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National Conference on Community Music, held May 31-June 1, 1917 at the Hotel Astor, New York. Report of the Conference online at: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006675025

Thanks for linking this photo to the others, Art Siegel. We'll add some of the information to the record the next time we update.

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

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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.