{"id":9328,"date":"2011-04-08T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2011-04-08T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:21:04","slug":"new-collection-preserves-music-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/04\/new-collection-preserves-music-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"New collection preserves music knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9329\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9329\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9329  \" title=\"Isidor Philipp and Harold Bradley\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bradleyschool1.jpg\" alt=\"Isidor Philipp and Harold Bradley\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isidor Philipp, left, and Harold Bradley at a piano in 1956. Photos from the Bradley Institute collection.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A wealth of Niagara Falls musical history is now preserved in Brock\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/collections\/special-collections-archives\" target=\"_blank\">Special Collections and Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brock has received a donation of archival materials from the Bradley Institute for Music Education, a school that operated in Niagara Falls for more than 70 years before it closed in 2008.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9452\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9452\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9452  \" title=\"A boy playing the cello. Photo from the Bradley Institute collection, Brock Special Collections and Archives\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bradley-institute-boy.jpg\" alt=\"A boy playing the cello. Photo from the Bradley Institute collection, Brock Special Collections and Archives\" width=\"243\" height=\"356\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boy playing the cello. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The collection has a wealth of musical history, including correspondence between Niagara Falls native James Harold Bradley (1906-1984) and Isidor Philipp (1863-1958), a world-renowned pianist and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. Together, they founded the Bradley Institute for Musical Education in Paris. In 1932, they moved the institute to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The men had a unique approach to musical education, teaching music comprehensively via audio memory, muscle memory and the mind, said David Sharron, head of Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey understood that music further developed the left and right sides of the brain in their students and that everyone has musical ability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bradley Collection includes photos, letters and student rosters over the decades. One gem is a roughly 250-page unpublished manuscript written by Bradley, who describes his history and philosophy of music. He worked on it until he died in 1984, Sharron said.<\/p>\n<p>Images range from the 1940s to the 1990s, including many teachers and small children with \u201cthe tiniest violins I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would be of interest to anyone who\u2019s interested in Niagara Falls history, especially those who went to the school,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was a school that lasted for more than 70 years, so it was definitely an institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An American university with an Isidor Philipp archive was also interested in the collection. Sharron says he is pleased that it was able to stay in Niagara.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9453\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9453\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9453\" title=\"A girl plays the violin with a young spectator nearby. Photo from the Bradley Institute collection, Brock Special Collections and Archives\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bradley-institute-kids-1.jpg\" alt=\"A girl plays the violin with a young spectator nearby. Photo from the Bradley Institute collection.\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A girl plays the violin with a young spectator nearby.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealth of Niagara Falls musical history is now preserved in Brock\u2019s Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[24,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}