Bennington College History: Music: 1930s

1932

• Julian H. DeGray piano recital" September 9. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Ellenor Cook "Folk Songs and Dances" October 17. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Mariana Lowell "Discussion of Brahms Piano Quintette F Minor" October 18. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Laura Tappen Safford, Contralto,  Charles Louis Safford, pianist. October 21. Program

• Mariana Lowell "Discussion of Brahms Piano Quintette F Minor" October 25. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Helen Hartness Flanders "The Folk Songs of Vermont" October 31. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Brahms Piano Quintette F Minor concert. November 1. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Little Boston Symphony Orchestra (Williamstown) concert. November 10. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Julian H. DeGray piano recital December 2. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932

• Williams College Glee Club and Chorus. December 14. Evening Meetings 1932-1933 Attendance

1933

• Eunice Morton piano recital. March 6. Evening Meetings 1932-1933

• Julian H. DeGray concert. March 19 Evening Meetings 1932-1933

• Eva Gauthier Song Recital. Mach 27. Program

• Hugo Kortschak, Emmeran Stoeber, Kurt Schindler concert. April 21. Commons Theater. Evening Meetings April - June 1933

• Julian H. DeGray: Bach piano recital. April 25. Commons Theater. Evening Meetings April - June 1933 | Program

• Ellen Edwards Boyd recital. May 12. Program

• Manhattan String Quartet concert. May 15. Commons Theater. Program 

• Julian H. DeGray Modernism in the Arts series, piano recital. May 30 Program 

• Gordon String Quartet concert. October 3. Program

• Kurt Schindler "I. Don Giovanni" September 18. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

• Kurt Schindler "II. Don Giovanni" September 25. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

• Clarita Sanchez (Mrs. Manuel Casseres) concert. October 16. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

• Julian H. DeGray All Chopin piano recital.  October 23. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• Kurt Schindler "Der Freischütz" November 6. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

• Bruce Simonds, piano.  November 16. Program

• Kurt Schindler "Musical Evening" November 20. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

• The Aguilars: Spanish Lute Quartet concert. November 27. Program

• Ninon Vallin, soprano recital. December 6. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• Kurt Schindler "Tannhäuser" December 11. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance

1934

• Paul Stassévitch, Mariana Lowell recital. February 26 Evening Meetings September - October 1934 | Program

• Manhattan String Quartet concert. March 26. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• The Yale Glee Club & Bennington Chorus concert. April 28. Program

• Neebson, Margaret Aue, Rudolph Pittaway recital May 14. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• Red Gate Shadow Puppets. May 21.  Program

• Albert Hirsh piano recital. May 28. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program 

• Mariana Lowell, Margaret Aue, Gregory Tucker trio recital. June 13. Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• Julian H. DeGray All Brahms piano recital. June 26.  Evening Meetings 1933-1934 Attendance | Program

• Don Cossacks Russian Male Chorus concert. October 10. Evening Meetings September - October 1934 | Program

• Julian H. DeGray All Beethoven piano recital. October 19. Common Theater. Program

• Ethel Luening, soprano; Otto Luening, flutist; assisted by Gregory Tucker, pianist. November 13. Common Theater. Program

• Efren Zimbalist, Theodore Seidenberg concert. November 20. Commons Theater. Program

• Carl Sandberg poetry and playing folk songs on guitar. November 23.  Letter | Letter | Letter

• Julian H. DeGray Beethoven piano recital. December 2. Program

• Williams Bennington Joint Chorus in an all Bach Recital. December 15. Program

1935

• Ray Lev, Pianist. March 27. Commons Theater. Program

• The Curtis String Quartet. April 2. Commons Theater. Program 

• Bennington College Chorus. April 14. Second Congregational Church. Program

• Margaret Aue and  Rudolph Pittaway. Sonata Recital. April 23. Evening Meetings

• Mariana Lowell, Margaret Aue, Gregory Tucker concert. May 14. Commons Theater. Program

