Peabody Institute

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Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Peabody Institute Johns Hopkins University Baltimore logo.svg
founding Founded: 1857. Opened: 1866. Joined Johns Hopkins University : 1985
address

1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA

place Baltimore , Maryland , USA
State Maryland
Country United States
Coordinates 39 ° 17 '50 "  N , 76 ° 36' 54"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 17 '50 "  N , 76 ° 36' 54"  E
student 269
Teachers 97
management Fred Bronstein, Doctor of Musical Arts (MDA)
Website peabody.jhu.edu
Peabody Institute, East Mount Vernon Place, circa 1902
George Peabody Library, (East Wing) - built in 1878

The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a music and dance conservatory and pre-college school in Baltimore , United States .

The Peabody Institute was founded by businessman, banker, and philanthropist George Peabody in 1857 and opened in 1866. It is the oldest conservatory in the United States. His association with Johns Hopkins University dates back to 1977. The institute is located in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of northern Baltimore , Maryland , United States , across from the Washington Monument on the southeast corner of North Charles and East Monument Streets (also known as the intersection of Mount Vernon Place and Washington Place).

history

George Peabody started the institute with a donation of approximately $ 800,000. He had originally made his fortune in Massachusetts and later increased it in Baltimore . He lived here from 1815 to 1835. He became considerably richer with banking and finance business at the next stages in his life in New York City and London , where he became the wealthiest American of his time.

The completion of the original building by architect Edmund George Lind in white marble in the Greek Revival - Italianate style (today's west wing) was delayed by the Civil War . It was inaugurated in 1866 by Peabody, who had traveled across the North Atlantic from London. He spoke to a crowd of honored guests, citizens and hundreds of Baltimore public schools at the inauguration ceremony on the steps across from the Washington Monument . Led by famous musicians, composers, conductors and Peabody graduates, the conservatory, concerts and lectures, library and art gallery, led by writers and intellectual lights, as well as the annual gold, silver and bronze medals with certificates and monetary awards for the city's top graduates known as the Peabody Awards, a significant national attention to the institute and the city's growing culture.

Under strict academic guidance, the Peabody grew into an internationally recognized cultural and literary center from the late 19th and 20th centuries. A considerable expansion in 1877 and 1878 with the completion of its eastern half of the building brought a significant growth spurt. The George Peabody Library, with its iconic five stacked wrought-iron balconies with stacks of books / shelves, surmounted by a sloping glass skylight, is one of the most beautiful and distinctive libraries in America.

The east wing of the institute's building on East Mount Vernon Place, built in 1878 with the attached George Peabody Library, is one of a number of architecturally significant ensembles of townhouses, mansions, art galleries, clubs, hotels and churches around the first monument of the US nation for its first President, which has developed into the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood. It is located in the rolling hills of northern Baltimore on the grounds of the nearby Belviedere estate, home of the commander of the famous Maryland Line Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War , Colonel John Eager Howard (1752-1827).

The institute grew from a local academy with art and sculpture gallery, public lecture series and the extensive reference library , which later became the model for the first system of public libraries in the USA. The library was created and furnished by Peabody's friend and fellow “Bay-Stater”, the businessman and philanthropist Enoch Pratt (1808-1896). Peabody and Pratt inspired the steel industrialist and multimillionaire Andrew Carnegie , (1835-1919) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , who furnished more than 2,500 libraries and buildings in the United States.

In 1978 "The Peabody" began to work together after a partnership agreement with Johns Hopkins University . It was founded in 1876 from the estate of another extremely wealthy businessman, Johns Hopkins (1792–1873). In 1985 the institute officially became a division of The Hopkins.

Peabody is one of 156 schools in the United States that offer a Doctor of Music degree.

The institute has two libraries: the historic George Peabody Library (originally the Peabody Institute Library ), founded when the institute opened in 1866, known for its collection of 19th century books and rarities, and the Arthur Friedheim Library , named after the Russian-born Pianist and conductor Arthur Friedheim (1859–1932), a separate academic music library, to complement the institute's original library, which holds more than 100,000 books, sheet music and recordings.

The conservatory was later supplemented by a college preparatory school (“Peabody Prep”) and an auditorium that is also used as a concert hall. Following the instructions from Peabody's original foundation from 1857, additional facilities were added: an art and sculpture gallery, a reference library, public lecture series and a system of gold, silver and bronze medals and certificates with cash rewards for the top Baltimore public graduates expanded schools (the Central High School of Baltimore for boys, founded in 1839, Baltimore City College since 1868 , and the Eastern and Western High Schools for girls, founded in 1844). “Peabody Prizes” have been awarded to top high school graduates since the year after the institute was founded. It has been an honorable annual public announcement tradition in the city's media for 122 years.

Additional buildings in the south and east made of somewhat flashy modernist light brownish-brown bricks along East Center Street and Saint Paul Street with a garage at ground level and two corner towers were built in 1971. During the early 1990s, several surviving townhouses at the east intersection with St. Paul were acquired and remodeled. The original facades opposite the historical monument sites and pocket parks were retained, but the interior was rebuilt and extended towards the rear. In the south, further townhouses with characteristic balconies with ornate iron balustrades overlooking North Charles Street and South Washington Place were acquired for a senior citizens' hostel. This enabled Peabody to round out its dense campus of adjoining buildings across the entire city block bounded by Charles, Mount Vernon Place, St. Paul and Center streets.

College preparation

Peabody's College Preparation offers instructional and immersion programs for school-age children in several locations in Baltimore and surrounding counties: Downtown (Baltimore, main campus), Towson , Annapolis (Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts), and Howard County (in cooperation with three schools).

Peabody children's choir

Children aged 6 to 18 sing in the Peabody Children's Choir. It is divided into three groups: Training Choir, Choristers and Cantata, graded according to age. They practice weekly in Towson or Columbia, Maryland, and sing twice a year in concerts and conducts by Doreen Falby, Bradley Permenter and Julia Sherriff. Cantate, with children ages 12 to 18, often performs with other groups, such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. He also tours regionally and internationally.

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Web links

Commons : Peabody Institute  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Peabody; Death of the Great Philanthropist - His Last Hours Passed in London - His Career and Benefactions (en) . In: The New York Times , November 5, 1869. Retrieved February 18, 2014. 
  2. ↑ Peabody to Affilliate [sic] With Johns Hopkins (en) . In: The New York Times , January 1, 1977. Retrieved February 18, 2014. 
  3. ↑ Bill Wierzalis, John P. Koontz: Images of America: Mount Vernon Place . Arcadia Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7385-4238-5 , pp. 60-61 (English).
  4. ^ Bernard Holland: The Peabody, Ready or Not, Is Pushed to Go Out on Its Own (en) . In: The New York Times , January 4, 1990. Retrieved October 9, 2009. 
  5. ^ Preparatory Campuses
  6. ↑ Lola Fadulu: 'I Expected to Have a day job for the rest of My Life'. How Philip Glass Went From Driving Taxis to Composing - The Atlantic. In: theatlantic.com. April 20, 2018, accessed May 21, 2020 .