Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, will celebrate its sixty-first anniversary this year. This seems an appropriate time to review the garden’s history, historical analysis, and look forward to the future.

In Ole Bull Returns to Pennsylvania, Inez Bull — a descendant of the noted Norwegian — tells the true story of his “New Norway” project and pictures her own colorful career as a concert artist and music teacher on five continents.

It is generally recognized that the cultural arts must assume their own importance. For there are in the front rank of our composers men who possessed first-rate compositional techniques. Such was the case of Percy Aldridge Grainger.

One of the most important figures in American music as concert artist, in radio programs, and in the field of musical pedagogy is the name of the President of The Juilliard School of Music, Ernest Hutcheson.

This richly detailed biography–written by a descendant of the violinist, and an internationally famous musician and educator in her own right–presents a vivid portrait of the brilliant and compassionate man during his years in America.