Civic Music Association
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Abbreviation | CMA |
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Formation | 1925 |
Founder | Mrs. Arthur Neumann, Mrs. John Cowles, and Mrs. Sam Shloss |
Location |
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Website | civicmusic.org |
The Civic Music Association of Des Moines (CMA)[1] is an arts organization located in Des Moines, Iowa. Founded in 1925, CMA presents concerts featuring classical and jazz musicians. These concerts are held at various performance venues throughout Des Moines, including Hoyt Sherman Place, Salisbury House & Gardens, Temple Theater, Noce, and Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University.
History[edit]
Founding (1920s)[edit]
The Civic Music Association was founded on June 30th, 1925. The first concert presented by CMA took place on November 6th, 1925, featuring the Kibalchich Russian Symphonic Choir at the Des Moines Municipal Auditorium. A total of five concerts were presented in the first season from 1925 to 1926, including Metropolitan Opera Soprano Dusolina Giannini. Rather than individual tickets, only season memberships were offered at a price of $5.[2] Other notable acts who came to Des Moines in the 1920s include The Manhattan Opera Company, Mischa Levitzki, Feodor Chaliapin, and Richard Crooks.[3]
1930s[edit]
Although the Great Depression caused some scaling back of the budget, Civic Music continued to bring notable musicians to Central Iowa. The 1932 to 1933 season started with a performance at Hoyt Sherman Place featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff. American contralto Marian Anderson gave a performance during the 1936 to 1937 season featuring works by Handel, Schubert, Verdi, Sibelius, and others. The following season, memberships became over-subscribed to the point where many members had to be placed on a waiting list or refunded.[2]
1940s[edit]
The increase in Civic Music Association memberships continued into the 40s, particularly during the post-war years.[4] Concerts were moved to the KRNT Theater in 1946 to accommodate for the growing interest. Memberships exceeded 4,000 by the 1947 to 1948 season, making Des Moines the third largest Civic Music audience in the country, behind Eugene, Oregon and Chattanooga, Tennessee.[2]
Midcentury[edit]
From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Civic Music Association presented children’s concerts, primarily at performances by Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The first children’s concert took place in February of 1940, hosting 3,800 children at Shrine Auditorium. It was the first symphony orchestra concert in Des Moines to be targeted towards children.[5]
1970s[edit]
When the KRNT Theater closed in 1972, concerts were moved back to Hoyt Sherman Place. However, there were occasionally large ensembles who required a larger venue; In 1974, the Denver Symphony performed in the Technical High School Auditorium. Concerts were moved to the Civic Center when it opened in 1979, and remained there for several years.
1980s-2000[edit]
2000-Present[edit]
Membership[edit]
At first, Civic Music Association concerts were sold exclusively through memberships, with unreserved seating.[6] Memberships were sold during a short period of a few days during annual membership drives.[7] After the Civic Music Association of Des Moines became a member of the National Civic Music Association in 1930, the National Association sent someone to assist in the membership drives when they occurred.
Belin Quartet[edit]
The Civic Music Association has partnered with and provided instrumental support for the Belin Quartet since its founding in 2000. The quartet has performed a summer series of free string quartet concerts for 24 seasons, and currently hold concerts at the Salisbury House & Gardens.
The Belin Quartet honors the legacy of David and Connie Belin and is funded by the Iowa Foundation for Education, Environment, and the Arts. David Belin was an attorney for the Warren Commission and the Rockefeller Commission, as well as a concert violinist.[8] Connie Belin was an avid supporter of music and the arts, and the co-founder of the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa.
Season History[9][edit]
1920s[edit]
1925-1926[edit]
- Kilbalchich Russian Symphonic Choir
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Jacques Gordon
- Dusolina Giannini
- Hinshaw Operatic Ensemble
1926-1927[edit]
- Manhattan Opera Company
- Claire Dux and Lauritz Melchior
- Mischa Levitzki
- Harry Farbman
1927-1928[edit]
- Sophie Breslau and Joseph Szigeti
- NY String Quartet and Wanda Landowska
- Hans Kindler and Gitta Gradova
- Beggars Opera (Original London Cast)
- Feodor Chaliapin
1928-1929[edit]
- Guy Maier and Lee Pattison
- Prague Teachers Chorus
- Bohn Ballet
- Mary Lewis
- Rene Chamet and Barre Hill
1929-1930[edit]
- Hans Kindler and Gitta Gradova
- Richard Crooks
- Russian Don Cossack Choir
- Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud
- Florence Austral
- London String Quartet
1930s[edit]
1930-1931[edit]
- Edward Johnson
- Aguilar Lute Quartette
- Harold Bauer
- Barrerre Little Symphony
- Claire Dux
1931-1932[edit]
- Walter Gieseking
- Dusolina Giannini
- Gordon String Quartet
- The Bluebird
- Drake Trio and Soloist
1932-1933[edit]
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Roth Quartet
- Coe Glade
- Paul Kochanski
1933-1934[edit]
- Molitore-Tentare
- Budapest Quartet
- Myra Hess
- John Charles Thomas
- Nathan Milstein
1934-1935[edit]
- Benno Rabinof
- Grete Stückgold
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Monnier and Cozzi
- Egon Petri
1935-1936[edit]
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Monte Carlo Ballet
- Ignaz Friedman
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
1936-1937[edit]
1937-1938[edit]
1938-1939[edit]
- Ballet Russell Jensen
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Lotte Lehmann
- Bartlett and Robertson
1939-1940[edit]
1940s[edit]
1940-1941[edit]
- Russian Don Cossack Choir
- Jarmila Novotná
- Joseph Szigeti
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
1941-1942[edit]
1942-1943[edit]
1943-1944[edit]
1944-1945[edit]
1945-1946[edit]
1946-1947[edit]
- Blanche Thebom
- Luboschutz and Nemenoff
- Original Ballet Russe
- Nathan Milstein
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Rudolf Serkin
1947-1948[edit]
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Eleanor Steber
- Isaac Stern
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Mack Harrell
- Ballet Theatre
1948-1949[edit]
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- Gladys Swarthout
- Jussi Björling
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Four Piano Ensemble
1949-1950[edit]
- Robert Shaw Chorale
- Charles Wagner Opera Co.
