{"id":20994,"date":"2024-10-21T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:27:09","slug":"oct21-oct27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/2024\/10\/oct21-oct27\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 21st-27th: Inter-Faith Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729540837318{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]Published on Oct 21st, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

Back to This Week at Eastman<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1726852979961{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”1960: Dedication of the Howard Hanson Inter-Faith Chapel” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1729540902428{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;border-color: #dddddd !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729605333395{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Chapels on college and university campuses are a well-established presence\u2014an ancient one in Europe while a newer one in North America\u2014and boasting many striking examples of architecture, piety, and community.\u00a0 Here in the U.S.A., two especially noteworthy milestones are Battell Chapel (built in 1874-75) at Yale University and the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (built in 1928) at the University of Chicago, each serving not only as a distinctive place of worship, but also as an established concert venue. (Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is particularly favored by organists for its E. M. Skinner organ, which can frequently be heard on commercial recordings and in radio broadcasts.)\u00a0 Here in Rochester, one prominent collegiate chapel is the Hermance Family Chapel of St. Basil the Great at St. John Fisher University, closely associated with that institution\u2019s own faith tradition, and providing daily opportunities for corporate worship.\u00a0 The chapel of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School is an architectural jewel that is frequently rented out as a private wedding venue.\u00a0 At the University of Rochester, the Interfaith Chapel overlooking the Genesee River offers the U of R community a site for corporate worship, private meditation and reflection, and community building.\u00a0 The Interfaith Chapel provides a spiritual home for students of no fewer than twelve traditions, including Hindu, Muslim, Cru, and Pagan, in addition to the traditional Judeo-Christian traditions.\u00a0 Around the Eastman School of Music, what hasn\u2019t been well remembered is that there was once an inter-faith chapel set aside for Eastman students.\u00a0 Sixty-four years ago this week, on the afternoon of Sunday, October 23rd<\/sup>, 1960, the Howard Hanson Inter-Faith Chapel was dedicated for use by the Eastman School community, with the spiritual needs of students singled out as the chapel\u2019s mission.\u00a0 Situated on the second floor of the Cutler Union building, the chapel remained in use for over two decades.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”15″ css=”.vc_custom_1729611957231{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728062726600{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”20996″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729605018430{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1729605152975{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”20998″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729605197639{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729614032402{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Professor Morris Pierce of the UR\u2019s Department of History has done extensive research on the University\u2019s facilities and buildings; his webpage<\/a> documenting Cutler Union is informing.\u00a0 The Eastman School acquired Cutler Union, set on spaceious grounds on University Avenue, in 1955 and thereafter maintained it for several purposes, in particular as a performance venue and a gathering place.\u00a0 In addition, several people had offices there, including Dr. Howard Hanson, who upon his 1964 retirement as ESM Director was assigned an office on the second floor of Cutler Union, from which he directed the newly founded Institute for American Music. As late as 1990, Eastman students were still performing at Cutler Union, where there were two dedicated performance spaces, those being an auditorium and a parlor. What was previously the building\u2019s auditorium today houses the ballroom.\u00a0 Recent postings by Eastman alumni on Facebook have confirmed the significant place that Cutler Union held in their lives as students, both academically and socially.[1]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> Over the years, however, the costs to the Eastman School of maintaining Cutler Union rose steadily, and in 1981, a space-sharing arrangement between the Eastman School and the Memorial Art Gallery was enacted.