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Shigeto Dewa (1856-1930): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewa_Shiget%C5%8D

See notes on Seizo Kobayashi under a Bain photo taken at same sitting as this one:

He came to New York on 2/19/15: "Admiral Baron Shigetoo Dewa, Naval Counselor to the Japanese Emperor, who came to this country to represent the Emperor at the opening of the Panama Canal and of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, arrived at the Astor from Washington yesterday, accompanied by his aides, Commander Seizo Kobayashi and Lieut. Commander Yoshitake Uyeda. " query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04E2DD1238E633A... An amusing episode on his visit happened when officials in Buffalo, New York, misreading a telegram abut arrangements for his arrival, mistakenly planned a large celebration for Admiral Dewey: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E5D81E3EE733A...

New York Community Chorus dinner Arthur Finley Nevin (April 27, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American composer, conductor, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Charles Sanford Skilton, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Nevin Frances Isabelle (Lockwood) Brundage (1854–1937) was an American illustrator best known for her depictions of attractive and endearing children on postcards, valentines, calendars, and other ephemera published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Samuel Gabriel Company, and Saalfield Publishing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Brundage Marian MacDowell (maiden name Marian Griswold Nevins) (November 22, 1857 – August 23, 1956) was a pianist, and in 1907 the founder and developer of the MacDowell Colony, an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States. Her leadership of the Colony through two world wars, the Great Depression and other challenges created one of the foremost art institutions in the United States, which cultivated the work of generations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_MacDowell

Not the New York Community Chorus Dinner, I think, but the National Conference on Community Music, May 31-June 1, 1917, Astor Hotel, New York. Frances Brundage of Chicago and Arthur Nevin of the University of Chicago, are mentioned as speakers at the Conference in this account: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B07E2D6123AE4...

Marian MacDowell, identified as Director of the Edward MacDowell Memorial Association, was one of the 12 organizers of the National Conference on Community Music. catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006675025

Thanks to all of you for your research. We'll add some of the information to the records for this event the next time we update

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Thanks for linking the photos Richard Norton. We'll add some of the information about this event to the record the next time we update.