Harold S. Dyer

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1. by July 19, 1929 Harold S. Dyer is named head of the university's music department By mid-July 1929 Harold S. Dyer, head of fine arts at Southwestern College, had been chosen to succeed Paul John Weaver, who left for Cornell, as head of the university's music department. People: Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 19, 1929, p. 1
2. December 16, 1929 Chapel Hill's new community chorus sings Handel's Messiah The community chorus that George H. Lawrence organized in October, 120 voices from the church choirs, the faculty and the students, sang the Messiah under Harold S. Dyer in the Methodist church before more than 1,200 people, with an orchestra led by T. Smith McCorkle and soloists from Greensboro, Raleigh and Durham who took no fee. Memorial Hall's closing sent the performance to the church, and admission was free with an offering. People: George H. Lawrence, Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1929, p. 5
3. by August 29, 1930 The pipe organ for the University's new recital hall arrives and is installed By August 29, 1930, the four-manual pipe organ from the Casavant works at Lawrence, Kansas, had arrived in two railroad cars for the University's new music auditorium in the old Carnegie library building, and factory experts were installing it, echo organ included. It was the gift of an anonymous alumnus, and Harold S. Dyer hoped to have it ready by about October 20. People: Harold S. DyerThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 29, 1930, p. 1
4. November 14, 1930 The old Carnegie Library is dedicated as the music building After the library moved to its new building, the Carnegie Library was remodeled for the music department with an auditorium and a Reuter organ, most of the cost given by the Hill family. It was dedicated on November 14, 1930, and named Hill Music Hall by trustee resolution in the summer of 1931. People: Harold S. DyerSearch the index · Names in Brick and Stone: Hill Hall · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 14, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1930, p. 1
5. December 15, 1930 Community Chorus sings the Messiah for the relief of the county's poor Harold S. Dyer led the Community Chorus of about 100 voices, with a University orchestra and visiting soloists, in Handel's 'Messiah' in the new music auditorium. The net receipts went to the fund for relief of the unemployed and the poor in Orange County. People: Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1931, p. 2
6. by December 12, 1930 Chime and clock are ordered for the Morehead-Patterson tower John Motley Morehead arranged with the Meneely Bell Company of Troy, New York, for a chime of twelve bells modeled on the one at West Point, and the contract for the tower clock was let to the Howard Clock Company. McKim, Mead and White were drawing the plans, with dedication set for Thanksgiving Day 1931. People: Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1930, p. 1
7. September 14, 1931 Chester Meneely tests the new Morehead-Patterson chime as the village hears its bells Chester Meneely of the Troy, New York, bell founders spent the day adjusting the twelve-bell chime in the new Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower, and the village heard the bells as he pressed the levers of the console. No tunes were to be played until the dedication on Thanksgiving Day. People: Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1931, p. 1
8. by October 9, 1931 The University starts an Institute of Folk Music under Harold S. Dyer and Lamar Stringfield The University organized an Institute of Folk Music to do for native music what the Carolina Playmakers had done for folk drama, with music department head Harold S. Dyer as director and the composer and flutist Lamar Stringfield as research associate. Its aims were a laboratory for young composers, performance of their work by a chamber orchestra, and chamber concerts. People: Lamar Stringfield, Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1931, p. 2
9. May 22, 1932 Harold S. Dyer conducts Elijah, the first choral work on the University's commencement program On the Sunday evening of commencement week a chorus of about seventy-five voices sang Mendelssohn's Elijah under Harold S. Dyer in Hill Music Hall. The Chapel Hill Weekly wrote a year later that this was the first time a major choral performance had been part of commencement, and it was repeated in 1933.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 20, 1932, p. 1
10. February 27, 1933 Fritz Kreisler plays to a packed house in Chapel Hill The violinist Fritz Kreisler gave a recital in Chapel Hill on the evening of Monday, February 27, 1933. With the balcony sold out days before, music department head Harold S. Dyer had arranged with Kreisler to put chairs on the stage for the overflow.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 24, 1933, p. 1 (Stage Seats, If Needed)
11. by September 22, 1933 T. Smith McCorkle becomes acting head of the University music department After Harold S. Dyer resigned as head of the music department, violinist and band director T. Smith McCorkle, eight years on the faculty, was appointed acting head, and Russell M. Grumman succeeded Dyer as chairman of the Institute of Folk Music. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 22, 1933, p. 1