[2]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> In time, the entire premises of Cutler Union were absorbed by the Memorial Art Gallery.\u00a0 Today, what was once the west entrance to Cutler Union is an interior door at the east end of the Vanden Brul Pavilion that connects Cutler Union with MAG. \u00a0Displayed here are photos of Cutler Union as it appeared in the early 1960s, together with several recent shots.\u00a0 In 1960, the Howard Hanson Inter-Faith Chapel was created out of a space on Cutler Union\u2019s second floor, suitably appointed with distinctive windows, an altar, and a screen that served to partition the space from the corridor beyond.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1726852979961{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”15″ css=”.vc_custom_1729611968529{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728062726600{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21028″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729611419151{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21029″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729611734417{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Photos of Cutler Union as it appeared in the early 1960s<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1729612153849{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_images_carousel images=”21005,21006,21007″ img_size=”medium” autoplay=”yes” wrap=”yes” css=””][vc_column_text css=””] \u25ba The exterior of Cutler Union as it appeared on October 18, 2024.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”52px”][vc_images_carousel images=”21003,21004″ img_size=”medium” speed=”6000″ autoplay=”yes” wrap=”yes” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]\u25ba Formerly the west entrance to Cutler Union, today this door is an interior door at the east end of the Vanden Brul Pavailion connecting Cutler Union with the Memorial Art Gallery. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729614082843{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Eastman School Historian Professor Emeritus Vincent Lenti has confirmed that there had been definite interest on the part of Eastman students in the founding of a chapel.[3]<\/a><\/sup> \u00a0What eventually transpired was that in 1958, a committee was formed under the direction of Charles F. Hutchison[4]<\/a><\/sup> for purposes of fundraising for a chapel.\u00a0 Alumni and other interested individuals from across the nation responded favorably and substantively.\u00a0 Dedication of the new chapel was scheduled for the fall of 1960; the dedication ceremony would be by invitation due to the limited seating available.[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 The chapel\u2019s seating capacity was 50, and for the ceremony, additional chairs were added spreading out into the corridor.\u00a0 No printed program from the dedication ceremony is extant at the Sibley Music Library, but the order of service was later published (displayed here)[6]<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0 The music at the ceremony was performed by the Eastman Trombone Choir, directed by Professor Emory Remington, and the Eastman Polyphonic Choir, directed by Professor M. Alfred Bichsel.\u00a0 Significantly, the music included two sacred anthems composed by Hanson himself.\u00a0 The pastoral participants in the ceremony were an inter-faith group: a Jewish rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest, and a Presbyterian minister.\u00a0 The lector at the ceremony was Mr. Vincent Lenti, BM \u201960 and at that time a first-year graduate student.\u00a0 Significantly, several special gifts were rendered by way of appointing the chapel with essential items.\u00a0 A photograph of four Eastman students surveying the chapel\u2019s altar was published in the Rochester press, underscoring the student-focused purpose of the chapel (displayed here).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1729612186105{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_images_carousel images=”21014,21015,21016″ img_size=”320×430″ css=””][vc_column_text css=””]\u25baThe program for the dedication ceremony was published in 1963 as part of a profile of the Eastman School of music, edited by faculty member Charles Riker.
\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729614117506{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The dedication ceremony, roughly one half-hour in duration, was recorded and can be heard today. [7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 The aural quality is somewhat uneven; several portions of the speaking are faint, likely the result of the microphone\u2019s placement. The performances by the Eastman Trombone Choir and the Eastman Polyphonic Choir are, in a word, superlative. \u00a0To me, the most striking aspect of the recording is the statement delivered by Dr. Hanson himself; I think it worthwhile to quote his statement in its entirety:<\/p>\n

