December 5, 1920 |
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The Club holds its first organizational meeting |
December 31, 1920 |
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The Club is incorporated by New York State; first meeting |
January 5, 1921 |
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First regular meeting of the Club |
1922 |
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The Club publishes Robert Russell Bennett's Rondo Capriccioso for four flutes |
February 26, 1928 |
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Flute collector and acoustician Dayton C. Miller is guest of honor, giving a talk "On the Gentle Art of Flute Playing"; the rest of the program is composed and played by Quinto Maganini, with John Kirkpatrick at the piano |
December 18, 1938 |
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Recital of new music for flute and piano by Georges Barrere; includes Gaubert's Sonatine, Marion Bauer's Five Greek Lyrics, Richard Franko Goldman's Divertimento, and the New York premiere of Eugene Goossens' Three Pictures |
March 31, 1940 |
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First known Flute Club recital by John Wummer |
April 29, 1945 |
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Milton Wittgenstein and Harry Moskovitz give a program of first performances of chamber music written originally for various combinations of two flutes, guitar, violin, viola, and cello |
December 21, 1947 |
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Carleton Sprague Smith, flutist and musicologist, comments on historical recordings of John Lemmone, Arthur Brooke, Emil Prill, John Amadio, Barrere, Moyse, and others |
1948 |
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Eldin Burton wins the Club's first (and, until 2014, only) composition competition for his Sonatina for flute and piano (published by Carl Fischer) |
January 29, 1950 |
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The Club sponsors the first appearance in the United States of the Moyse Trio (Marcel Moyse, flute; Blanche Honegger-Moyse, violin, and Louis Moyse, piano and flute) |
December 18, 1966 |
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Harvey and Sophie Sollberger, flutes, assisted by Otto Luening, flute and Charles Wuorinen, piano, give a program of contemporary compositions by Luciano Berio, Chou Wen-chung, Charles Wuorinen, Luening, Kazuo Fukushima, Mario Davidovsky, and Sollberger |
1976 |
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The Club publishes a record, The Flute in American Music, to commemorate the American bicentennial |
February 20, 1977 |
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Laurence Trott presents the Club's first piccolo recital |
December 13, 1981 |
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Theobald Boehm Memorial Concert, in honor of the 100th anniversary of his death, with Samuel Baron, Paige Brook, James Hosmer, Karl Kraber, Eleanor Lawrence, and Gary Schocker |
December 14, 1986 |
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Concert to Remember and Honor Harold Bennett |
October 22, 1989 |
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A concert to celebrate the memory of Marcel Moyse on the 100th anniversary of his birth |
March 19, 1994 |
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First New York Flute Fair held, with Jean-Pierre Rampal as guest artist |
March 21, 1998 |
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The Fourth New York Flute Fair honors Julius Baker |
March 11, 2001 |
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The Seventh New York Flute Fair honors the memory of Jean-Pierre Rampal, with appearances by biographer Denis Verroust, Michel Debost, Karl Kraber, and Eugenia Zukerman |
2014 |
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Composition competition is reinstated |