Converse, F. S. (Frederick Shepherd), 1871-1940
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Commissioned by the St. Louis Masque and Pageant Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis. Composed 1914. First performance on Art Hill in Forrest Park, St. Louis, 28 May 1914, by the Pageant Drama Association.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1898. First performance Munich, 14 July 1898. Dedicated to the composer's wife.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1937.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
American composer and New England Conservatory of Music professor.
The name Cahokia is that given to the mounds built by the ancient race of the Mound Builders in Southwestern Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Commissioned by the St. Louis Masque and Pageant Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis. Composed 1914. First performance on Art Hill in Forrest Park, St. Louis, 28 May 1914, by the Pageant Drama Association.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
The name Cahókia is that given to the mounds built by the ancient race of the Mound Builders in Southwestern Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Commissioned by the St. Louis Masque and Pageant Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis. Composed 1914. First performance on Art Hill in Forrest Park, St. Louis, 28 May 1914, by the Pageant Drama Association.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed no later than 1903. For another version see Indian Serenade for Small Orchestra, callno.: 5841.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Commissioned by the Converse Club. Composed 1938. Dedicated to the Converse Club.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
First performance Boston, 8 May 1903, Boston Pops Orchestra. For another version see Serenade for String Orchestra, callno.: 2140s.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1917. First performance St. Louis, Missouri, 26 January 1917, St. Louis Symphony, Max Zach conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Suite from the incidental music to Percy MacKaye's play, Jeanne d'Arc. Composed 1906. First performance of this suite with enlarged orchestration Jordan Hall, Boston, 10 January 1907, Wallace Goodrich conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed for the Columbia Broadcasting System, 1939. Revised the same year.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Frederick Shepherd Converse, American composer, teacher and administrator, born Newton, MA, Jan 5, 1871; died Westwood, MA, June 8, 1940. In the late nineteenth century, he studied at Harvard University and later at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. On returing to the USA, he became active in the musical life of Boston, teaching for a time at The New England Conservatory of Music and then at Harvard University. Converse was at the height of his career as a composer between 1907 and 1914 and was one of the earliest American composers to compose successful symphonic poems.
Frederick Shepherd Converse (b. Newton, Mass., Jan. 5, 1871; d. Westwood, Mass., June 8, 1940) was an American composer, teacher and administrator. After graduating from the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich in 1898, Converse returned to the Boston area and became deeply involved in its musical life. From 1900 to 1902 he was an instructor in harmony at the New England Conservatory; from 1903 to 1907 he taught at Harvard College, first as an instructor, later as an assistant professor, resigning in 1907 to devote more time to composition. The years between 1907 and 1914 saw Converse at the height of his career as a composer. Following World War I, Converse returned to the New England Conservatory in 1920 as head of the theory department and in 1931 was appointed dean of the faculty. He resigned in 1938 due to failing health.
Composed 1903. First performance Boston, 28 May 1903, Boston Pops Orchestra.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
F. S. Converse was an American composer of classical music. He was a student of George Chadwick and John Knowles Paine, the dean of faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, and a founder of the Boston Opera Company.
Three excerpts from the photo-music-drama (silent film), Puritan passions based on Percy MacKaye's stage play, "The Scarecrow." Commissioned by the Film Guild Inc. of New York, 1923. Composed 1923. First produced with orchestra in New York, Oct. 14, 1923, at the Cameo Theater. First shown with full orchestra at Jordan Hall, Boston, Dec. 13, 1923, play by the New England Conservatory Orchestra, Wallace Goodrich conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1897. First performance Munich, 1897.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1897.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
After the poem by Walt Whitman, On the Beach at Night, from Sea-Drift. Composed 1923. First performance Boston, 19 April 1924, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
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