My wife has told me that I have made so many speeches for so many years that she felt that if, in the middle of the night, someone were to suddenly get up and say, \u201cI now present to you the Director of the Eastman School, Howard Hanson,\u201d that I would get up in the middle of the night and make a [\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 indiscernible<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ] speech on any subject.\u00a0 I must say that at this occasion, I have none.\u00a0 You have demolished me completely.<\/p>\n

I have had many [ indiscernible<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ]\u00a0 and I have been honored many times, much above my deserts, but certainly I have never been honored as I am today, and certainly never have I been so completely unworthy of such an honor.<\/p>\n

I can only say that when these things happen in the lives of people, it is one of the things that makes life itself worth living.\u00a0 It gives you a feeling of tremendous humility\u00a0 [\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 indiscernible<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ].\u00a0 To all those wonderful people who have made this possible, I would like to extend my most humble thanks.\u00a0 For the Eastman School, where this chapel will serve thousands of gifted young people from all over our country, and indeed from all over the world, I express my thanks\u00a0 [\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 indiscernible<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ].\u00a0 I know that I shall never be quite the same after this ceremony.\u00a0 And I know that those who come from every creed, faith, and color who meditate here will find in this beautiful chapel a direct means of communication with the Lord [\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 indiscernible<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ].<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1726852979961{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”5″ css=”.vc_custom_1728069352084{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728062726600{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21026″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729610625831{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1729605152975{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21027″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729612389131{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729614140474{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Throughout his long career, Howard Hanson had been an invited speaker on many, many, many occasions, usually speaking on matters associated with music education, arts administration, the value of the arts in an age of science, standards in musical performance and programming, as well as his perennial cause, American music and the American composer.\u00a0 His annual Convocation addresses at the Eastman School are remarkable instances of inspirational speaking; indeed, they read almost like homilies or sermons, owing to his numerous references to the Deity.[8]<\/a><\/sup> \u00a0(Hanson\u2019s God was a Christian God; Hanson himself was a Protestant believer.)\u00a0 Nevertheless, his remarks at Cutler Union on October 23rd<\/sup>, 1960 must surely rank as his most personal public utterance ever. \u00a0\u00a0Hanson was a decidedly public man, living out his musical-administrative life in the public eye and seeming to relish his public role, but such unscripted and personal remarks as these were decidedly not his custom.\u00a0 On the tape one can hear him pause numerous times, as though he were searching his words, speaking extemporaneously, and in a voice was laden with emotion. Indeed, several words were delivered with full emphasis, most particularly the word demolished. \u00a0<\/em>In Howard Hanson\u2019s long public life, this occasion\u2014the dedication of a chapel in his honor\u2014was exceptional, but might also be considered fitting, given his own religious aspirations and the associations that he perceived between music and faith.<\/p>\n

Professor Lenti has confirmed that, as the years passed, the chapel became a favored site for private weddings.\u00a0 When Cutler Union was absorbed by the Memorial Art Gallery, the chapel space on the second floor was repurposed.\u00a0 Through the courtesy of UR colleagues at the Memorial Art Gallery led by Barbara Kintzel, I had the opportunity on October 19th, 2024 for a private tour of the second floor of Cutler Union.\u00a0 The greater part of the former chapel space is now a conference room, and the area that had been the chancel (with the altar) is now given over to administrative offices.\u00a0 As a reminder of the chapel that once graced the second floor of Cutler Union, the name Howard Hanson Chapel<\/strong> still remains above the door to what is now the conference room (photos displayed here).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1726852979961{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”5″ css=”.vc_custom_1728069352084{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728062726600{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21021″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729610130383{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1729605152975{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”21022″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1729610161416{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729610324237{margin-top: -5px !important;margin-right: -25px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: -25px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]<\/p>\n

In photos taken on October 18, 2024, Howard Hanson\u2019s name above the door is still present.\u00a0 Today a conference room occupies most of what had been the chapel space. <\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1729000374562{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729614281556{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]There were many things going on in Howard Hanson\u2019s life in the fall of 1960, both in his day job and in his extra-curricular pursuits.\u00a0 Earlier in 1960 his book The Harmonic Materials of Modern Music\u00a0 <\/em>(Appleton-Century Crofts) had been published; his guest appearances away from Rochester would include, that same October, a conducting engagement at a young people\u2019s American music festival in Los Angeles; and during the heated Kennedy-Nixon general election campaign that fall, Hanson was busy with political activity as a prominent member of a group of educators calling themselves Scholars for Nixon. Still further, his Eastman Philharmonia, which he had founded two years earlier, was flourishing to acclaim, even to attracting Federal attention.[9]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> Amidst all of this, he was able to pause one Sunday afternoon for the dedication in his honor of a chapel for Eastman students.<\/p>\n

Within several days of the chapel\u2019s dedication ceremony, a follow-up editorial appeared in the Rochester press that expressed a distinctly lofty (but no less sincere for that) sentiment associated with the new chapel:<\/p>\n

