were accepting musicians only, as the MacDowell Club of Green Bay in Wisconsin, or the Macdowell Club of Mountain Lakes in New Jersey,[13] other subscribed to an allied arts organization philosophy championed by Edward MacDowell as the MacDowell Club of New York City;[14] some were operating strictly as women's clubs, i.e., the MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes, the MacDowell Club of Los Angeles, or the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee, while other accepted men, as clubs in Boston and New York did. However, most of the MacDowell clubs were "female-only organizations."[3]: 63  Many clubs joined the National Federation of Music Clubs.

MacDowell Club of New York edit

The MacDowell Colony, Inc.
1907 Charter, Paragraph 3

To promote the arts of music, literature and the drama, architecture, painting and sculpture, and the other fine arts; to encourage study, research and production of all branches of art; to develop a sympathetic understanding of their correlation and appreciation of their value; and to broaden their influence: and thus carry forward the life purpose of Edward MacDowell

The MacDowell Club of New York City was established in 1905 and disbanded in 1942. It was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting the MacDowell Colony, the artists' retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The Club funded and awarded a resident scholarship at the MacDowell Colony and made regular financial contributions.[15]

The club charter declared the main goals of the club as following:

To discuss and demonstrate the principles of the arts of music, literature, the drama, painting, sculpture, and architecture, and to aid in the extension of knowledge of works especially fitted to exemplify the finer purposes of these arts, including works deserving wider recognition, and to promote a sympathetic understanding of the correlation of these arts, and to contribute to the broadening of their influences; thus carrying forward the life purpose of Edward MacDowell.[15]

In a few years the membership of the club grew to 600.[15] Club membership included writers, musicians, performing and visual artists, theate and film actors, sculptors, and architects: Hamlin Garland, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Harvey Robinson, John Dewey, Leonora Speyer, Herbert Adams, Robert Aitken, Hobart Nichols, Irving Ramsey Wiles, Ivan Olinsky, F. Luis Mora, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Louise Homer, David Bispham, Katherine Bacon (1896-1952), Francis Stetson Rogers (1870-1951), Charles Coburn, Harriet Rogers (Otis) Dellenbaugh, Beatrice Cameron, Harold Van Buren Magonigle, and May Riley Smith, among others.[15]

Facilities edit

 
166 East 73rd Street

The MacDowell Club was initially located in the Carnegie Hall studio (1905-1909), then at the old Metropolitan Opera House (1909-1911). In 1911, the Club moved to a spacious building at 108 W 55th Street,[16] which featured a large vaulted gallery.[17]

In 1924, the MacDowell Club purchased the old converted Marquand stable — located at 166 East 73rd Street — from the Joseph Pulitzer estate. Richard Morris Hunt had designed the original building for art collector Henry Gurdon Marquand in 1883. Shortly after Marquand's death in 1902, the building had been sold to Joseph Pulitzer, then publisher of the New York World, who lived several blocks to the east at 73rd and Park. A fire swept the building in 1935 and destroyed prints by Whistler, Hassam and others.[18]

In 1979, the Landmarks Preservation Commission proposed 12 of the 13 stable and garage buildings on the block for designation as part of the East 73rd Street Historic District, excluding the Marquand building. A year later Halina Rosenthal, head of the block association and later founder of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, lobbied the commission to include the Marquand stable in the designation, which it did in 1981.

MacDowell Chorus edit

The MacDowell Chorus was formed in November 1909, under the direction of Kurt Schindler. Two months after its founding, Gustav Mahler, then the conductor of The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, invited the chorus to perform with the orchestra.[19] In 1912, Schindler changed the name to Schola Cantorum. Schindler continued to conduct the Schola Cantorum until January 1926, when he accepted an offer to take charge of the Roxy Theatre. Hugh Ross later became the director of the chorus.

Student Fund Committee edit

The MacDowell Club established a scholarship fund to support aspiring talented young artists, and funded a resident scholarship in Professor George Baker's Drama Workshop at Harvard University, and a resident fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.[15]

Notable art exhibitors edit

In 1911, John W. Alexander, the Club's second president, instituted a revolutionary for the time change by introducing an open exhibition, or no jury policy.[16] Group of artists started to select works for exhibition in the MacDowell Club galleries by themselves. Many talented, but previously unrecognized artists, such as Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, among others, received an opportunity to promote their works.