• Mariana Lowell, Rudolph Pittaway concert. June 18. Commons Theater. Program

• Student Recital. June 19. Evening Meetings

• Julian H. DeGray piano recital. August 21. Program

• Julian H. DeGray piano recital. September 8. Program

• Roth String Quartet. September 24. Common Theater. Program | Evening Meetings

• Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist. October 13. Commons Theater. Program | Evening Meetings

• Leon Barzin, Violist, and Julian DeGray, Pianist. October 29. Commons Theater. Program  | Evening Meetings

• Student Work in Drama and Music. November 5. Evening Meetings

• Lucia Chagnon, Soprano and Edna Willington Smith, Accompanist. November 12. Common Theater. Program | Evening Meetings

• Henry Cowell. "Records of Primitive  and Oriental Music" November 21. Evening Meetings

• Student Work in Music. November 26. Evening Meetings

• Student Work in Music. December 3. Evening Meetings

• Service of Carols by the Chorus of Bennington College, Rudolph Pittaway, Director and Organist. December 15. St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Program

• Mariana Lowell, Margaret Aue, Gregory Tucker recital. December 19. Common Theater. Program | Evening Meetings

1936

• Robert Johnson, baritone, Pauline Morgan, pianist (program) Johnson, Robert; Morgan, Pauline (1936-02-25)

• Egon Petri, Pianist. March 10. Commons Theater. Program

• Julian H. DeGray recital "Battle-horses and Old Chestnuts" April 1. Commons Theater. Art That Pays series memo | Program

• Ethel Luening, soprano, Otto Luening, flute, Gregory Tucker, piano, Robert McBride, oboe, and Piano Gretchen Hutchins, flute (program) That Pays series memo Hutchins, Gretchen; McBride, Robert; Tucker, Gregory; Luening, Otto; Luening, Ethel (1936-04-07) Art

• Mary E. Barnicle and Leadbelly "Leadbelly and his Songs" (1936-04-13) Evening Meetings 

• Student music recital. April 14. Evening Meetings 

• Otto Luening "Art that Pays Lecture Series: Music discussion" April 16. Art That Pays series memo | Summary of discussion by Otto Luening | Art That Pay music summary 

• Margaret Aue, cellist and Rudolph Pittaway, pianist. April 28. Commons Theater. Program

• Williams Glee Club and Bennington Chorus. May 2. Evening Meetings 

• Evening of Student Music. May 12. Commons Theater. Program

• An Evening of Original Compositions and Transcriptions. May 19. Commons Theater. Program

• Gregory Tucker, piano, Robert McBride, clarinet and oboe in A Recital of Contemporary American Music (program) McBride, Robert; Tucker, Gregory (1936-06-09)

• Julian H. DeGray, pianist. June 23. Evening Meetings 

• Music and Drama Workshop. Scenes from: Green Pastures by Marc Connelly, Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, Measure for Measure by Shakespeare. Original compositions played by Esther Williamson. (1936-09-29) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Viola Mitchell, violinist and Julian DeGray, Pianist (program) Mitchell, Viola; DeGray, Julian (1936-10-06). Evening Meetings

• Orrea Pernel, violinist, Gregory Tucker, pianist (program) Evening Meetings Pernel, Orrea; Tucker, Gregory (1936-10-13). 

• Student music. October 20. Evening Meetings

• Leon Theremin "Demonstration Recital on Electro-Musical Instrument" October 19. Evening Meetings

• The Kendroff Vocal Quartet (program) Evening Meetings Denissoff, I.K.; Kasakoff, T. F.; Kaidanoff, K. E.; Kedroff, N. N. (1936-10-27) 

• The Young Artists Group under the direction of the Guenther School of Berlin and Munich Germany (program) Riedel, Margaret; Doenhoff, Marie Luise; Hiller, Martha; Juergens, Gertrud; Walter, Margot; Jahn, Ernst; Killing, Hans Kurt Jakob; Kissling, Karl Adolf; Kruger, Hans; Matthies, Wilhelm; Stopka, Heinz; Weegers, Georg; Keller, Johanna; Vopel, William (1936-11-03)

