Meditation : P. Tchaikowsky : scored for full orchestra by students in Music 6 taught by W.R. Spalding '82 : final score copied by Philip G. Clapp '10 : performed three times at Pop Concerts : manuscript, [1907]

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Boston pops orchestra

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Spalding, Walter R.

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Spalding graduated from Harvard in 1887 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Walter R. Spalding, ca. 1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973189 ...

Clapp, Philip Greeley, 1888-1954

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Composed 1909; revised 1950 and 1955.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of A song of youth : (after Hermann Hagedorn's poem, A troop of the guard) / Philip Greeley Clapp ; words by Edgar Allan Poe. [1950] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51451823 Composed 1937. First performance Cleveland, Ohio, 1940, Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Grossman conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture to a comedy...

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893

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Composed 1888-89. Scenario by Marius Petipa and I.A. Vsevolozhsky. Based on Perrault's fairy tale. First performance Maryinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, 27 Jan. 1890, R. Drigo conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of La belle au bois dormant : ballet, op. 66 / Tschaikowsky. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 41964015 Russian composer, 19th century. From the description of Autograph letter signed, from Tchaikovsky to C...

Harvard University. Department of Music (1855-)

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A professorship in music was first proposed in 1832, but it wasn't until 1855 that Harvard's catalogue listed its first music course. The music program was developed further in the 1870s by John Knowles Paine. From the description of General information by and about the Department of Music. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236231892 ...