American Choral Music, 1870-1923
Acknowledgments and Special Thanks
American Choral Music, 1870-1923 is a joint project of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Library of Congress. It is the result of the contributions of many people in the American Choral Directors Association and several divisions within the Library of Congress.
John Silantien, chair of the Julius Herford Dissertation Prize Committee, member of the Research and Publications Committee, and publication liaison/special projects chair of ACDA, selected music examples and wrote text for composers and music examples.
William Belan, national chair of the Research and Publications Committee, and member of publication liason/special projects subcommittee of ACDA, selected music examples and wrote text for composers and music examples.
Donald Oglesby, chair of the Research and Publications Committee and technology editor for The Choral Journal, ACDA, assisted with the selection of musical examples.
Hillary Apfelstadt, president of the ACDA, assisted in selecting music examples.
Karen Lund, digital project coordinator, Music Division, oversaw the digital production process of American Choral Music 1870-1923.
Karen Moses, senior reference specialist, Music Division, provided project oversight, wrote the essays "About this Presentation" and "How to Find Choral Music in the Performing Arts Reading Room" and "American Choral Music;" she also selected the holographs.
Jan Lancaster, an art historian and multimedia specialist, Music Division, selected and scanned many of the portraits and images for this Web presentation in consultation with Karen Moses.
Andrea Matles Savada, collections and services, Library of Congress, provided editorial assistance.
Robin Rausch, senior music specialist, Music Division, Library of Congress, located a photograph of Mabel Wheeler Daniels.
Barbara Orbach Natanson, acting head/reference automation specialist, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, arranged for six images to be scanned especially for this site.
Lynn Kidder, conservator, reviewed and cared for some of the more fragile pieces of music in preparation for digital scanning.
Christopher Pohlhaus, Jade Curtis, and Andrew Cook, Digital Scan Center, Information Technology Services, Library of Congress, scanned the choral music.
Steve McCollum, Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress, checked file headers for the digital images.
Steve Yusko, Special Materials Cataloging Team, Library of Congress, coordinated the cataloging of the choral music.
Valerie Weinberg, Special Materials Cataloging Team, Library of Congress, created the Voyager catalog records for the choral music.
Morgan Cundiff, Glenn Gardner, Julie Mangin, Betsy Miller and Nathan Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NDMSO), Library of Congress, provided the technical functionality and programming for this Web site.
Betsy Miller, NDMSO, created the Web site design and user interface based on user-centered design principles.
Martha Furman Schleifer, professor of music at Temple University, Philadelphia, and author of William Wallace Gilchrist, 1846-1916: A Moving Force in the Musical Life of Philadelphia (1985), kindly assisted us in locating photographs of William Wallace Gilchrist.
Daniel Hope, special collections & archives assistant, and Richard H. F. Lindemann, director, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine, provided a photograph of the three Gilchrists on the lawn from their William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. Collection and granted permission to reproduce it on this site.
Marianne Hansen, special collections librarian, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, graciously provided a digital photograph of a hawthorn branch from Philip Miller's Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardener's Dictionary... London: Printed for the author, 1771, to illustrate "The Hawthorn Tree" by Margaret Ruthven Lang.
Bettina Smith, image request coordinator, Folger Shakespeare Library, provided digital images of Arthur Rackham’s watercolor, Through the House Give Glimmering Light, and Sir John Gilbert’s chromolithograph, Sigh No More Ladies, to illustrate the choral music of Amy Beach and George Whitefield Chadwick respectively. Erin Blake, curator of art and special collections, Folger Shakespeare Library researched the permissions to reproduce Arthur Rackham’s watercolor and confirmed the medium of Gilbert’s Sigh No More Ladies. Georgianna Ziegler, head of reference, Folger Shakespeare Library suggested sources for images from scenes in Shakespeare’s plays.
Robin Baker, director of education, and Brian Stuart, associate director of marketing, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston, provided a digital image of the cover of a Handel and Haydn Society program of 1891-92.