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Tuesday Morning Musical Club (Champaign, Il) (1914-) | University of Illinois Archives
Name: Tuesday Morning Musical Club (Champaign, Il) (1914-)
Variant Name: Tuesday Morning Music Club
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Other Files: Acceptance Letter from Betty Hatch
Champaign-Urbana Residents Thrill to Annual Christmas Carol Concert of Tuesday Morning Music Club
Concert program for "Music of the Americas Twentieth Century Music Traditional and Progressive," at the home of Mrs. Bruce Clark; Jewish and Synagogue Music, at the home of Miss Elizabeth Boggs; and concert at the home of Mrs. George Clark
Concert program for "Programe Oriental," at the home of Mrs. E. A. Huckins
Concert program for "Russell Hancock Miles"
Edna Morey, Julia Little, Harriet Doner, and Lena Marshall (all charter members -- Marshall was a founder)
First Yearbook
Founders' Day Musicale, held one week at Clara Rolland's home
Holiday Concert Photograph and Heart-Shaped Program
Jane Michaud
Jean Nanney, Jane Michaud (sitting at piano), and Betty Seitz, at the home of Mrs. Harold Iles (Bessie Iles)
Letter to Mrs. Hobart from Harriet Blair Ward
Lucy Merril, Mary Eilbracht, Carol Holden (French horn), and Betty Berry, at the home of Mrs. Harold Iles (Bessie Iles)
Minutes of the Tuesday Morning Musical Club
Mrs. Andrew F. Fay (Susie Kelly Young) -- founder
Mrs. Dwight Miller, Harriet Koehler, Anee Radean, Sigrid Debrunner, and Carolyn Gunsalus
Mrs. Frederocl (Lena) -- founder
Mrs. Harry G. Paul (Mary Norris) -- founder
Mrs. Henry Baldwin Ward (Harriet Blair Ward) -- founder
Mrs. Herman Dorner, E. E. Hobart, C. M.Latowsky, and Dorothy O'Donnell
Mrs. John P. Hill (chairman for the program), and Mrs. Turpin C. Bannister (Charlotte, retiring president), at Latzer Hall of the University of Illinois YMCA
Musical Club Protests Against Disturbances at Concerts
Polly Pettinga (cello), Bettye Krolick (violin), and Mary Kelly (viola), at the home of Mrs. Russell Sullivan
Record of Dues Paid, pages 1-6
Secretary's book insert on inside of front cover
Wilma Zonn, Carol Baker, Mary Kelly (front row); Kathy Tessin, Evelyn Watterson, Barbara Dalheim, unidentified, Lenrose Jahiel, Harriet Koehler, Clara Leach (back row)
Historical Note: The Tuesday Morning Musical Club (TMMC) was formed in October 1914 by five women who felt the need for association among the women musicians of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, and these founding members (Mrs. Anne Angell Webster, Mrs. Susie Young Fay, Mrs. Lena Marshall, Mrs. Harriet Blair Ward, and Mrs. Mary Norris Paul) brought together twenty-six other women from the community to form this women's music organization. The following year a formal constitution was adopted by the TMMC which stated that its purpose was "to advance the interests and promote the culture of musical arts in the community and the mutual improvement of its members. In 1916, under the leadership of the club's president, Harriet Ward, the TMMC printed its first year book and began printing programs for its bi-montly music concerts and membership meetings. In March 1945 the club began a series of annual gifts to the University of Illinois' Music Library to honor the five founding members of the TMMC. These annual gifts of music books and scores were chosen by the membership at large in direct consultation with the University's Director of the School of Music and Music Librarian. Other activities included sponsoring guest performers, producing the annual Christmas carol program, and the staging of operas and other large scale music works within the community. The TMMC continues to play an active role in promoting the musical performances of the Urbana-Champaign community's women musicians, and is recognized as the longest continually-operated women's music organization in Central Illinois and possibly the country.
Sources: Margaret Khachaturian, Tuesday Morning Music Club Historian, 1987-2014.