• Webster Aitken, pianist (program) Evening Meetings Aitken, Webster (1936-11-10)

• Julia Peterkin talk "Negro Spirituals" (1936-11-12) Evening Meetings, February - December

• St. Peter's Episcopal Church Vespers with Bennington College Chorus (program) Pittaway, Rudolph (1936-11-15)

• Mariana Lowell, violinist, Margaret Aue, cellist, Gregory Tucker, pianist (program) Evening Meetings Lowell, Mariana; Aue, Margaret; Tucker, Gregory (1936-11-24)  

• Student music. December 1. Evening Meetings

1937

• Raya Garbousova, Cellist (program) Garbousova, Raya; Toumarkin, Leo (1937-03-16)

• The Phil-Sym Quartet (program) (1937-03-30)

• Williams College Glee Club and Bennington College Chorus (program) (1937-04-17)

• Louise Arnoux, Diseuse, Imelda Georges, Accompanist (program) Arnoux, Louise; Georges, Imelda (1937-04-20)

• Student Music (program) Coffin, Barbara; Nelson, Jessie Ann; Hall, Vera; Ketchum, Elizabeth; Welch, Carol; Hutchins, Jane; McBride, Robert; Fox, Constance (1937-05-04)

• Ethel Luening, soprano, Otto Luening, Flutist, Gregory Tucker, Piano (program)  Luening, Ethel; Luening, Otto; Tucker, Gregory (1937-05-11)

• A Program of Contemporary Music (program) Pittaway, Rudolph; McBride, Robert; Aue, Margaret; Tucker, Gregory (1937-05-18)

• Esther Williamson, pianist, Margaret Aue, violoncellist (program) Williamson, Esther; Aue, Margaret (1937-05-27)

• Jane Hutchins, violinist, Julian DeGray, pianist, Cecelia Drinker, violinist, Caroline Welch, violinist, Margaret Aue, violoncellist (program) Hutchins, Jane; DeGray, Julian; Drinker, Cecelia; Welch, Caroline; Aue, Margaret (1937-06-07)

• Alix Young Maruchess, viola and viola d'amore, Earle G. Voorhies, piano (program)  Maruchess, Alix Young; Voorhies, Earle G. (1937-09-21)

• Bennington College Presents Harald Kreutzberg Dance Recital, Friedrich Wilckens at the piano (Program) Kreutzberg, Harald (1937-10-21)

• Orrea Pernel, violin and Brooks Smith, piano (program) (1937-11-02)

• Music Faculty Concert (program) Luening, Ethel; Luening, Otto; Lowell, Mariana; Lavack, Martha; Johnson, Henry; Chassell, J.; DeGray, Julian; Taylor, Rosmond; Aue, Margaret; Lorenz, Yolanda (1937-11-16)

• Candle-Lit Service of Music by Bennington CollegeFaculty and Students (program) DeGray, Julian; Luening, Otto; Coffin, Barbara; Johnson, Henry; Aue, Margaret (1937-11-21)

• Mariana Lowell, violinist Margaret Aue, 'cellist Gregory Tucker, pianist (program) Lowell, Mariana; Aue, Margaret; Tucker, Gregory (1937-12-07)

• German Songs (program) Lorenz, Yolanda (1937-12-08)

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: The Contrast. Fergusson, Francis, director; Tyler, Royall, playwright; Elliott, Nancy, costume designer; Hill, Martha, choreography; Wile, Mildred, choreography; Triest, Robert, musical arrangement; Lauterer, Arch, set designer (1937-12-15) program

1938

• Rene Le Roy, flute Gregory Tucker, piano (program) Le Roy, Rene; Tucker, Gregory (1938-03-01)

• Bennington College presents Paul Hindemith, composer, viola, and viola d'amour with Jesus Sanroma at piano (program) Hindemith, Paul; Sanroma, Jesus (1938-03-15)

