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The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance ... conductors, and Peabody alumni, the conservatory, concerts, lecture series ...
Lucien Southard (c. 1827 in Sharon, Vermont – 1881 in Augusta, Georgia) was an American conductor, who directed concerts at the Peabody Institute following the tenure of James Monroe Deems. Southard's reign in control of the Institute was not entirely positive, a situation which Southard blamed on the lack of a "proper musical atmosphere" in ...
Baltimore's most famous institute of higher music education is the Peabody Institute's Conservatory of Music, founded in 1857 though instruction did not begin until 1868. The original grant from George Peabody funded an Academy of Music, which became the Conservatory in 1872. Lucien Southard was the first director of the Conservatory.
Though founded in 1857, the Peabody Institute did not hold an orchestral concert until after the Civil War, when James Monroe Deems directed a concert; Deems was a musician and composer, known for Nebuchadnezzar, one of the first American oratorios.
Formed in 1866, [1] the Peabody Orchestra, was the first professional orchestra in the city of Baltimore. [2] Based at the Peabody Conservatory , its leaders included Lucien Southard , [ 3 ] Asger Hamerik [ 4 ] and James Monroe Deems . [ 5 ]
Michael Nathaniel Hersch (born June 25, 1971) is an American composer and pianist.He currently serves as faculty at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed his own studies in music composition.
John C. Walker, more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. He is also a former president of the American Guild of Organists, elected in May 2014 to a two-year term of the 16,000-member organization.
Elliott Washington Galkin (1921 - May 25, 1990) was an American music instructor, critic and conductor. He was the music critic of The Baltimore Sun from 1962 to 1977 and the director of the Peabody Institute from 1977 to 1982.