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	Signature Magazine - Maud Powell Society
		Thurber’s strong sense of purpose can be measured by her firm alliance with Theodore Thomas, who had made it his mission to bring symphonic music to the American people by forming his own orchestra in 1864 and touring with it each year.
		Thurber was very harshly criticized for the financial collapse of the company but she remained loyal to the end, while many other officers and directors abandoned the corporation.
		Jeannette Thurber noted that some thought that the slow movement of Dvorak’s American symphony was inspired by Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha,” but she asserted that was one of his operatic projects.
	www.maudpowell.org /pages/sig-sample.htm (4044 words)

	Te Deum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thurber, the wife of a multimillionaire wholesale grocer, Thomas was the showpiece for the European musical environment she had envied during her school years in France.
		Thurber’s offer and on September 27, 1892, landed in New York City with his wife, his two eldest children, and a young friend, Josef Jan Kavarik– born in Spillville, Iowa, of Bohemian immigrant parents.
		Thurber planned the “coming-out party” for her new Director at a concert planned for October 12 (later postponed to October 21), 1892, to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ first landing in the New World.
	www.napervillechorus.org /program_notes/tedeum.html (954 words)

	Jeannette Thurber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeanette Thurber (January 29, 1850 - January 2, 1946) is considered by some to have been the first major patron of classical music in America.
		Educated in Paris, Thurber was married to a millionaire grocery wholesaler.
		Thurber died in Bronxville, New York, in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeannette_Thurber (175 words)

	Quad City Musicians News- Antonin Dvorak featured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1891, opportunity knocked again, this time in the form of Jeannette Thurber, the wife of a wealthy grocery wholesaler and a patron of the arts who was trying to establish a national music conservatory in New York.
		Thurber offered Dvorak a salary of $15,000 -- 25 times what he was getting paid at his day job du jour as a professor at the Prague Conservatory.
		Thurber to help her country achieve its own national style of music, Dvorak did something that most native New Yorkers of the day likely wouldn't have thought to do.
	findusat309.com /BTB/dvorak_01.html (939 words)

	Olmstead / Juilliard Chapter 1 (excerpt)
		The National Conservatory of Music in America, founded by Jeannette Thurber in 1885 to encourage an indigenous musical culture, was a special case.
		Thurber appealed to Congress for $200,000 but received the same response that New England Conservatory had gotten when it applied to the state of Massachusetts for aid.
		(Thurber pointedly noted that the government supported the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Military Academy, both private schools.) The contrast between state support of conservatories in Europe and U.S. hostility to public funding for the arts remains the largest single difference between music schools on the two continents.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f99/excerpts/olmstead/chap1.html (532 words)

	Anton Dvorak and The Fight For An American Musical Culture
		Jeannette Thurber's persistence in her project to establish the National Conservatory (begun in 1885, when she was 35 years old) as a federal institution, almost worked.
		And, though Thurber had enlisted the assistance of August Belmont, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt in her original founding of the New York school, only Carnegie ever gave a contribution--$5,000--and the school survived on the fortune of the Thurbers and fundraising, usually of $100 level contributions.
		Thurber and their students were systematically disproving every contention of the emerging ``science'' of eugenics, and racial anthropology.
	members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/dvorak.htm (3252 words)

	Cyrena Jeannette Jones (nee Thurber) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jeannette Jones of Chenoa died suddenly at her home Friday, April 21, 1944, at 2 a.m.
		She was born March 6, 1862, in Rook's Creek, the daughter of Oliver and Anna Potter Thurber.
		When she was 4, her parents moved to Chenoa and the greater part of her life had been spent in that vicinity.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~bryant/obits/Jones_Jeannette.html (170 words)

	Abstract of Dvorak Society Journal Vol 11
		Thurber was, however, keen to renew Dvořák’s services for a further two years.
		Thurber further prevaricated by not making up the outstanding amounts she owed before he left again for the United States.
		Thurber was unable to wipe out her debt to him by the end of his third year in New York.
	www.dvorak-society.org /journal_vol11.html (324 words)

	classical music - andante - the classical music crisis and what to do about it
		He maintained that a nation's highest expression in art, music, and literature was to some degree of function of "race." An autodidact of vast erudition, he turned himself into an incipient ethnomusicologist.
		Jeannette Thurber was the agent of his coming.
		Attracted by Thurber's scholarships for African-Americans, Burleigh had enrolled at the National Conservatory in 1892.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=14027 (2127 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / DVOŘÁK IN AMERICA
		Jeannette M. Thurber, New York society leader and arts patron, had established a National Conservatory of Music of America and had been determined to snare a recognized master to direct it.
		Thurber went straight for the author of the popular Slavonic Dances and the D Minor Symphony, and once she waved her checkbook, Dvořák didn’t require much further persuasion.
		Thurber was not there to greet Dvořák in person; she sent the conservatory’s secretary in her place.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1992/5/1992_5_78.shtml (3553 words)

