{"id":246156,"date":"2025-09-22T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:02:11","slug":"historical-society-of-pennsylvania-absorbs-150-years-of-uarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246156\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Society of Pennsylvania absorbs 150 years of UArts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the institutions that would become UArts developed, they absorbed arts organizations to turn them into academic departments.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/judith-jamison-dance-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Dance Academy<\/a>, for example, was founded by Nadia Chilkovsky in 1944. In 1977, it was absorbed into the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts. The PCPA then merged with the Philadelphia College of the Arts in 1985, which became UArts in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald said even the Philadelphia Orchestra is historically connected to UArts, whose music department\u2019s roots went\u00a0back to the city\u2019s 19th-century music schools, the Philadelphia Musical Academy, founded in 1870, and the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, founded in 1877. They were competitors until merging in 1962, and later became UArts\u2019 music department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/encore-series-philadelphia-orchestra-end-lawsuits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Orchestra<\/a> wasn\u2019t founded until 1900,\u201d MacDonald said. \u201cA number of its members came from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, who had been around for 30 years before the orchestra was founded.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, there\u2019s just connections, connections, connections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 9, HSP\u00a0will host an open house for former UArts students and faculty, as well as the general public, to show off selections from the archive. The event will include talks, including by Sara MacDonald, and performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the institutions that would become UArts developed, they absorbed arts organizations to turn them into academic departments.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,32348,122342,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,70224,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-246156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-archives","10":"tag-historical-society-of-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-university-of-the-arts","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115247614950226059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}