Among the notable art exhibitors were:

Presidents edit

Charter members edit

References edit

  1. ^ The Federated Clubs, The Musical Monitor, Volume 8, p. 550.
  2. ^ a b Bomberger, E. Douglas. MacDowell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 287.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Yackley, Elizabeth A. Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. M.A. thesis. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
  4. ^ Gary Dielman. The MacDowell Club of Baker 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ "Canton Orchestra celebrates Anniversary Of MacDowell Music Colony". from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  6. ^ For a full list of active MacDowell Clubs as of 2008, see: Yackley, Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs. p. 97.
  7. ^ "The MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey". from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  8. ^ "The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts — Oklahoma City". from the original on 2016-01-30. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  9. ^ "MacDowell Music Club, Janesville, Wisconsin". from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  10. ^ MacDowell Music Club of Chattanooga on Facebook
  11. ^ "The MacDowell Club of Milwaukee". from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  12. ^ Final Meeting of MacDowell Club 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Lodi Sentinel (Lodi, California), June 8, 1922.
  13. ^ Baldwin, Marcella V. (1987) Willing & Able: A History of the Macdowell Club of Mountain Lakes, N.J., 1916-1946.
  14. ^ Browne, Anita, Edwin A. Robinson, and Percy MacKaye. A Mosaic of Muses of the Macdowell Club of New York City: Benjamin Prince, President, Compiled and Designed by Anita Browne. New York: Poets Press, 1930.
  15. ^ a b c d e Guide to the MacDowell Club of New York City Records, 1905-1942 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, New York Historical Society
  16. ^ a b An Art Exhibition Without a Jury System of Award 2023-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 14, 1911
  17. ^ Richard H. Love, Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter From Rochester to Rockport, pg. 183, col. 2, University of Rochester Press (1999)
  18. ^ On a Block of Stables, an Unexpected Restoration, The New York Times, June 3, 2007
  19. ^ Gustav Stickley, The MacDowell Chorus, A New Music Development in New York, The Craftsman, Vol. 19, pg. 316, Oct 1910–Mar 1911, New York

Further reading edit

  • Yackley, Elizabeth A. Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs. M.A. thesis. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