	Ravinia -
		Thurber had wanted him to write an opera on the subject, and he later tried and failed to finish the work.
		Jeannette Thurber was a remarkably ambitious woman, and she certainly expected great things from Dvorák.
		But it is unlikely that she had in mind a work of such scope, passion and power that its reputation would still be growing 110 years later.
	www.ravinia.org /OneScore/dvorak_beckerman.aspx?&month=3&year=2006 (1349 words)

	ANTONIN DVORAK
		Chief among them were Thurber and three journalists who did her bidding, one for money, another almost surely for love and the third because he wanted to.
		James Creelman, a card-carrying yellow journalist, received handsome sums to publicize Thurber's conservatory, the composer she had brought to direct it and the idea of American music.
		His book is at once a probing portrait of the composer's private world and a fascinating snapshot of late 19th-century America — a country reaching both inward and outward in its quest to forge a national cultural identity, yearning to be free of Europe's shadow but seeking its counsel in finding that freedom.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /dvorak.html (3248 words)

	Exhibitions - The University of Iowa Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In June 1891 Dvorák was invited by Mrs.
		Jeannette Thurber to head the National Conservatory of Music in New York.
		His arrival in New York was timed to coincide with the celebrations commemorating the fourth centenary of the discovery of the United States.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /exhibits/friends/dvorak.html (682 words)

	MSO program notes
		Thurber, the wife of a wealthy New York businessman, had a dream of raising the standards of American art music to equal those of Europe.
		At this time, Dvorák's reputation as a symphonist was surpassed only by that of Brahms, and Thurber resolved to hire him as the director of the Conservatory.
		According to Thurber, the symphony was written at her suggestion--she felt that Dvorák should write a symphony "embodying his experiences and feelings in America." It was an immediate hit with audiences in both America and Europe.
	facstaff.uww.edu /allsenj/MSO/NOTES/0506/1.Sept05.html (2364 words)

	Craig von Buseck
		Jeanette Thurber -- founder of the National Conservatory and a fanatic patron of the arts -- first contacted Antonin Dvorak in early spring of 1891.
		Her husband, Francis Thurber, was owner of a wholesale grocery business with retail outlets throughout the state of New York and beyond.
		Jeanette Thurber also recognized the genius of America's fl musicians, and established the scholarship that Burleigh won in order to attract the greatest musical minds in the African-American community to the Conservation.
	www.vonbuseck.com /lamplighter_chapter17.asp (9038 words)

	Direct Testimony
		Thurber, mailed on June 16, 1873 [sic], to the New York newspaper publishers this article to be published: "National Conservatory of Music in America Intends to Broaden Its Benefits to Those Talented Colored (of a fl complexion) Pupils and Promises That There Will even be colored (of a fl complexion) Teachers.
		Thurber to give them permission so that their famous countryman could contribute with his art.
		Thurber was signed by the Director J. Kralovec and by his Vice-Director V. Vanek.
	homepage.mac.com /rswinter/DirectTestimony/Pages/172.html (2237 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Crossing Old World Angst With New World Music - New York Times
		His book is at once a probing portrait of the composer's private world and a fascinating snapshot of late 19th-century America -- a country reaching both inward and outward in its quest to forge a national cultural identity, yearning to be free of Europe's shadow but seeking its counsel in finding that freedom.
		How else to explain the decision by the great arts patron Jeannette Thurber to bring Dvorak to New York to direct her National Conservatory of Music in 1892?
		Thurber hoped that her distinguished guest would do nothing short of found a new American classical music.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2DB113EF933A25752C0A9659C8B63 (679 words)

	Antonin Dvorak: from Minnesota Public Radio Music
		It is a time of rising pride among the Slav peoples, and like the Slavonic Dances, many of Dvorák's works reflect the spirit of Slavic folk music, and Dvorák's pride in his Czech heritage.
		1891 A wealthy New York woman, Jeannette Thurber, invites Dvorák to come to New York to head her new conservatory.
		Thurber He decides to return to Europe permanently.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/9909_dvorak (895 words)

	Ellington Hits 100
		Jeannette Thurber, the wife of a wealthy New York grocer, to help establish a national conservatory of music of America.
		Its objective was to develop American composers who would follow the example of what Dvorak had done with the Slavonic folk materials of Bohemia and create music from indigenous American sources that would qualify as fine art worthy of being performed in the great concert halls along with the classics in the European canon.
		Thurber's conservatory and later became head of the department of composition at Juilliard from 1924 until his death in 1936.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19990222/murray (802 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Dvorák's New World Inquiry: How a Czech composer helped America find its authentic voice
		But Dvorák and Jeannette Thurber also declared that the National Conservatory was "to be thrown open free of charge to the negro race," as New York Herald writer James Creelman put it (like whites, fls had to audition for entry).
		Still, Dvorák and Thurber's radical proposal opened the school to many fls, among them the singer Harry Burleigh, the grandson of a slave who had bought his own freedom.
		In retrospect, Jeannette Thurber's investment was not such a bad one after all.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:237252 (1558 words)

