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Ernst Heinrich Hoffmann (June 18, 1899–January 3, 1956) was an American conductor who served as the music director of the Houston Symphony for eleven years. Hoffmann was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Although Ernst was an accomplished musician in his youth, during which he studied piano with the noted Harold Bauer, he enrolled in the anthropology program at Harvard University. Hoffmann was graduated cum laude in that discipline, whereupon he was offered a position on the Harvard anthropology faculty. He chose instead to go to Germany in 1920 to study music at the conservatory in Berlin. During this time he met Annemarie Clara ("Mini") Hoffmann (her maiden name), a native German teacher of mathematics and languages, whom he married in 1922, and with whom he had one child, a son, Clifford (born in 1927). Following his Berlin studies, Hoffmann performed as a violinist in Berlin theatre orchestras, often under the baton of the eminent Richard Strauss. In 1924 he was appointed conductor-in-chief of the Breslau Opera and Philharmonic, a position he held for ten years until, under the advent of Hitler's regime, he was declared unacceptable for the position because of his American citizenship. Hoffmann returned to the United States in 1934. In Boston, he founded the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra and became its music director. There he came to the attention of leaders of the Houston Symphony, and he was engaged as that orchestra's music director in 1936. Hoffmann was a popular figure in Houston, and his tenure on the podium there was the longest of any music director to that point. In 1947 Hoffmann left Houston and soon afterward accepted a position as director of orchestral music at Indiana University, a position he held until his death. En route to Indiana following a Christmas 1955 visit to their son in Houston, Ernst and Annemarie Hoffmann died in an automobile accident near Clarksdale, Mississippi, on January 3, 1956.
Frederick Jaehne. Nov 16, 1901 - September 1983. Frederick Jaehne of Cambridge City, Indiana was the conductor of the Brevard Light Concert Orchestra in Titusville, Florida.
Maurice F. Shadley was born in Greenwood, Indiana, graduated from Greenwood High School, attended DePauw University as a Rector Scholar and received Bachelor of Music (cum laude) and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Indiana Central College. He also studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he received his Masters and Ed.D. degrees.A professional educator, Dr. Shadley taught Orchestra, Band and Chorus at several Indiana high schools including Smithville, Bridgeton, Greenwood and Rensselaer as well as the Indiana University Laboratory School. He joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Music as assistant professor of Music Education and manager and director of the I.U. Music Clinic for High School Students and also coordinator of the Public Music Services. Shadley was a charter member of Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Mu. He served as Gamma Chapter’s first president. Dr. Shadley was a Navy veteran of World War II. His military service included serving as an officer for convoy duty in the North Atlantic from 1944-1946. He also participated in various musical organizations, including the Indiana Music Educators Association and was past president, was principal trombonist with the former Keith’s Theater Orchestra, the original Indianapolis Civic Orchestra and with the Bay View, Michigan, Symphony Orchestra. He further served as church organist and choir director at Hall Place M.E. Church in Indianapolis and was guest conductor of high school bands, orchestra and choral festivals throughout Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. He had also been honored by “School Musician Magazine” in an article titled “They Are Making America Musical,” and was selected by “The School Musician Magazine” as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Music Directors in the United States of America for 1963-64 school year. In 1963 Shadley resigned his position at IU and took a job on the professtional staff of Phi Delta Kappa International (Education). His assignment included traveling over 1 million miles in Europe and Asia. He held the title of Director of Special Services and helped establish chapters and act in an advisory capacity worldwide. He enjoyed trips to France and England best and found Moscow ‘interesting.’ He retired in 1975. Maurice Shadley passed away on January 5, 2007.
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