New York Chamber Music Society scores

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id: 4501
origination: New York Chamber Music Society
date statement: ca. 1900-ca. 1932
key date: 1900
identifier (local_mss): 20263
org unit: Music Division
call number: JPB 95-7
b-number: b15604438
total components: 89
total series: 0
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created: 2013-04-01 15:05:03 UTC
updated: 2026-01-20 20:37:07 UTC
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physdesc: {"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"0.875 linear ft. (7 boxes)"}
unitid: {"value"=>"JPB 95-7", "type"=>"local_call"}

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unittitle: {"value"=>"New York Chamber Music Society scores"}
repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library, Music Division"}
abstract: {"value"=>"The New York Chamber Music Society Scores consist of chamber music scores and parts of infrequently-heard repertoire."}
prefercite: {"value"=>"<p>The New York Chamber Music Society Scores, JPB 95-7, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
bioghist: {"value"=>"<p>Carolyn Harding Beebe (she later spelled her first name as Caroline) was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Silas Edwin and Helen Tift Beebe, sometime around 1874. She showed musical interest at an early age and began formal instruction when she was 12 with her aunt, Charlotte Beebe. Carolyn continued her musical studies in Berlin where she studied with Joseph Mosenthal, Paul Tidden, and Moritz Moszkowski. She made her debut at the Singakademie, Berlin, in 1903.</p> <p>Beebe concertized extensively in Europe, and especially in the United States and Canada, where she played as a soloist in more than 300 cities. She spent the summer of 1912 studying with Harold Bauer in Vevey and Paris. At that time her manager was Loudon Charlton. Beebe taught piano at the Institute of Musical Art (the precursor of the Juilliard School of Music) from its founding in 1905 until 1919.</p> <p>Though she appears to have had a reasonable career as a solo pianist (including a recital at White House for President Woodrow Wilson), Beebe preferred to play chamber music. For a while she performed with Edouard Dethier, and then with Georges Longy, first oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1913, Longy decided not to continue, so Beebe joined forced with Gustave Langenus, clarinetist of the Barrère Ensemble and of the New York Symphony Orchestra. It was out of this collaboration that the New York Chamber Music Society was conceived in 1914. Its purpose was to bring attention to chamber music by placing an emphasis the programming of unusual and infrequently-heard works. The New York Chamber Music Society debuted on December 17, 1916, at Aeolian Hall in New York City. They continued to have a series of several concerts per year at Aeolian Hall.</p> <p>In 1924 the Society introduced a new series, \"Sunday Salons at the Plaza,\" which featured music in an area of the Plaza Hotel. The Society appears to have ceased its activities in the late 1930s.</p> <p>Caroline Beebe was married Dr. Henry H. Whitehouse, a prominent dermatologist. The Beebe family maintained a home in Mystic, Connecticut, where Beebe often spent her summers.</p> <p>Caroline Beebe Whitehouse died on September 23, 1950, aged 76.</p>"}
arrangement: {"value"=>"<p>Works are arranged alphabetically by author. Within each author, works are arranged alphabetically by title.</p> <p>Works in folders 77-85 are oversize. They have been integrated alphabetically into this finding aid.</p>"}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"<p>The New York Chamber Music Society Scores were a gift from the estate of Caroline Beebe Whitehouse.</p>"}
userestrict: {"value"=>"<p>For permission to copy or publish please contact the Music Division.</p>"}
unitdate: {"value"=>"ca. 1900-ca. 1932", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1900/1932"}
date_inclusive_start: 1900
date_inclusive_end: 1932
note: {"value"=>"<p>Printed and manuscript music</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Contains music that was used by the New York Chamber Music Society in their concerts</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Composers represented by 5 or more items include Andrʹe Caplet, Theodore Dubois, Charles Maduro, Jacques Pillois, Helen M. Snyder, and Lamar Stringfield</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>The New York Chamber Music Society was founded in 1914 by the pianist Carolyn Beebe (later Caroline Beebe Whitehead). For the first 10 years the society was heard in Aeolian Hall. In 1924 a series of concerts, the Sunday Salons, were established at the Plaza Hotel. The Sunday Salons lasted at least through 1937. Whitehead died in 1950, age 76</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Finding aid in repository (filed under: New York Chamber Music Society)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
keydate: 1900
langmaterial: {"value"=>"English"}
processinfo: {"value"=>"<p>Processed by Dorinda Gay; machine-readable finding aid created by Robert Kosovsky.</p>"}
date_start: 1900
date_end: 1932
origination: {"type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator", "value"=>"New York Chamber Music Society"}

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