Patrick S. Gilmore Society

Organization

Dates

Usage: 1968 or 1969 - approximately 2005

Historical Note

The Patrick S. Gilmore Society was founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Michael Cummings in 1968 or 1969. Dedicated to commemorating the accomplishments of P.S. Gilmore and encouraging community band music, the Society organized annual band concerts on Boston City Hall Plaza and the Charles River Esplanade. In 1992, on the centennial of P.S. Gilmore's death, the Society erected a monument at his gravesite in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York. Between 1993 and 2002, the Society hosted popular band concerts each summer on the Boston Esplanade, where community bands from throughout New England came to perform. The Society appears to have ceased activities as Cummings's health declined before his death in 2011.

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier

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Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Michael Cummings collection of P.S. Gilmore

Collection

Identifier: IM-M135-2004

Abstract Collection assembled by Michael Cummings that documenting the music career of nineteenth-century American band conductor and composer P.S. Gilmore, as well as the activities of the twentieth-century Patrick S. Gilmore Society, which Cummings founded. Two events coordinated by Gilmore—the National Peace Jubilee of 1869 and the World's Peace Jubilee of 1872—are highlighted through programs, lithographs, tickets, medals, and bookmarks. Correspondence, photographs, and clippings are also...

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1850 - 2004