- Ebe Stignani
- Leonard Pennario
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Jascha Heifetz
1950s[edit]
1950-1951[edit]
- Astrid Varnay
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Gold and Fizdale
- Giuseppe Di Stefano
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ballet Theatre
- Artur Rubenstein
1951-1952[edit]
- Cleveland Orchestra
- Ballet Theatre
- Robert Shaw Chorale
- Michael Rabin
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Guiomar Novaes
1952-1953[edit]
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Robert Merrill
- Ballet Theatre
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- William Kapell
- Victoria de los Ángeles
1953-1954[edit]
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Agnes de Mille Ballet
- Jerome Hines
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Hilde Gueden
- Artur Rubinstein
1954-1955[edit]
- Roberta Peters
- De Paur Infantry Chorus
- Tossy Spivakovksy
- Rose Bampton
- Ballet Theatre
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
1955-1956[edit]
- Santa Cecilia Choir
- Blanche Thebom
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Alexander Brailowsky
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Gregor Piatigorsky
1956-1957[edit]
- National Swedish Choir
- Vronsky and Babin
- Ballet Russe
- Nathan Milstein
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- Eileen Farrell
1957-1958[edit]
- Leonard Warren
- Ruggiero Ricci
- Byron Janis
- National Ballet Canada
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
1958-1959[edit]
- Danish National Orchestra
- Jean Madeira
- Ruth Slenczynska
- George London
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Chicago Opera Ballet
1959-1960[edit]
- Adele Addison
- Géza Anda
- János Starker
- José Greco Dancers
- Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
1960s[edit]
1960-1961[edit]
- Vronsky and Babin
- Chicago Little Symphony
- National Ballet of Canada
- Joyce Flissler
- Minneapolis Symphony
- Irmgard Seefried
1961-1962[edit]
- Goldovsky Theatre Opera
- Richard Tucker
- Malcolm Frager
- Leonard Rose
- San Francisco Ballet
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
1962-1963[edit]
- National Ballet of Canada
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
- Nicolai Gedda
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- John Browning
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
1963-1964[edit]
1964-1965[edit]
- Van Cliburn
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- Società Corelli
- Lois Marshall
- Charles Treger
- Houston Symphony Orchestra
1965-1966[edit]
- Cleveland Orchestra
- Gina Bachauer
- Shirley Verrett
- Grand Ballet de France
- John and Richard Contiguglia
- Henryk Szeryng
- Jan Peerce
1966-1967[edit]
- Jerome Hines
- Goldovsky Opera Theatre
- Isaac Stern
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
1967-1968[edit]
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Itzhak Perlman
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- Philadelphia Chamber Symphony
- Roberta Peters
- Gina Bachauer
1968-1969[edit]
- Camerata Singers
- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Janet Baker
- Artur Rubinstein
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
1969-1970[edit]
- Elizabeth Harwood
- Bach Aria Group
- Claudio Arrau
- American Ballet Theater
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Zurich Chamber Orchestra
1970s[edit]
1970-1971[edit]
- Sherrill Milnes
- Obernkirchen Children's Choir
- André Watts
- Menuhin Festival Orchestra
- Leontyne Price
1971-1972[edit]
- Boston Ballet and Edward Villella
- Marilyn Horne
- Carlos Barbosa-Lima
- Young Uck Kim
- Budapest Symphony Orchetsra
- Craig Sheppard
1972-1973[edit]
- Gary Grafman and Leonard Rose
- Gregg Smith Singers
- Birgit Nilsson
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Alicia de Larrocha
1973-1974[edit]
- Whittemore and Lowe
- Virgil Fox
- Juilliard String Quartet
- Denver Symphony Orchestra
- New York Pro Musica
1974-1975[edit]
- New York Brass Quintet
- Lili Kraus
- Vienna Choir Boys
- Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square
- Beverly Sills
1975-1976[edit]
- Itzhak Perlamn
- Dubrvnik Festival Orchestra
- Jean-Pierre Rampal and Robert Veyron-Lacroix
- Jorge Bolet
- Simon Estes
- Joffrey II Ballet
1976-1977[edit]
- Lynn Harrell
- Elly Ameling
- Gold and Fizdale
- Carlos Montoya
- Jörg Demus
- Boston Symphony Chamber Players
