1932 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Boston Massachusetts TICKET Albers MASS

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Rare 1932-1933 first semester ticket for a student from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Student's name is Christian (?) Albers.
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The
New England Conservatory of Music
(
NEC
) in
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, is the oldest independent
school of music
in the United States, and it is widely recognized as one of the country's most reputable music schools. NEC is especially known for its
strings
,
woodwinds
, and
brass
departments, and its prestigious
chamber music
program.
[3]
The conservatory, located on
Huntington Avenue of the Arts
near
Boston Symphony Hall
, is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its
Preparatory School
as well as the
School of Continuing Education
. At the collegiate level, NEC offers the
Bachelor of Music
,
Master of Music
, and
Doctor of Musical Arts
, as well as the Undergraduate Diploma, Graduate Diploma, and Artist Diploma. Also offered are five-year joint double-degree programs with
Harvard University
and
Tufts University
.
[4]
NEC is the only music school in the United States designated as a
National Historic Landmark
and it is a pending
Boston Landmark
. Its primary concert hall,
Jordan Hall
, hosts approximately 600 concerts each year.
[5]
Early history
[
edit
]
Eben Tourjée
In June 1853, Eben Tourjée, at the time a nineteen-year-old music teacher from Providence, Rhode Island, made his first attempt to found a music conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. He met with a group of Boston's most influential musical leaders to discuss a school based on the conservatories of Europe. The group included
John Sullivan Dwight
, an influential music critic, Dr. J. Baxter Upham, president of the Harvard Musical Association, and
Oliver Ditson
, a prominent music publisher. The group ultimately rejected Tourjée's plans, arguing that it was a poor idea to open a conservatory amidst the nation's political and economic uncertainty that would lead up to the
American Civil War
.
Tourjée made his next attempt in December 1866, when he again met with a group of Boston's top musicians and music patrons. Among Upham, Ditson, and Dwight at this meeting were
Carl Zerrahn
, a popular Boston conductor, and
Charles Perkins
, a prominent arts patron. In the thirteen-year interim, Tourjee had founded three music schools in Rhode Island, and this time was able to win over his audience. The men agreed to help Tourjee, and The New England Conservatory officially opened on February 18, 1867. It consisted of seven rooms rented above Music Hall off Tremont Street in downtown Boston. In 1870 it moved to the former St. James Hotel in Franklin Square in the South End.
Campus
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]
The NEC campus consists of three buildings on both sides of Gainsborough Street, between St. Botolph Street and
Huntington Avenue
, one block from
Symphony Hall
. The Jordan Hall Building, whose main entrance is at 30 Gainsborough Street, is NEC's main building, home to Jordan Hall, Williams Hall, Brown Hall, the Keller Room, the Isabelle Firestone Audio Library, the Performance Library, professor studios/offices, and practice rooms. The second building, at 33 Gainsborough, is the Residence Hall, a coed dormitory which also houses the Harriet M. Spaulding Library and the "Bistro 33" dining center. The St. Botolph Building, at 241 St. Botolph street, contains Pierce Hall, a computer laboratory, the electronic music studio, and the majority of the school's classrooms and administrative offices. Each major building is described below.
Jordan Hall
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]
Main article:
Jordan Hall
The
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
performing in Jordan Hall.
Jordan Hall
is NEC's central performing space. Opened in 1903, Jordan Hall was the gift of New England Conservatory trustee Eben D. Jordan the 2nd, a member of the family that founded the
Jordan Marsh
retail stores and himself an amateur musician. In 1901, Jordan donated land for NEC's main building, while also offering to fund a concert hall with a gift of 0,000.
The dedication concert of Jordan Hall, performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, took place on October 20, 1903. Effusive newspaper accounts deemed the hall "unequaled the world over," and
The Boston Globe
reported that it was "a place of entertainment that European musicians who were present that evening say excels in beauty anything of the kind they ever saw."
[6]
A major renovation project was completed in 1995. The renovated hall proceeded to win the 1996 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award, the Victorian Society in America's Preservation Commendation, the 1996 Boston Preservation Alliance Award, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Award of Merit, and the Illuminating Engineering Society 1996 Lumen Award.
Academics
[
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]
Admission to NEC is based primarily on a competitive live audition. The Conservatory offers degrees in orchestral instruments, conducting, piano, jazz studies, contemporary improvisation, voice & opera,
vocal pedagogy
, composition, music history, and
music theory
.
The conservatory has served as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
, much like the
Curtis Institute
serves as a training ground for the
Philadelphia Orchestra
, although composers, pianists, and singers are offered courses of study as well.
Preparatory School
[
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]
New England Conservatory's Preparatory School is an open-enrollment institution for pre-college students. The Preparatory school offers music classes and private instruction for young musicians, and fosters over 20 small and large ensembles. Students enrolled in New England Conservatory's Preparatory School may participate in the Certificate Program, allowing students to achieve their optimum performance skills, competence in music theory, and a knowledge of the literature that includes choral, orchestral, and chamber music, as well as solo repertoire. NEC Prep is home to one of the world's leading youth orchestras, the highly selective Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (YPO) as well as the NEC Youth Chorale who have performed for prominent world figures including the Pope at the Vatican in the past years. The Youth Philharmonic Orchestra formerly headed by
Benjamin Zander
is arguably the most selective group at the school. In June 2007, the orchestra embarked on a highly publicized three-week tour of China. The Preparatory School also houses the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble (MYWE), a highly selective touring wind ensemble open to advanced high school woodwind, brass, and percussion players directed by Michael Mucci. The Preparatory Jazz program offers a Jazz Certificate that focuses on ensemble performance, the primary expression of Jazz, supported by private lessons and a comprehensive group of courses covering jazz skills. Jazz ensembles range in size from small groups (combos) to the Youth Jazz Orchestra. The Preparatory School routinely sends students to the finest conservatories and universities in the world.
School of Continuing Education
[
edit
]
New England Conservatory's School of Continuing Education allows members of the surrounding community to experience the benefits of New England Conservatory's world class instruction, offering classes, lessons, and ensemble opportunities to musicians of any background. At NEC's School of Continuing Education members can participate in chamber, jazz, and vocal ensembles, an opera studio, an adult chorale, a Klezmer Band, and a Community Gospel Choir. In addition, NEC's School of Continuing Education offers classes in several fields including music history, music theory, and Alexander technique, many of which are instructed by members of the New England Conservatory college faculty.
Partnerships
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edit
]
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of
From the Top
, a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by
National Public Radio
and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
[7]
The conservatory offers five-year joint double-degree programs with
Harvard University
and
Tufts University
and cross-registration with Tufts,
Northeastern University
, and
Simmons College
.
[8]
NEC is the founding institution of
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
and
Kappa Gamma Psi
Performing Arts Fraternity.
People
[
edit
]
See
New England Conservatory alumni
for a list of members of the alumni community.
See
New England Conservatory past and present teachers
for notable members of the faculty.
Nomenclature
[
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]
Although the institution is properly known as New England Conservatory, both the National Historic Landmark and the National Register of Historic Places nominations call out "New England Conservatory of Music" as the name of the historic designation.
[2]
[9]
Also, despite the statement on the subject's web site,
[10]
there is only one listing for each program, which covers the whole main building, including Jordan Hall, and no separate listing for Jordan Hall.
[11]
See also
[
edit
]
List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston
National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts
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