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Benjamin, Sallie, and the Shepherd School of Music by Anne Schnoebelen Joseph and Idea Kirkland Mullen Emerita Professor of Music The Cornerstone WINTER/SPRING 2007 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE RICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 11, NO. 3 Benjamin, Sallie, and the Shepherd School of Music By Anne Schnoebelen Joseph and Idea Kirkland Mullen Emerita Professor of Music Those who thrill to the splendid concerts and “When I was a tiny tot there is a tradition recitals presented by faculty and students of that I ran and got Grandfather Shepherd my the Shepherd School of Music might baby pillow as I saw him dozing in the wonder about its name, origins and early chair. It is a gratifying thought that I history before it became one of the could do something for him who jewels in Rice’s crown. Due to the bestowed so many benefits on me.And munificence of the Shepherd family, of on this same visit to us at Palmya, which Benjamin A. Shepherd was the Virginia, I played for him on my toy patriarch, and the desire of his musical piano. He is said to have remarked, granddaughter Sallie Shepherd Perkins ‘that child has got to go to Leipsic!’” to honor him, Rice University now has (No doubt his reference was to Leipzig’s one of the leading music schools in the famous Hochschule fur Musik founded nation. by Mendelssohn in 1843, one of the Benjamin Armistead Shepherd, according leading music conservatories of the late 19th to a document titled “The Transplanted century.) Virginian” written by Sallie Shepherd Sallie Shepherd Perkins, 1940 Sallie, however, did not go to Perkins, was born May 14, 1814 at Leipzig, but did graduate in music from “Laughton,” Fluvanna County,Virginia. He was next to Hollins College in Virginia, majoring in piano studies. the youngest in a family of fourteen children. His Anglo- Music was a large part of her entire life. She presided over Saxon ancestors had been given large grants of land by the Music Clubs of Virginia for three years, 1922-25, and the Crown, but the land was poor and the family fortunes became a leader in the National Federation of Music were thus diminished. Benjamin left Virginia in 1833 to Clubs. Her musical talent found its greatest expression in seek other opportunities, stopping for a time in Nashville her gift to Rice University (then Rice Institute) in 1950 and then New Orleans. He arrived in Galveston in 1830, for a school of music which she called “purely a product where he met and married Mary Hobson of Tennessee. In of my own mind and heart—the healing powers of music 1941 the couple established themselves in Houston where [are] so much needed in this troubled world and I Benjamin became one of the city’s founding fathers, and earnestly hope our Southland will be enriched when my friend of General Sam Houston. Recognized as the dream becomes a reality.”The Shepherd School of Music pioneer banker of Texas,he was the founder of the First was “dedicated to the Glory of God and in memory of National Bank in Houston. my grandfather and my branch of his family.” A touching story from this same document is worth The initial gift of Sallie Shepherd Perkins and her quoting in full because it indicates the innate love of husband, Malcolm W.Perkins was $350,000, made on music in the Shepherd family: Continued on page 3 1 The Rice IN THIS ISSUE Historical Society Benjamin, Sallie, and the Shepherd School of Music . 1 Interview with Samuel Jones . 4 PURPOSE To collect and preserve for the future the history of Rice University From the Archives . 16 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2006–2007 OFFICERS Lee Pecht President Ann Patton Greene Vice-President Al Woelfel Treasurer Helen Toombs Recording Secretary Nancy Burch Corresponding Secretary Alice Pratt Brown Hall BOARD Bill Barnett ’55 Join the Rice Historical Society Alan Bath (Ph.D. ’95) Art Bleimeyer ’49 OR GIVE A GIFT MEMBERSHIP TO A FRIEND Denise Fischer ’73 Nancy Flatt ’69 Newsletter Ⅲ Projects Ⅲ Programs Ⅲ Special Events Ⅲ Field Trips Stephen Fox ’73 One-year membership categories: $25, $50, $100, or other gift John Gladu Vivek Gopalan ’07 Send name, address, telephone number, and payment to: Ann Patton Greene ’71 The Rice Historical Society—MS 43 Ed Harris ’82 Neal Heaps ’42 Rice University Melissa Kean (MA ’96, Ph.D. ’00) P.O. 