Hartt 100 Celebration

1902 Julius Hartt writes to his wife (Jennie) requesting that she and their children come to Europe as he studies. From my point of view, I am convinced that it is our only wise course for you and the family to come over here as soon as spring opens up and arrangements can be made there. It is wrong in principle for the husband to have everything in the way of privileges and fine friends and the wife nothing; and there is no reason why such a family should be a happy one; and every reason to expect that the children in it are going to suffer…as a consequence... I am by nature too unselfish to my having things which I cannot share with those whom I love... And I do love my wife as I never loved anyone unless it is my babies and I can't bear to go on in this selfish way for two years.

1912 Morris Perlmutter makes his professional piano debut at Hartford’s Unity Hall on Pratt Street. 1916 “My friend Hartt has a young pupil of 21 years who is extraordinary as a musician and pianist. …I am convinced he is a real genius…This boy, who in 3 days learns by heart a whole Brahms sonata, is a modest and simple boy—humble and without a shadow of pretension. He does not enthuse and does not live except under the inspiration of music.” Ernest Bloch

1914 Julius Hartt becomes Music Editor for the Hartford Times 1917-18 Education is a continuous process. Culture is a progressive study. It admits of no standstill. It is a habit of mind, not an inert accumulation of knowledge. And when it ceases to progress it really ceases to exist. No one can study music to much purpose if he shuts himself up to the study of music exclusively. It is at this point that so many would-be-musicians fall down. Julius Hartt, Letters of a Musician, “Letter to a Young Lady,” 1918

1918 Morris Perlmutter promoted to Band Sergeant

1919 The Julius Hartt, Moshe Paranov and Associated Teachers Music School established at Hartt’s home at 188 Sigourney Street. Ernest Bloch moves next door to the seminary.