Tuesday Morning Musical Club Records

Overview

Scope and Contents

Biographical Note

Subject Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description

Concert and Club Programs

Administrative Files

Membership and History



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Collection Overview

Title: Tuesday Morning Musical Club Records, 1898-2024Add to your cart.View associated digital content.

ID: 48/3/8

Primary Creator: Tuesday Morning Musical Club (Champaign, Il) (1914-)

Extent: 3.5 cubic feet

Arrangement:

The Tuesday Morning Musical Club Records are arranged into three series: Series 1: Concert and Club Programs, Series 2: Adminstrative Files, and Series 3: Membership and History.

Series 1 includes the club's many recital programs which they began printing in 1916 as well as the club's annual program booklets. The first five program books were grouped together, and the first three were compiled by the club's historian Dorothy Miller O'Donnell in 1946. The first of these books contains club history rather than concert programs.

Series 2 includes secretary books of meeting minutes--many handwritten, financial records, and correspondence. The correspondence includes personal letters, thank you notes, recommendations, and resignations.

Series 3 includes records created by and about the members of the club. One file includes the photographs of the founding members. A few of the scrapbooks were compiled by Mrs. Edna Morey and Mrs. Michaud. The scrapbooks include photographs, newspaper clippings, concert programs, letters, cards, and telegrams. Some of the content in the history binders is photocopies of the first Program Book of Series 1. Other content includes handwritten stories and member lists.

Date Acquired: 02/04/2014. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Concert Programs, Music, Music & society, Music--Societies, etc. -- United States, Music - United States, Photographs

Formats/Genres: Meeting Minutes, Newspaper Clippings, Scrapbooks

Languages: English, French

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of secretary books, photographs, scrapbooks, news clippings, programs, histories, program books, yearbooks, and financial records documenting the continuous operation of the Tuesday Morning Musical Club between 1914 and 2012.

Biographical 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.

Subject/Index Terms

Concert Programs
Music
Music & society
Music--Societies, etc. -- United States
Music - United States
Photographs

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Accruals:

2017-2018 programs, year book, and meeting minutes transferred April 25, 2018.

2018-2019 programs, yearbook, and meeting minutes transferred April 24, 2019.

2019-2020 programs, yearbook, and meeting minutes transferred July 22, 2020.

2020-2021 programs, yearbook, and meeting minutes transferred May 22, 2021.

2021-2022 programs, yearbook, and meeting minutes transferred June 2, 2022.

Secretary Book 2017-2022 transferred April 12, 2023.

2022-2023 programs and meeting minutes transferred May 23, 2024.

2023-2024 programs, meeting minutes, and budgets transferred May 23, 2024.

Acquisition Source: Tuesday Morning Music Club

Acquisition Method: Gift


Box and Folder Listing


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Series 3: Membership and History, 1898-2014Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 19: The Five Founders of the Tuesday Morning Musical Club of Champaign- Urbana Illinois (original photographs), 1914-1936Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Folder 20: Tuesday Morning Musical Club Highlights, 1914-1950Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Compiled from original documents by Margaret Khachaturian, Historian: 1987-2013.
Folder 21: Tuesday Morning Musical Club Highlights, 1950-2013Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Compiled from original documents by Margaret Khachaturian, Historian: 1987-2013.
Folder 22: History, 1914-2014Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Club History including photographs and specific member biographies compiled by Margaret Khachaturian between 1987 and 2014. Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 23: History, 1914-2014Add to your cart.
Oral history and member lists compiled by Margaret Khachaturian. Folder 2 of 2.
Folder 24: 100th Anniversary Committee Research File, 2013-2014Add to your cart.
Includes research on the history of the Club and its members from 1895 to 2014.
Folder 25: Founders Day 100th Anniversary Research -- Terry Maher, 2014Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Member Information and Member Interviews, 2013-2014Add to your cart.
Interviews and member information collected by Terry Maher.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Edna Morey Scrapbook, 1915-1951Add to your cart.
Light brown leather scrapbook with brown tassels and gold embossed front, loose pages. Includes concert programs, letters, newspaper articles, photographs and other ephemera highlighting Morey's musical interests and involvement with the Tuesday Morning Music Club.
Folder 2: Jane Michaud Scrapbook, 1898-1968Add to your cart.
Dark Red scrapbook, with embosed "scrapbook" on front cover, pages glued in. Includes pictures, newspaper articles, programs, obituary, and other ephemera collected by and about Jane Michaud (formerly Jane Wells Chase) and her early involvement with the Tuesday Morning Musical Club. Note: many articles and newspaper clippings are in French.
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Folder 1: Edna Morey Scrapbook, 1924-1952Add to your cart.
Dark brown leather scrapbook, with embossed floral pattern on front cover, includes scrapbook and four Club Members Programs 1948-1949, 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1951-1952. Includes concert prorgrams, letters, photographs, and other ephemera highlighting Morey's interest in music and her involvement with the Tuesday Morning Music Club.
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Item 1: Tuesday Morning Musical Club Program Scrapbook, 1941-1987Add to your cart.
Dark Green cover with gold square around the edge. Scrapbook created by club historian 1978. Includes programs, club budget reports, photographs, newspaper articles and other ephemera highlighting the clubs output from 1978-1987. Of particular note are articles and musical programs featuring Wilma Zonn and Ian and Claude Hobson.
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Item 1: Tuesday Morning Musical Club Scrapbook VI, 1963-1978Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Light Green with silver fluer de lis and diamond pattern on front cover, loose pages. Scrapbook contains newspaper clipplings, concert programs, photographs, and other ephemera relating to the Tuesday Morning Musical Club. Of particular note are programs that featured Helen Hamm, Virginia Gaburo, and Wilma Zonn.

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