August 1940 - This is the year dance was firmly established as a new department at Camp. The enthusiasm of Hildegarde Lewis and her four colleagues from Wichita spread rapidly, and resulted in collaborations with the band, orchestra and the music faculty. Even Maddy got involved, leading the orchestra in “Finlandia” as the finale of the mid-July concert. The summer’s fourth “Concert of New Dance” on the final Friday featured junior, high school and college level dancers in works choreographed to music of Tchaikowsky, Rachmaninoff and faculty composer, Gardner Read. But possibly the strongest sign that the new medium had ‘arrived’ was the opening piece, “Denial,” a wholly original work choreographed to music composed that summer by William Rummel Francis, a high school theatre student from West Virginia.
August 9, 1959 - Citations were presented to Howard Hanson and Alexander Ruthven at an assembly following the Interlochen Service on the sixth Sunday of camp. This was the first time Hanson visited since Interlochen was placed on the “unfair list” by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) in 1944. The citation recognized annual visits (1928-1943) and the moral support he provided, even during the years of difficulty with the AFM.
Ruthven was president of The University of Michigan from 1929 to 1951, and our citation recognized his strong support for the promotional work Maddy did across the country, despite the time he needed to be absent from his teaching in Ann Arbor. The inscription repeats Ruthven’s declaration that, "if the university can afford to send archeological expeditions to remote areas of the world, it can afford to provide the services of one man to devote full time and energy to the promotion and development of music and music education in the United States." It is reasonable to say that without that level of support, Maddy’s Interlochen dream might never have been realized.
August 4, 1960 - The University Orchestra concert had an unusual twist. Clyde Roller conducted five works by five living American composers, all of whom were present: Bernard Brindel, Grant Beglarian and Don Gillis were all on the faculty; Dr. Hanson was guest conducting the orchestra; Deems Taylor was enjoying his third annual visit to this special place he admired over the years.
August 22-26, 1966 - The International Society for Music Education met at Interlochen, its first meeting in the western hemisphere. Over 400 delegates heard a diverse series of presentations by the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, a German youth orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, professional choral groups from France, Finland and Germany, Japanese Koto performers, American high school ensembles and the eminent saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix.
Three prominent composers also participated in the week’s activities: Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltan Kodaly, and Norman Dello Joio, whose “Songs of Walt Whitman” was specially commissioned for the event. Although we offered French and German translations of the speeches, most of the International delegates chose to read in English instead. The American members arriving the following day were dismayed to be offered only what was left: the French and German versions!
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