	Biography of Victor Herbert
		Jeannette Thurber added him to the faculty of her National Conservatory of Music of America during the Fall of 1889.
		This institution was one of the first music conservatories established to take talented and deserving students through every type of musical training through professional expertise.
		Thurber had grand hopes of turning the school into a musical West Point with an additional branch in Washington.
	vherbert.com /vhbio.htm (3505 words)

	Program Notes
		This symphony calls for two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes and English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, and strings.
		Jeannette Thurber was not a woman who easily accepted no for an answer.
		In June 1891, she invited Dvořák to New York to direct the National Conservatory of Music, an establishment she had been nurturing into existence over several years.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/router.asp?callid=117&nodeid=3276 (1729 words)

	Amazon.com: "national conservatory": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His arrival represented a triumph of persistence by the conservatory's founder, Jeannette Thurber.
		Jeannette Thurber had engaged Dvork to make the journey from Prague to New York to lead the National Conservatory of Music.
		Thurber was the wife of a wealthy merchant.13' The very practical son of Bohemian peasants,...
	www.npg.org.uk /betsie/parser.pl/0126/www.amazon.com/phrase/national-conservatory (559 words)

	Direct Testimony
		Jeanette M. Thurber, is provided as good a school as can be found elsewhere.
		Thurber, may not only this new project which you have undertaken be highly successful, but may your institution and the high minded noble cause for which you have so long and so faithfully labored, have unbounded and unprecedented success.
		And may you live to see and enjoy the fruits of your hard and self-sacrificing labors.
	homepage.mac.com /rswinter/DirectTestimony/Pages/68.html (1417 words)

	Composers --- Antonin Leopold Dvarak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Over three months in 1895, Dvořák wrote his Cello Concerto in B minor, which was to become one of his most popular works.
		Thurber about his salary, together with increasing recognition in Europe — he had been made an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna — determined him to return home.
		Dvorak's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street near Perlman Place.
	www.violaheaven.com /dvarak.html (1869 words)

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		Over the course of three months in 1895, Dvořák wrote his Cello Concerto in B minor, which was to become one of his most popular works.
		Thurber about his salary, together with increasing recognition in Europe — he had been made an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna — made him decide to return home.
		Dvořák's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street near Perlman Place.
	www.auburnsymphony.com /explorethemusic_dvorak.htm (2237 words)

	Dvorák notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He traveled extensively throughout Europe, including multiple times to England, in order to conduct his own orchestral pieces or perform (as a pianist) in his own chamber works.
		In June 1891, he was asked to lead the National Conservatory of Music in New York by the institution's founder, Jeannette Thurber.
		Negotations took about a year to complete, and the composer began his position in New York in October 1892.
	www.music.pomona.edu /Orchestra/dvo_9.htm (543 words)

	South Bend Symphony - Program Notes
		He in turn influenced scores of American composers to re-examine their own musical roots and to try to create a truly American musical idiom.
		The arrival in New York City of Dvorák in September 1892 as the Director of the National Conservatory of Music was a triumph of persistence by Jeannette Thurber, the Conservatory's founder and wife of a wealthy wholesale grocer.
		Not only did have a celebrated European composer give credibility to the new school, but Thurber knew that Dvorák was an instinctive democrat, son of a butcher and cultural nationalist.
	www.southbendsymphony.org /pages/masterworks_3.htm (1906 words)

	DePauw University News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Written by the Czech composer, the “New World” Symphony was the musical culmination of Antonin Dvorak's time in the United States from 1892 to 1895.
		Arriving in New York at the request of Jeannette Thurber, president of the National Conservatory of Music in America, Dvorak was asked to help in the creation of a national American style of art music.
		A celebrated advocate of musical nationalism in his own homeland, Dvorak sought to capture and write down what he perceived to be the American sound by turning to its folk music.
	www.depauw.edu /news/index.asp?id=16611 (364 words)

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		After a period of being ignored as serious musicians, these composers set forth a standard of nationalistic music that emphasized Slavic folk music & dances and established Czech music on the world scene.
		In June 1891, after receiving world acclaim for many of his works, Dvorak was offered the post of Director of the National Conservatory of Music in America by Jeannette Thurber.
		Thurber had sought Dvorak primarily in hopes of evolving a new American paradigm for music.
	www.free-college-essays.com /Music/14306-Dvorak.html (1435 words)

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