Residence of David Cowee, Jr., on Troy’s Washington Park, one of the private homes engaged for Dr. J.Albert Jeffery’s student recitals and the birthplace of The Chromatic Club. It was David Cowee, Jr. who founded the concert series as we know it today.		A Tradition of Excellence From the first concerts or ‘musicales’, in private homes to the concert series of today, the aim of ‘Chromatics’ has been to bring musical programs of the highest caliber for the enjoyment of local audiences. Organized in 1894 by students of Troy music teacher J. Albert Jeffery, The Chromatic Club presented its first concert to feature an artist of world renown (Edward A. MacDowell) in February of 1895. It was an enormous success and inspired the continuing commitment to present the finest artists of their time. This collection pictures a selection from the scores of outstanding artists who have appeared at the Music Hall presented by Troy Chromatic Concerts and the season(s) during which they appeared.
Edward A. MacDowell Pianist and Composer 1894/95	Ernestine Schumann-Heink Mezzo-Soprano 1900/01, 1903/04, 1906/07	Fritz Kreisler Violinist and Composer 1900/01, 1916/17, 1929/30	Ernst von Dohnanyi Pianist and Composer 1900/01	Lillian Nordica Soprano 1901/02, 1903/04
Marcella Sembrich Soprano 1902/03	Josef Lhévinne Pianist 1906/07, 1909/10	Josef Hofmann Pianist 1907/08, 1913/14, 1918/19, 1936/37, 1941/42	John McCormack Tenor 1910/11	Ossip Gabrilowitsch Pianist & Conductor Detroit Symphony 1916/17, 1920/21, 1929/30, 1933/34
Sergei Rachmaninoff Pianist & Composer 1919/20, 1932/33	Dame Myra Hess Pianist 1922/23, 1934/35	Ignace Jan Paderewski Pianist & Composer 1922/23, 1927/28	Serge Koussevitzky Conductor Boston Symphony 1924/25	Rosa Ponselle Soprano 1926/27, 1927/28
Fritz Reiner Conductor Cincinnati Orchestra & Pittsburgh Symphony 1927/28, 1942/43, 1943/44, 1944/45	Jascha Heifetz Violinist 1928/29	Vladimir Horowitz Pianist 1929/30	Lotte Lehmann Soprano 1932/33	Artur Rodzinski Conductor Cleveland Orchestra 1934/35, 1935/36, 1938/39, 1939/40, 1940/41, 1941/42
Marian Anderson Contralto 1936/37	Nathan Milstein Violinist 1936/37	Yehudi Menuhin Violinist 1940/41	Rudolf Serkin Pianist 1943/44	Artur Rubinstein Pianist 1945/46
Jussi Bjoerling Tenor 1946/47	George Szell Conductor Cleveland Orchestra 1946/47, 1947/48, 1948/49, 1949/50, 1950/51, 1953/54, 1954/55, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1960/61, 1962/63	Erich Leinsdorf Conductor Rochester Philharmonic 1947/48, 1949/50, 1952/53	Bidù Sayão Soprano 1951/52	Byron Janis Pianist 1951/52, 1956/57
William Warfield Bass-Baritone 1952/53	Leontyne Price Soprano 1956/57	Maureen Forrester Contralto 1957/58	Michael Tilson Thomas Conductor Buffalo Philharmonic 1974/75, 1976/77	David Zinman Conductor Rochester Philharmonic 1976/77, 1978/79, 1981/82, 1983/84
Pinchas Zukerman Violinist 1981/82	Radu Lupu Pianist 1981/82	Yo-Yo Ma Cellist 1982/83	Kathleen Battle Soprano 1983/84, 1986/87	Young Uck Kim Violinist 1984/85, 1989/90
Garrick Ohlsson Pianist 1990/91, 1996/97	Julian Bream Guitarist-Lutenist 1991/92, 1996/97	André Watts Pianist 1996/97	Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 1996/97, 2001/02, 2002/03	Gil Shaham Violinist 1998/99
Andrey Boreyko Conductor Russian National Orchestra, 1999/00 Czech Philharmonic, 2003/04 Hamburg Symphony, 2006/07	Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Violinist 2000/01	Osmo Vänskä Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony 2000/01	Leila Josefowitcz Violinist 2004/05	Valery Gergiev Conductor Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre 2005/06
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