1977-1978[edit]
- Tokyo String Quartet
- Sherrill Milnes
- Norman Luboff Choir
- Ruth Slenczynska
- Franz Liszt Orchestra of Budapest
1978-1979[edit]
- Garrick Ohlsson
- The World of Gilbert and Sullivan
- Joffrey II Dancers
- Beaux Arts Trio
- Eugene Fodor
1979-1980[edit]
- Isaac Stern
- Lazar Berman
- Marilyn Horne
- Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alexandre Lagoya
- St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
1980s[edit]
1980-1981[edit]
1981-1982[edit]
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble
- Shirley Verrett
- Emanuel Ax
- Pinchas and Eugenia Zukerman
1982-1983[edit]
- Andre-Michel Schub
- Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
- Emerson String Quartet
- Canadian Brass Quintet
- Dresden State Orchestra
- Santiago Rodriguez
1983-1984[edit]
- Malcolm Frager
- George Shearing/Marian McPartland
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
- Gary Karr
1984-1985[edit]
- Garrick Ohlsson
- Barry Tuckwell and the Northern Sinfonia of England
- Itzhak Perlman
- Sherrill Milnes
- Boston Symphony Chamber Players
1985-1986[edit]
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Paula Robison and Ruth Laredo
- Bella Davidovich and Dmitry Sitkovetsky
- Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Cecile Licad
1986-1987[edit]
- Ensemble for Early Music
- Jeffrey Siegel
- Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest
- Lynn Harrell and Rudolf Firkusny
- Simon Estes and Roberta Alexander
- Juilliard String Quartet
1987-1988[edit]
- Katia and Marielle Labèque
- New York Vocal Arts Ensemble
- Israel Chamber Orchestra
- Isaac Stern
- André Watts
- Empire Brass Quintet
1988-1989[edit]
- State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR
- Elmar Oliveira and Horacio Gutierrez
- Richard Stoltzman with Bill Douglas
- Eddie Gomez and John Pearson
- Ursula Oppens
- Berlin Chamber Orchestra
- Mirecourt Trio
1989-1990[edit]
- Nikolais and Louis Dance
- Shlomo Mintz
- Earl Wild
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Octet
- Wynton Marsalis
1990s[edit]
1990-1991[edit]
1991-1992[edit]
1992-1993[edit]
- Prague Chamber Orchestra
- Empire Brass
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Cecile Licad
- Christopher Parkening
- Billy Taylor Trio
1993-1994[edit]
- New York Philomusica
- Frederica von Stade
- Gustav Rivinius
- Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn
- Marcus Roberts Trio
1994-1995[edit]
- Summit Brass
- Manhattan String Quartet
- Newport Jazz Festival on Tour
- Boys Choir of Harlem
- Horacio Gutiérrez
1995-1996[edit]
- Bolcom and Morris Cabaret
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Joshua Bellz
- Arturo Sandoval Jazz Sextet
- Santiago Rodriguez
1996-1997[edit]
- Sounds of Blackness
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Quartetto Gelato
- Mark Peskanov
- The Mingus Big Band
1997-1998[edit]
- Manhattan String Quartet
- Vienna Choir Boys
- Canadian Brass
- Christopher Parkening and Jubilant Sykes
- Chick Corea and Gary Burton
1998-1999[edit]
- Quartetto Gelato
- Frederic Chiu
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Yellowjackets
- Parsons Dance Company with Phil Woods Little Big Band
1999-2000[edit]
- Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush and Mike Marshall
- The Romeros
- James Galway and the Safri Duo
- Eliane Elias
- Young Concert Artist Trio
References[edit]
- ↑ "Opportunity for Iowa nonprofits: Gannett Foundation relaunches multimillion-dollar crowdfunding, grant program". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Canarina, John. "75 Years of Civic Music." 2000.
- ↑ "Season History". Civic Music Association. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ↑ "Civic Music Membership Increased". Des Moines Sunday Register. March 17, 1946.
- ↑ Grant, Donald (February 20, 1940). "Symphonies Trill 3,800 D.M. Children". The Des Moines Register. p. 9.
- ↑ "Through "Civic Music" Des Moines has enjoyed greatest artists of the musical world". Des Moines Sunday Register. March 20, 1949.
- ↑ Wingate, Blanche (March 22, 1936). "Civic Music Drive to Start On Monday". Des Moines Sunday Register.
- ↑ "Details Page - The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa - The University of Iowa Libraries". uipress.lib.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
- ↑ "Season History 1925 to 2023". civicmusic.org.
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