• Otto Luening "The Art Series" March. Schedule | Talk VII (p. 64-73)

• The 32 Beethoven Pianoforte Sonatas presented by Julian DeGray (program) DeGray, Julian (1938-04-16)

• Music Faculty Concert (program) Buhler, Carlos; Tucker, Gregory; Aue, Margaret; Luening, Ethel; Furman, Arlie; Luening, Otto (1938-04-19)

• The Yale Glee Club and the Bennington College Chrous in a Joint Recital (program) Luening, Otto; Bartholomew, Marshall (1938-05-06)

• Margaret Aue, cellist, Gregory Tucker, piano (program) Aue, Margaret; Tucker, Gregory (1938-05-10)

• Bennington College present the Albany Orchestra, Margaret Aue, cellist, Gregory Tucker, pianist, Barbara Coffin, soprano, Otto Luening and Henry Johnson, guest conductors (program) Aue, Margaret; Tucker, Gregory; Coffin, Barbara; Luening, Otto; Johnson, Henry; Windingstad, Ole (1938-05-24)

• Bennington College Presents Barbara Coffin and Reba Marcus (program) Coffin, Barbara; Marcus, Reba; Hall, Vera; Lorenz, Yolanda; Luening, Otto (1938-06-07)

• Concert Performance of Dido and Aeneas: An Opera  Tate, Nahum; Boepple, Paul; Levy, Ernst; Matthen, Paul; Pickells, Sally; Romsland, Anne-Sophie; Pattison, Nina; West, Fay; Treichler, Ann; Kaminski, Janina; Parker, Suzanne; Pernel, Orrea; Hanks, Lucien; Hanks, Jane; Finckel, George; Brockway, Joan; Walker, Jane; Tyler, Martha; Silverman, Corrine; Robbins, Doris Lee; Pollard, Susan; Lyons, Ruth; Ladd, Anne; Johnson, Elizabeth; Ireland, Marcia; Garland, Susan; Diamond, Carol (1938-07-02)

• Ralph Kirkpatrick, Harpsichordist, assisted by Ethel Luening, soprano, Otto Luening, flutist (program) Kirkpatrick, Ralph; Luening, Ethel; Luening, Otto (1938-09-13)

• The Walden String Quartet Schmitt, Homer; Goodman, Bernard; Collins, LeRoy; Swenson, Robert (1938-09-20)

• Music Faculty Concert (program) Lowell, Mariana; Aue, Margaret; Miller, Hope; Luening, Otto; DeGray, Julian; Taylor, Rosamund; Buhler, Carlos (1938-10-25)

• Bennington College presents Reba Marcus with Vera Hall at the piano (program) Marcus, Reba; Hall, Vera (1939-11-01)

• Student Music Program (progam) Warner, Marian; Peloubet, Sydney; Nelson, Jay; Cummings, Helen; Ellis, Elizabeth; Fox, Constance; Drinker, Cecilia; Welch, Carol; Aue, Margaret; Rowley, Alice; Schoepperle, Lydia; Arnold, Phoebe; Luening, Otto (1938-11-08)

• Composition by Harriet Stern (program) Stern, Harriet; Welch, Carol; Nelson, Jay; Drinker, Cecilia; Aue, Margaret; Fox, Constance; Ellis, Elizabeth; Luening, Otto (1938-11-29)

• Student Concert (program) Luening, Otto; Perrotta, Isabella; Nelson, Jay; Drinker, Cecilia; Aue, Margaret; Hall, Vera; Ives, Ruth; Carter, Sara (1938-11-29)

• Bennington College Presents Representative Modern American Poetry Set to Music by Representative Contemporary Composers (program) Osgood, Catherine; Luening, Ethel; Lorenz, Yolanda; Ives, Ruth; Jones, Polly; Warner, Marion; Ellis, Elizabeth; Wallner, Doris (1938-12-04)

