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By
Jack O'Connell
 Remembering J.
Edward Bouvier
For 31 years, the name "J. Edward
Bouvier" was synonymous with music at Holy Cross. A graduate
of the New England Conservatory of Music, Bouvier was a pioneering
figure in the world of college glee clubs. From 1918 to 1924,
he was music director at Clark University. In 1920, he became
director of the Holy Cross glee club and, later, director
of the College's orchestra and band. At various times during
his tenure at Holy Cross, he also served as director of music
at Fitchburg (Mass.) High School and Regis College in Weston.
It was once estimated that more than 30,000 men and women
received music instruction from Bouvier.
Recalled as a man of great enthusiasm and kindness, Bouvier was born in Swanzey,
N.H. He returned to his hometown after his retirement and served eight years
in the New Hampshire legislature as representative for the district of Swanzey.
When he founded his first Holy Cross glee club in 1921, he had 12 students
under his direction. Upon his retirement, there were 300 students active in
the College's music clubs. On Dec. 18, 1918, Bouvier conducted a chorus of
250,000 people in the national anthem on the mall behind the White House to
commemorate the end of World War I.
In October 1969, the music rehearsal rooms on the fifth floor of the Hogan
Campus Center were dedicated to Bouvier and a bronze plaque was installed by
the entrance door. The plaque read, "Dedicated to J. Edward Bouvier, Director
of Holy Cross Musical Clubs - Glee Club, Band, Philharmonic Orchestra - 1921-1951.
Conductor for 1,000 performances of Holy Cross Musical Organizations."
Bouvier died on Dec. 15, 1970.
Harpsichords & Chili:
Rev. Thomas D. Culley, S.J.
The Rev. Tom Culley, S.J., is an
Oklahoma native who studied piano at the Juilliard School
of Music. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1950 and received
his bachelor of music degree from Loyola University in New
Orleans. In 1956, he graduated from Spring Hill College in
Mobile, Ala., with a degree in Latin. But music was his first
love and he received a doctorate in music from Harvard in
1966. A Rome Prize Fellow in Musicology at the American Academy
in Rome, Culley was also the recipient of the Huntington
Beebe Award and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. He taught
at Harvard and Brown before coming to Holy Cross.
A scholar who published many articles on the Jesuits' contribution to music
development, Culley's love of music informed his philosophy of education. He
once said in an interview with the Sunday Telegram, "The study of music
provides a comprehension of the beautiful and the interesting. It also supplies
an essential ingredient to the study of culture itself."
At one time, Culley was one of only three Jesuits worldwide
with doctorates in music. He was a founder of the Jesuit Institute of the Arts,
a gathering
of Jesuit musicians, artists, and painters from around the world.
A popular teacher during the 1970s, his favorite instrument
was the harpsichord, though some of his students remember him equally well for
his homemade chili.
Today, Culley is musicologist-in-residence at the Ignatius
Residence in New Orleans, La.
Remembering Suzanna
Waldbauer
Suzanna
Waldbauer came to Holy Cross to teach music in 1970 and inspired
scores of students
over the next 20 years. A native of Devavanya, Hungary, Waldbauer
studied at the National Conservatory of Music and graduated
from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, both in Budapest.
After graduation, she studied with Hungarian composers Zoltan
Kodaly and Leo Weiner. In 1947, she left Hungary and moved
to Mexico where she supported herself by playing and teaching
piano.
After arriving in the United States, she earned a master's degree in music
from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. An accomplished performer
of music for two pianos as well as the mixed chamber music repertoire, Waldbauer
gave concerts all over New England, including appearances as a soloist with
the Vermont Symphony.
An influential teacher and music department chair at Holy Cross, she
offered courses in music history, introductory structure of music, and keyboard
music. Waldbauer's favorite composer was Beethoven. "He catches the imagination
of everyone," she once said, "young and old, musician and non-musician." She
died on March 11, 1991. The Suzanna Waldbauer Seminar Room is located in the
Brooks Concert Hall.
"Who Played the
Fieldhouse?"
At the risk of starting an Abbott & Costello routine,
the answer is "Yes, they did." In 1970, sometime around
the release of Tommy, the band came to Mount St. James
and found the kids were all right. The following isn't
a definitive list, but we've tried to put together a chronology
of some of the musical acts that have performed at Holy
Cross. Feel free to e-mail us with info on any acts we
missed.
1998: L.L. Cool J.
1997: G-love and the Special Sauce, KRS One, Bare Naked Ladies
1996: Might Mighty Bostones, The Roots
1996: The Fugees, Gus, the Bogmen
1995: The Samples, The Commitments
1994: Arrested Development
1993: The Smithereens
1992: Ocean Blue
1991: Meatloaf
1990: Ziggy Marley
1989: Kool and the Gang
1988: The Hooters
1987: The Squeeze
1984: The Lines
1983: Island Side Steel
1982: Tom Noonan and the Blowouts
1981: Tumbleweed Connection
1980: Rick Derringer
1979: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
1978: Bonnie Raitt
1977: Pousette-Dart Band, George Benson
1976: Livingston Taylor
1975: America, Hot Tuna
1974: Aerosmith
1973: Jesse Collin Young
1972: J. Giels Band
1971: Sea Train
1970: The Who
1969: Tom Rush
1968: Ray Charles
1967: Chuck Berry, Barbarians, Ronettes, Wilson Pickett
1966: King's Four
1965: Lionel Hampton
1964: Duke Ellington
1963: Count Basie and his Orchestra
1961: Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
1960: Glenn Miller Band
1959: The Urbie Green Orchestra
1958: Buddy Morrow and Band
1957: Elliot Lawrence and Orchestra
1956: Ray Eberle Orchestra
1955: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
1954: Richard Hayman and Orchestra
1953: Charlie Spivak and Orchestra
1952: Art Mooney
1951: Freddie Martin and Orchestra
1950: Hal McIntyre and Band
1949: Elliot Lawrence and Orchestra
1948: Fred Guerra's Orchestra
1947: Sam Donahue and Orchestra
1946: Johnny Newton and Orchestra
1944: Gene Carlson's Orchestra
1943: Eddie O'Hearn and Orchestra
1942: Shep Fields and Orchestra
1941: Jerry Wald
1940: Bobby Byrne and Orchestra
1939: Glenn Miller Band
1938: Woody Herman and Frank Dailey
1936: Joe Venuti and Band
1935: Benny Goodman and Band
1934: Claude Hopkins and Band
1933: Dol Brissette and Orchestra
1932: Smith Ballew
1930: Leo Riceman
1928: Zev Confrey
1927: Jaques Renard and Lido Venice Orchestra
1926: Jack Schildkret's Orchestra
1925: Eddie Wittstein and Band
1924: Morey Pearl and His Music Box Orchestra
1923: Bert Lowe's Novelty Orchestra
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