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The MacDowell Clubs in the United States were established at the turn of the twentieth century to honor internationally recognized American composer Edward MacDowell They became part of a broader social movement to promote music and other art forms in America Contents 1 History 2 MacDowell Club of New York 2 1 Facilities 2 2 MacDowell Chorus 2 3 Student Fund Committee 2 4 Notable art exhibitors 2 5 Presidents 2 6 Charter members 3 References 4 Further readingHistory editThe first MacDowell music club was established in 1896 in Boston by Edward MacDowell s students The MacDowell Club of Boston Edith Noyes Greene was one of the founders 1 2 Club in Providence Rhode Island was founded in 1901 3 and another one in Baker City Oregon in 1903 4 another club formed in Conneaut Ohio in 1903 3 17 The MacDowell Club of Canton was founded in 1908 5 its members donated funds for construction of the Gail Watson Cable Recital Hall 3 85 The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts of Los Angeles was established in 1918 3 62 In Cincinnati not a club but the Cincinnati MacDowell Society was founded in 1913 which formed significant ties with the MacDowell Colony 3 52 At the peak of their popularity before and during the World War II about 400 independent clubs functioned in the nation In 1955 Marian MacDowell wrote in a letter I suppose in the last forty years there must have been nearly 400 probably there are 300 now 3 64 War time entry of women into the workforce and later social developments decreased the membership and combined with advances in transportation and communication diminished the role of MacDowell Clubs both as social hubs and entertainment venues In 2008 fifteen MacDowell Clubs continued to operate 2 289 including in Altus Oklahoma Dyersburg Tennessee Jackson Mississippi Louisville Kentucky Canton Ohio Chickasha Oklahoma Janesville Wisconsin and Milwaukee Wisconsin 6 As of 2015 such clubs as the MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes in New Jersey established in 1916 by Lazelle Crooks Whitmore 7 the MacDowell Club of Allied Arts in Oklahoma City established in 1920 by Hyla Florence Long 8 the MacDowell Music Club in Janesville Wisconsin 9 the MacDowell Music Club of Chattanooga founded in 1916 10 and the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee established in 2008 11 were functioning A typical small club gathering would feature a privately held meeting with invited talks piano and vocal solos and duets of local performers 12 Bigger clubs were able to organize academic lectures concerts recitals including Marian MacDowell s or other well known national performers and art exhibitions opened to the general public as well as private dinners pageants and balls Several organizations including clubs in New York City Los Angeles Austin Illinois Green Bay Wisconsin Canton Ohio Chattanooga Tennessee Oklahoma City and Altus Oklahoma 3 82 among others established student funds and scholarships for youth and developed outreach programs through Junior MacDowell Clubs while continuing to support financially the MacDowell Colony Several clubs established their own choruses as in New York City Boston and Milwaukee other vocal ensembles In Boston the MacDowell Club Orchestra consisting mainly of amateur and semiprofessional female musicians gave performances in Copley Hall the MacDowell clubs of New York Milwaukee and Los Angeles also formed their own orchestras All employed well known conductors such as Georges Longy and Arthur Fiedler in Boston in New York orchestra was formed in 1929 led by David Mannes a concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra and held concerts in Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Opera House 3 67 69 All clubs were responsible for adopting their own bylaws and acted differently in defining their membership some were accepting musicians only as the MacDowell Club of Green Bay in Wisconsin or the Macdowell Club of Mountain Lakes in New Jersey 13 other subscribed to an allied arts organization philosophy championed by Edward MacDowell as the MacDowell Club of New York City 14 some were operating strictly as women s clubs i e the MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes the MacDowell Club of Los Angeles or the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee while other accepted men as clubs in Boston and New York did However most of the MacDowell clubs were female only organizations 3 63 Many clubs joined the National Federation of Music Clubs MacDowell Club of New York editThe MacDowell Colony Inc 1907 Charter Paragraph 3 To promote the arts of music literature and the drama architecture painting and sculpture and the other fine arts to encourage study research and production of all branches of art to develop a sympathetic understanding of their correlation and appreciation of their value and to broaden their influence and thus carry forward the life purpose of Edward MacDowell The MacDowell Club of New York City was established in 1905 and disbanded in 1942 It was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting the MacDowell Colony the artists retreat in Peterborough New Hampshire The Club funded and awarded a resident scholarship at the MacDowell Colony and made regular financial contributions 15 The club charter declared the main goals of the club as following To discuss and demonstrate the principles of the arts of music literature the drama painting sculpture and architecture and to aid in the extension of knowledge of works especially fitted to exemplify the finer purposes of these arts including works deserving wider recognition and to promote a sympathetic understanding of the correlation of these arts and to contribute to the broadening of their influences thus carrying forward the life purpose of Edward MacDowell 15 In a few years the membership of the club grew to 600 15 Club membership included writers musicians performing and visual artists