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[…] was conducted in Cambridge by Theodore Thomas, a pioneering American conductor and violinist. He had moved to America in 1849 from his native Germany and played in the orchestra of Jullien, whom we met last month in connection to Bristow and Philadelphia’s William Henry Fry. In Fry’s opera orchestra was another German, trying to make a living with his Dresden friends. They called themselves the Saxonia Band and had left Germany, yes, in 1848. Hermann Kotzschmar was a composer and organist who eventually set up shop in a small New England city. A local businessman and amateur musician, Cyrus Curtis, housed him his first year. The family adored Kotzschmar so much that they named their first son Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. That son would earn a publishing fortune in the industry’s center of Philadelphia. He helped the new Philadelphia Orchestra, arising from a Germania Orchestra (founded, indeed, in 1848) to […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-08-24 18:48:20
The celebration honoring the widely renowned Kotzschmar Memorial Organ at Merrill Auditorium in the City Hall of Portland, ME, concluded in grand fashion on Wednesday, August 22nd, precisely 100 years after the instrument’s inauguration. It was also the last time the organ will be heard for approximately two years as it is about to undergo a $2.5 million restoration by Foley-Baker, Inc. of Tolland, CT. The City of Portland has already appropriated $1.5 million and Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ (FOKO) has raised the balance. Hermann Kotzschmar, born in 1829 in Finsterwalde, Germany, emigrated to the U.S. at age 19. While in Boston, Kotzschmar met Cyrus Libby Curtis, an amateur musician from Portland, who suggested he move there to find work. Kotzschmar arrived in Portland in July 1849 and lived with the Curtis family for his first year there. In June 1850, Curtis’s first son was born and named Cyrus Hermann […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-08-23 19:42:23
When A Community Values Music: Portland’s Organ
Merrill Auditorium stage set for silent film and organ (Richard Bunbury photo) Portland, Maine’s Merrill Auditorium organ is not only surviving, but also thriving. Just as symphony orchestras and bigger-budget arts organizations have been struggling in this economy, it is interesting to look at what makes a successful arts enterprise, especially one that is somewhat outside of the mainstream. At its center there must be something that is worth valuing, and of course, leadership and community efforts. On August 17th, the Friends of the Kotzschmar kicked off a five-day celebration of the centennial of the storied organ in Portland’s City Hall. (BMINT’s background article on the festival is (here ). The festivities included performances, lectures, master classes, and even a windchest tour. Organists from around the state shared the stage with a number of big-name performers. It all ended Wednesday evening with a festival concert that included Peter Richard Conte, […]
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