Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chapman, Emma Louise, 1858-
2. Rubinstein Club (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1. .3 linear feet (1 box )

Summary

1. The William Rogers Chapman papers contain documents dating from 1921 through 1938 and primarily include materials relating to Chapman's founding of the Rubinstein Club, a women's choral group in New York City.

Subject

1. Composers
2. Clippings
3. Composers > United States
4. Conductors (Music)
5. Chapman, William Rogers, 1855-1935
6. Rubinstein Club (New York, N.Y.)
7. Conductors (Music) > United States
8. Programs
9. Choral conductors > United States

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Programs.
3. Conductors (Music)

Call number

1. JPB 06-27

Source (note)

1. Fink, Mrs. Mary Potter

Biography (note)

1. American composer and conductor, William Rogers Chapman (1855-1935) had a significant impact on the development of musical performance and education in both New York City and Maine through his founding of the Rubinstein Club and the Maine Music Festival.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Author

1. Chapman, William Rogers, 1855-1935.

Title

1. William Rogers Chapman papers, 1921-1938.

Biography

1. American composer and conductor, William Rogers Chapman (1855-1935) had a significant impact on the development of musical performance and education in both New York City and Maine through his founding of the Rubinstein Club and the Maine Music Festival. Born in Hannover, Massachusetts to the Reverend William Chapman and Emily Bishop Chapman, Chapman primarily was raised by his mother in Bethel, Maine and received his musical training in New York, Berlin, and Leipzig. While in Europe as a teenager he had played before Liszt. Chapman taught music in the public schools and became the organist at the Church of the Covenant in New York City. He chiefly composed church, choral, and piano music. The first music group Chapman organized was the Musurgia Society (a men's choral group). In 1887, he founded the Rubinstein Club of New York City, a women's choral group. The club, which met at the Waldorf-Astoria (where Chapman and his wife, Emma Louise Faulkner, who later served as president of the club, also lived) gave performances by its members, and also invited guest artists to perform with them on many occasions. Chapman later settled in Bethel, and, in 1897, he helped to establish the Maine Music Festival, which took place in Bangor and Portland; he also had ties to the Maine Symphony Orchestra.

Indexes

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Choral conductors.
2. Composers.

Added author

1. Chapman, Emma Louise, 1858-
2. Rubinstein Club (New York, N.Y.)

Research call number

1. JPB 06-27