• Harold Bauer; pianist (program) Bauer, Harold (1938-12-06)

• Bennington College Student Music Program at Smith College Perrotta, Isabella; Ellis, Elizabeth; Ives, Ruth; Welch, Carol; Fox, Constance; Drinker, Cecilia; Green, Alison; Coffin, Dorothy; Arnold, Phoebe; Clement, Marion; Erskine, Martha; Froelicher, Dorothy; Mason, Helena; Paris, Judy; Rowley, Alice (1938-12-13)

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: Noah. Obey, Andre, playwright; Wilmut, Arthur, translator; Fergusson, Francis, director; Lauterer, Arch, set design; Bottomly, Helen, costumes; Hill, Martha, choreography; Nelson, Jay, music composition and arrangement (Bennington College, 1938-12-14) program

1939

• Bennington College Presents Julian DeGray, pianist (program) DeGray, Julian (1939-03-07)

• The Intercollegiate Music Guild of America Festival of Music (program) Ellis, Elizabeth; Drinker, Cecelia; Welch, Carol; Green, Alison; Wallner, Mimi; Ives, Ruth; Nelson, Jay; Perrotta, Isabella; Cummings, Helen; Perrine, Mary; Green, Alison; Luening, Otto (1939-03-10)

• Bennington College Presents Povla Frijsh accompanied by Celius Dougherty (program) Dougherty, Celius; Frijsh, Povla (1939-03-21)

• Student Music (program) Perrotta, Isabella; Hall, Vera; Drinker, Cecilia; Welch, Carol; Nelson, Jay; Cummings, Helen; Erskine, Martha; Haines, Carol; Luening, Otto (1939-04-04)

• Bennington College Presents Smith College Student Music (program) Intercollegiate Music Guild (1939-05-09)

• Senior Projects Concert (program) Lorenz, Yolanda; Drinker, Cecilia; Fox, Constance; Ives, Ruth; Rowley, Alice; Welch, Carol; DeGray, Julian (1939-05-16)

• Bennington College Presents Nott Terrace High School A Capella Choir (program) Wheeler, Rufus (1939-05-16)

• Symphony Concert by the Albany Federal Orchestra of the Federal Music Project Works Progress Administration with senior soloists of the Music Division of Bennington College (program) Ives, Ruth; Fox, Constance; Welch, Carol; Drinker, Cecilia (1939-05-29)

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: The Intellectual Ladies with Ballet Interludes: Pantalone's Daughters  Fergusson, Francis, director; Lauterer, Arch, set design; Hill, Martha, choreographer; Luening, Otto, musical director; Fowlie, Wallace, translator; Lauterer, Arch, set design (Bennington College, 1939-06-07) program 

• Roaring Branch Choral Society (1939-09-10)

• Gunnar Johansen concert (program) Johansen, Gunnar (1939-09-12)

• Music Faculty Concert (program) Westra, Dorothy; Furman, Arlie; Buhler, Carlos; Tucker, Gregory; McBride, Robert; Aue, Margaret (1939-10-03)

• Hope Miller and Carlos Buhler in a Joint Recital (program) Miller, Hope; Buhler, Carlos (1939-10-31)

• Student Concert (program) Hall, Vera; Peloubet, Sydney; Perrotta, Isabella; Schwab, Alice; Williams, Zoe; McBride, Robert; Schoepperle, Lydia; Cummings, Helen; Haines, Carol; Wallner, Mimi; Johnson, Henry (1939-11-07)

• Student Concert (program) Peloubet, Sydney; Perrotta, Isabella; Cummings, Helen; Nelson, Jay; Schoepperle, Lydia; Arnold, Phoebe; Leavitt, Alice; Voorhees, Kathrina; Winmill, Josephine; Johnson, Henry; Erskine, Martha (1939-12-05)

• John Kouwenhoven and Robert McBride "History of Recorded Dance Music" lecture (1939-12-09)

• Arlie Furman and Julian DeGray recital (1939-12-17)