Let those who see prejudice at work in the religious life of this nation give a thought to the ceremony of dedication at the Howard Hanson Chapel in Cutler Union recently.\u00a0 There, in a quiet atmosphere that was like a healing balm in the swirl of world events, a group of friendly persons of various creeds assembled to dedicate this chapel as a place of meditation and devotion for all.<\/p>\n

Those present had come to pay honor to Dr. Hanson whose life has symbolized the power of music as a harmonizing spiritual force. They were also testifying to the non-denominationalism of the human spirit. They were testifying to the oneness of the human aspiration that lies behind all religious faith.<\/p>\n

On this common ground, where all can meet, there the name of Dr. Hanson is honored with special fitness. Freely respecting differences that exist, this chapel is none the less a living object lesson in unity.\u00a0 Persons of all faith voluntarily contributed to make it possible.\u00a0 One likes to feel that it more truly expresses the American religious way of life than the discords which sometimes seem so loud.[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

While the name over the chapel was Hanson\u2019s, and the dedication ceremony had placed Hanson squarely at the center of attention, the chapel\u2019s purpose was to serve the spiritual needs of Eastman School students.\u00a0 In the years immediately following the chapel\u2019s dedication, the Howard Hanson Inter-Faith Chapel was annually noted in the Eastman School\u2019s annual catalogue within the descriptions of school facilities.\u00a0 While not well remembered today, the story of the chapel forms one more chapter in the history of the Eastman School.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1658327150379{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1726852979961{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”10″][vc_column_inner][vc_separator color=”black” css=””][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729610989681{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][1]<\/a> \u00a0The Facebook group \u201cYou Know You Went to Eastman When\u2026\u201d has been the forum for a lively set of recollections beginning on October 17th, 2024.\u00a0 Cutler Union became the site for the periodic Beer Blasts, the annual Boo Blast (held on Halloween), degree recitals, operatic productions, and much else.\u00a0 One alumna shared the noteworthy endeavor of having climbed the ladder to the top of the Cutler Union spire.\u00a0 I thank my Sibley Music Library colleague Andrea Schuler for introducing me to this Facebook group.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> A letter from UR President Robert Sproull (June 2, 1981) clarified the arrangement. The change had become necessary not only because of the considerable operating costs, but also owing to the demonstrable need for upgrades and renovations. Eastman School of Music Archives, Director\u2019s Office, accession no. 991.1.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> \u00a0Personal communication from Vincent Lenti to David Peter Coppen on October 16th, 2024. In his capacity of president of the men\u2019s dorm, Mr. Lenti had been involved in a student effort to get a chapel established in the dorm itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0 Mr. Hutchison, who died in 1974, requires no introduction to the U of R community.\u00a0 A longtime associate of George Eastman, he was one of the University\u2019s most generous benefactors.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a>\u00a0 Details of the dedication ceremony were published in the Rochester press. Several articles from October, 1960 are preserved in scrapbook no. 19 in the Howard Hanson Collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> The Eastman School of Music, 1947-1962, <\/em>edited by Charles Riker (University of Rochester, 1963), pages 10-12.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Dedication Ceremony, Howard Hanson Inter-Faith Chapel, October 23, 1960; privately recorded.\u00a0 Two copies, each a 7\u201d analog reel, are preserved in the Howard Hanson Collection, Sibley Music Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> The texts of many of Hanson\u2019s public address are preserved in the Howard Hanson Collection at the\u00a0 Sibley Music Library.\u00a0 These include a number of his Convocation addresses. In addition, a number of the Hanson-era Convocations were recorded and are preserved in the Eastman Audio Archive.<\/span><\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> Thirteen months later, in November, 1961, Hanson and the orchestra would embark on a three-month European tour with U.S. State Department support.\u00a0 The tour has been the focus of several previous entries of This Week at Eastman. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[10]<\/a> \u201cThe Hanson Chapel\u201d was an unsigned editorial printed in The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle,<\/em> October 27, 1960.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space]\n\n\n<\/svg>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1631195300893{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”4″ element_width=”3″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1729613994421-d03aa36b-4fac-8″ taxonomies=”18″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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