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Rice alumni and friends are encouraged to Our archives are not classified.We are seeking artifacts you may have preserved, then contribute photographs and remembrances of hidden away, since your years at Rice. historical interest that may be used in future issues of The Cornerstone. Items cannot If you would like to give that hat or banner or dance card to the Rice Historical Society to be returned and will be donated to our be preserved at the Woodson Research Center or in the RHS archive collection, please archival collection. contact Joyce Nagle, RHS archivist, at 713-782-0703. Newsletter designed by Starfall Graphics. 2 Continued from page 1 Cathedral, was brought to Rice in 1953 to oversee the development of what was then the Department of Music, December 2, 1950. In the Deed of Gift she acknowledges offering some courses in music history and theory and her debt to her grandfather, grateful for his encouraging establishing two glee clubs—one for men and one for her in the study of music.“It seems to me fitting, women.Ann Holmes, Fine Arts Editor for the Houston therefore, that I should establish this School of Music at Chronicle wrote on March 24, 1954,“Mr. Hall’s lectures Houston,” where her grandfather reared his family and on music avoid that cliché, that dilettante aspect called resided until his death. Furthermore,“It also seems to me ‘appreciation.’This so often implies an outside coating of fitting that the buildings which house this school should ‘culture’ and smattering of ignorance.The Rice music perpetuate in Houston the early colonial type of lectures, by contrast, approach the subject scientifically. It architecture found in Virginia, as a reminder of this and is believed that if the minds of these young scholars may other sons of the Old Dominion who contributed much be led to understand the architectural structures, the to the development of Texas.I, therefore, direct that said scientific theories of music, real appreciation follows.”This school should be housed in a group of buildings of the was a philosophy that would characterize the school later early colonial type of architecture, two of which shall be on as well. modeled, respectively, after Crozet House, an historical In 1962, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins made an additional gift dwelling in downtown Richmond,Virginia, and the to the Shepherd School endowment of some property on house I own at 2609 Monument Avenue in Richmond, Calhoun Avenue between Travis and Milam.The gift Virginia, which is a perfect example of early Georgian seems to have inspired serious discussion about the nature architecture.” of the Shepherd School and its location on the campus. However, evidently being a practical woman, she goes Chancellor Carey Croneis wrote a draft of suggested on to say,“I fully realize, however, that the style and proposals for the school dated April 10, 1962, based on architecture of the buildings of this School must be suggestions supplied by Dean W.H.Masterson and adapted to that of the other buildings located and those Professor Hall.“It is clear to us that…we should model planned on the campus of the Institute, and I leave the the Shepherd School after the Yale School of Music.That final determination of this…to the Trustees of the is, we probably should not go into the applied music field Institute, having full confidence that they will observe my in any very extensive fashion. Most of our music students wishes as far as practical.” She also required that any will, of course, possess some instrumental or vocal design plans be shown to her or her surviving relatives, aptitudes, and a certain amount of instruction will be that recognition be given to the interest in music of required in those fields. Much, if not most of the training herself and her husband, and that a memorial be desired, however, probably could be provided established to her grandparents, Benjamin Armistead advantageously through a cooperative arrangement with Shepherd and Mary Hobson Shepherd. the University of Houston, which does have a The stipulation for colonial architecture may come as ‘professional’ school of music.”Various other questions a surprise to those who have experienced the magnificent were raised in this document, including the amount of building designed by Ricardo Bofill, dedicated on endowment needed before erection of a building, the size October 4, 1991, forty-one years after the original gift of the faculty, whether to have one building or two was made. But it was too soon in 1950 to be concerned separate buildings, one for “theory” and the other for about the style of the buildings.
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