1919 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Boston Program Book Composers HADLEY CHADWICK

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Scarce program from a 1919 Boston music festivalcelebrating the end of World War I, including world premieresand performances of their own works led by composers Henry Hadley, Henry F. Gilbert, George W. Chadwick, and Frederick Converse, and Percy Grainger Scarce souvenir program book from the International Music Festival, Mechanics Hall, Boston, February 21 - 22, 1919. Color-embossed softcover, 10.75 x 7.75 in., approx. 136 pages, illustrated. Mild soiling and handling wear, otherwise tight and near fine. A scarce survival from this massive but little-remembered musical celebration, modeled after the National Peace Jubilee held in Boston 50 years earlier. One page summarized the "purposes of the festival": "To help provide funds for assisting soldiers and sailors to find civil employment and to arouse the widest public interest in the just solution of this problem..... To provide a basis for broader mutual understanding between the various elements which make up the community and to stimulate an appreciation of the contributions which the foreign-born peoples are making to our civic and social advancement.... To bring together in a fitting celebration of victory and peace the representatives of all sections of the community that helped to swell Boston's part in the war.... To commemorate in a fitting manner the fiftieth anniversary read more

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