DEC 16, 1891 Orchestrating Stanfordian Sound
Almost immediately after Stanford University opened its doors, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra became an official campus …
Almost immediately after Stanford University opened its doors, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra became an official campus …
Stanford Juniors of the class of 1896 publish The Stanford Quad, the university’s first yearbook. These …
The Stanford Glee Club appears in the first issue of the Stanford yearbook (Quad, 1895), followed …
Written and composed in 1892 by mechanical engineering Professor Albert W. Smith and his wife, Mary …
The dedicatory service of Memorial Church marks a milestone event in the artistic life at Stanford. …
The Memorial Church hosts a funeral service to honor Jane Stanford. Inscriptions engraved into the church’s …
The founding of Ram’s Head Theatrical Society marks one of the most enduring legacies created …
Seven years after the Great Earthquake, the Memorial Church reopens its doors. The material resurrection of …
Warren Dwight Allen becomes the first long-standing University Organist at Memorial Church and changes the face …
On a knoll overlooking the campus and Lagunita, a large official residence (the first provided by …
Well known as the home of the Stanford Football team, the stadium also hosted musical events …
Although alumni reunions occurred before the 1920s, the 1923 Quad documents the first alumni reunion held …
With the support of the ASSU, the illustrious singer, actor, and Civil Rights activist Paul Robeson …
The success of the summer concerts led to the quartet being invited back for return engagements …
An inaugural joint concert featuring the Stanford Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Glee Club marks the first …
The ASSU concert series procures Igor Stravinsky to perform alongside violinist Samuel Dushkin. The 1934/1935 season …
The 1936 ASSU concert series wedded music to dance by inviting the Vienna Boys Choir and …
Frost Amphitheater, the 20-acre bowl designed by landscape architect Leslie Kiler (class of 1924), was a …
Mrs. Herbert Hoover invited a group of friends to help fund the following year’s series of …
Duke Ellington and his band members play for dancers at the Sophomore Cotillion. Ellington’s jazzy overtones …
The following year it is reorganized as the Department of Music. The Announcement of Courses for …
Although Menuhin’s appointment was only brief, his association with Adolph Baller, who became a lecturer in …
The beloved Harold C. Schmidt assumes directorship over the Stanford University Choir. With Jane Stanford’s insistence, …
Stanford’s radio station KZSU (originally KSU) makes its first live broadcast under the auspices of the …
Benjamin Britten’s first and perhaps best-known opera, Peter Grimes, is given its first West Coast production …
The Hungarian-born American conductor, violinist and scholar, Sandor Salgo, was born into a Jewish family in …
Former members of the “Friends of Music” form a new group, the “Music Guild.” Their stated …
Stanford students’ penchant for social dancing and jazz music co-mingled in the ASSU-sponsored Louis Armstrong Dance. …
Hailed with much fanfare as the “theater of tomorrow,” the Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel Memorial Auditorium opened …
For further details see entry under 2009 (“The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound celebrates its 50th …
The recently formed Folk Music Club presents its first campus concert. This event coincides with a …
The controversial dismissal of Stanford Band Director Jules Schucat in 1963 sowed the seeds of protest. …
The formation of the Stanford Mendicants, the university’s oldest a cappella group, peppered college life with …
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter, Luci Johnson, attends a concert at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater. Frost hosted …
Stanford celebrates Shakespeare’s 400th birthday by opening a Summer Festival of the Arts with an Elizabethan …
A student-organized nine-month series of jazz concerts, lectures, films, and exhibits is launched with fall quarter …
Lively Arts was formed to “curate experiences that engage artists’ and audiences’ imagination, creativity, and sense …
The first Stanford Powwow marks students’ initiative to educate the public on the complexity of Native …
With the founding of Ballet Folklorico de Stanford began the first enduring student organization to honor …
Professor William Mahrt, a medieval musicologist with the Stanford Music Department, establishes the Early Music Singers. …