Peter Herman Adler (2 December 1899, Gablonz an der Neiße, Bohemia – 2 October 1990, Ridgefield, Connecticut) was an American conductor born in Austria–Hungary in Gablonz an der Neiße, which is now in the Czech Republic. While at the Prague Conservatory, Adler studied with Vítězslav Novák, Fidelio Finke, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.[1] He was the music and artistic director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964) and the National Educational Television. He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana. He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza. He later conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1968. He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera MacBeth at the Juilliard School in May 1973.[2] He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Description: Peter Herman Adler (2 December 1899, Gablonz an der Neiße, Bohemia – 2 October 1990, Ridgefield, Connecticut) was an American conductor born in Austria–Hungary in Gablonz an der Neiße, which is now in the Czech Republic. While at the Prague Conservatory, Adler studied with Vítězslav Novák, Fidelio Finke, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.[1] He was the music and artistic director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964) and the National Educational Television. He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana. He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza. He later conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1968. He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera MacBeth at the Juilliard School in May 1973.[2] He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. [show more]
Left to Right: Henry David Bartlett (1893-1962) Albert A. Bartlett (1866-1942) Frank E. Turner (1863-?) The house in the background is the Galley house - later owned by the Bartletts. Albert is showing a piece of paper and it looks as though that was the occasion for the photograph. Possibly the deed for the house?
Description: Left to Right: Henry David Bartlett (1893-1962) Albert A. Bartlett (1866-1942) Frank E. Turner (1863-?) The house in the background is the Galley house - later owned by the Bartletts. Albert is showing a piece of paper and it looks as though that was the occasion for the photograph. Possibly the deed for the house?
George W. Anderson was born on March 10, 1859 to Moses Anderson and Lucy A. (Burns) Anderson in Trenton, Maine. George married Susie J. Wilbur (1847-1888) of Waltham, daughter of John Ford Wilbur and Phebe J. (Haslam) Wilbur, on February 27, 1881 at Bar Harbor, Maine. After Susie died in 1888 George married Bernice Hanson (1860-) of Machiasport on November 16, 1889 at Machias, Maine. Dr. Anderson built his house and office in Manset and practiced there for some time. By 1910 he is listed as a house painter in Bar Harbor. The fact is verified, but so far researchers have found no other details about his change of profession. George W. Anderson died on May 22, 1916 in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: George W. Anderson was born on March 10, 1859 to Moses Anderson and Lucy A. (Burns) Anderson in Trenton, Maine. George married Susie J. Wilbur (1847-1888) of Waltham, daughter of John Ford Wilbur and Phebe J. (Haslam) Wilbur, on February 27, 1881 at Bar Harbor, Maine. After Susie died in 1888 George married Bernice Hanson (1860-) of Machiasport on November 16, 1889 at Machias, Maine. Dr. Anderson built his house and office in Manset and practiced there for some time. By 1910 he is listed as a house painter in Bar Harbor. The fact is verified, but so far researchers have found no other details about his change of profession. George W. Anderson died on May 22, 1916 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. [show more]