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The Juilliard School Library. (Notes for Notes).(acquires Kneisel Hall Archives)(Brief Article)
The Juilliard School Library (Jane Gottlieb, Associate Vice President for Library and Information Resources) has acquired the Kneisel Hall Archives. Founded in 1902 in Blue Hill, Maine, by violinist Franz Kneisel, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival has trained hundreds of gifted musicians in the art of chamber music performance. Kneisel (1865-1926) emigrated to the United States in 1885 at the invitation of Wilhelm Gericke to assume the position of concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). That same year he founded the Kneisel Quartet, which was initially comprised of the principal chair string players of the BSO. In 1905, Kneisel and his fellow quartet members joined the faculty of the Institute of Musical Art, Juilliard's predecessor institution.
The Kneisel Hall Archives documents the history of the festival since its founding. The collection also includes Franz Kneisel's personal papers and memorabilia, as well as programs and ...
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- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Christensen, Kenneth February 1, 2008 700+ words
...In Blue Hill, Maine, is the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Here...player can participate in the Kneisel Hall Adult Chamber Music Institute...assistants who spend the summer at Kneisel Hall and are the chamber artists of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff July 7, 1995 700+ words
...20 years violinist Roman Totenberg has been a benevolent presiding spirit at the Kneisel Hall chamber music school and festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Kneisel Hall is honoring Totenberg for his work there, and for the seven decades of his career...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DIANA BOYLE September 3, 1994 700+ words
...recording studio (where he made over 200 records) and, in later years, to teaching. He ran a chamber music summer school at Kneisel Hall, in Blue Hill, Maine, from the early 1950s until just two years ago. He opened the ears of many students to the possibility...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joseph McLellan July 17, 1988 700+ words
...a busy schedule. He also teaches at America's two most prestigious music schools, Curtis and Juilliard, directs the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hills, Maine, and pursues a busy concert career. Last week, as he settled in for his first...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Powers, Keith June 20, 2003 700+ words
...Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Juilliard orchestra, but may wish to try a solo career. This summer, he travels to Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, for intensive chamber music workshops with Totenberg and others. "I want to be a musician, but...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Powers, Keith October 18, 2003 700+ words
...summers she's been to intensive music camps; this summer she went to two, first at Amelia Island in Florida, then at Kneisel Hall in Maine. "Sometimes we played 10 hours a day," she says. "The summer went by pretty fast." Karina grew up in the...
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- Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME July 18, 2009 700+ words
BANGOR - The fourth annual Summer Evening Musicale featuring young artists from Kneisel Hall will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, July 27, at All Souls Congregational Church, 10 Broadway. The program will include piano...
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- Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME EMILY BURNHAM; OF THE NEW STAFF November 6, 2009 700+ words
...Pennsylvania native has a generations-long connection to Maine, thanks to his family's longtime involvement with the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill. When he takes the podium at this Sunday's BSO concert at the Collins Center for the...