theate and film actors sculptors and architects Hamlin Garland Richard Watson Gilder Edwin Arlington Robinson James Harvey Robinson John Dewey Leonora Speyer Herbert Adams Robert Aitken Hobart Nichols Irving Ramsey Wiles Ivan Olinsky F Luis Mora Robert Henri George Bellows Louise Homer David Bispham Katherine Bacon 1896 1952 Francis Stetson Rogers 1870 1951 Charles Coburn Harriet Rogers Otis Dellenbaugh Beatrice Cameron Harold Van Buren Magonigle and May Riley Smith among others 15 Facilities edit nbsp 166 East 73rd Street The MacDowell Club was initially located in the Carnegie Hall studio 1905 1909 then at the old Metropolitan Opera House 1909 1911 In 1911 the Club moved to a spacious building at 108 W 55th Street 16 which featured a large vaulted gallery 17 In 1924 the MacDowell Club purchased the old converted Marquand stable located at 166 East 73rd Street from the Joseph Pulitzer estate Richard Morris Hunt had designed the original building for art collector Henry Gurdon Marquand in 1883 Shortly after Marquand s death in 1902 the building had been sold to Joseph Pulitzer then publisher of the New York World who lived several blocks to the east at 73rd and Park A fire swept the building in 1935 and destroyed prints by Whistler Hassam and others 18 In 1979 the Landmarks Preservation Commission proposed 12 of the 13 stable and garage buildings on the block for designation as part of the East 73rd Street Historic District excluding the Marquand building A year later Halina Rosenthal head of the block association and later founder of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts lobbied the commission to include the Marquand stable in the designation which it did in 1981 MacDowell Chorus edit The MacDowell Chorus was formed in November 1909 under the direction of Kurt Schindler Two months after its founding Gustav Mahler then the conductor of The New York Philharmonic Orchestra invited the chorus to perform with the orchestra 19 In 1912 Schindler changed the name to Schola Cantorum Schindler continued to conduct the Schola Cantorum until January 1926 when he accepted an offer to take charge of the Roxy Theatre Hugh Ross later became the director of the chorus Student Fund Committee edit The MacDowell Club established a scholarship fund to support aspiring talented young artists and funded a resident scholarship in Professor George Baker s Drama Workshop at Harvard University and a resident fellowship at the MacDowell Colony 15 Notable art exhibitors edit In 1911 John W Alexander the Club s second president instituted a revolutionary for the time change by introducing an open exhibition or no jury policy 16 Group of artists started to select works for exhibition in the MacDowell Club galleries by themselves Many talented but previously unrecognized artists such as Stuart Davis Edward Hopper Yasuo Kuniyoshi among others received an opportunity to promote their works Among the notable art exhibitors were Edward Hopper 1912 Colin Campbell Cooper 1912 George Bellows 1917 C K Chatterton 1917 William Laurel Harris Saint Francis de Sales before Pope Clement VIII Helen Farnsworth Mears one of 3 bronze bas reliefs of Edward MacDowell Abraham Jacob Bogdanove 1918 Presidents edit Eugene Heffley John White Alexander Frederick Stokes Ernest Peixotto Frederick S Dellenbaugh Benjamin Prince Cecil Smith Hartwell Cahell Charter members edit Kate Sara Chittenden Mrs Edgar L Street b Somerset Pennsylvania d 1935 New York City References edit The Federated Clubs The Musical Monitor Volume 8 p 550 a b Bomberger E Douglas MacDowell New York Oxford University Press 2013 p 287 a b c d e f g h i Yackley Elizabeth A Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs Archived 2016 03 04 at the Wayback Machine M A thesis University of Maryland College Park 2008 Gary Dielman The MacDowell Club of Baker Archived 2015 12 22 at the Wayback Machine Canton Orchestra celebrates Anniversary Of MacDowell Music Colony Archived from the original on 2015 12 22 Retrieved 2015 12 21 For a full list of active MacDowell Clubs as of 2008 see Yackley Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs p 97 The MacDowell Club of Mountain Lakes New Jersey Archived from the original on 2015 12 22 Retrieved 2015 12 21 The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Oklahoma City Archived from the original on 2016 01 30 Retrieved 2015 12 21 MacDowell Music Club Janesville Wisconsin Archived from the original on 2015 12 22 Retrieved 2015 12 21 MacDowell Music Club of Chattanooga on Facebook The MacDowell Club of Milwaukee Archived from the original on 2015 12 22 Retrieved 2015 12 21 Final Meeting of MacDowell Club Archived 2015 12 22 at the Wayback Machine The Lodi Sentinel Lodi California June 8 1922 Baldwin Marcella V 1987 Willing amp Able A History of the Macdowell Club of Mountain Lakes N J 1916 1946 Browne Anita Edwin A Robinson and Percy MacKaye A Mosaic of Muses of the Macdowell Club of New York City Benjamin Prince President Compiled and Designed by Anita Browne New York Poets Press 1930 a b c d e Guide to the MacDowell Club of New York City Records 1905 1942 Archived 2015 12 22 at the Wayback Machine New York Historical Society a b An Art Exhibition Without a Jury System of Award Archived 2023 03 04 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times May 14 1911 Richard H Love Carl W Peters American Scene Painter From Rochester to Rockport pg 183 col 2 University of Rochester Press 1999 On a Block of Stables an Unexpected Restoration The New York Times June 3 2007 Gustav Stickley The MacDowell Chorus A New Music Development in New York The Craftsman Vol 19 pg 316 Oct 1910 Mar 1911 New YorkFurther reading editYackley Elizabeth A Marian MacDowell and the Macdowell Clubs M A thesis University of Maryland College Park 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title MacDowell Clubs amp oldid 1144814674 MacDowell Chorus, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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