Haddon Hall Research Articles

William Byrd’s Come, woeful Orpheus in context: motion as visual and musical affect

Abstract Looking at William Byrd’s consort song Come, woeful Orpheus (1611) and the Orpheus overmantel at Haddon Hall (Derbyshire), this article imagines how music and visual culture provided reciprocal somatic and symbolic cues within the domestic sphere. Using Richard Haydock’s Tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge (1598), it considers how the Orpheus trope, cogitated and embodied through visual and musical media, could be used to produced ‘fellow feeling’ and affect through ‘motion’. ‘Motion’ was not only fundamental to early modern theories of affective communication but was thought to provide the spark of life that aided interpersonal connection. This research explores the shared language between the theoretical and affective aspects of music and art in early modern England, stemming from classical sources on decorum and persuasive oration, to provide a more nuanced understanding of contemporary experiences of recreational music-making. I argue that the embodied and visual contributions of the performers are crucial to understanding Byrd’s song, as early modern approaches to motion and affect relied upon the body and voice, and were best communicated through sight and sound.

Mars Braciaca (RIB 278) at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

Braciaca, on an altar to Mars at Haddon Hall (near Bakewell, in the north Midlands of England), has been related to Welsh brag 'malt' and explained as 'he of (divine) intoxication'. Yet this is hard to see, and a new explanation from Welsh bragad 'army, host; battle' seems preferable. It fits the God of War better than 'malt' does (a product more apt for Bacchus than Mars). If so, Braciaca 'of the hosts' will be one of many terms from Roman Britain that Welsh (and related languages) can explain. To show this, we first consider Celtic attitudes to Mars, and then go on to brag and its cognates.

Public and Private: The Late Medieval Wall Paintings of Haddon Hall Chapel, Derbyshire

This paper focuses on the mural scheme executed in Haddon Hall Chapel shortly after 1427 for Sir Richard Vernon. It argues that at that time the chapel was also being used as a parish church, and that the paintings were therefore both an expression of private devotion and a public statement. This is reflected in their subject matter, which combines themes associated with popular beliefs, the public persona of the Hall's owner and the Vernon family's personal devotions. The remarkable inventiveness and complexity of the iconography is matched by the exceptionally sophisticated style of the paintings. Attention is also given to part of the decoration previously thought to be contemporary with this fifteenth-century scheme but for which an early sixteenth-century date is now proposed on the basis of stylistic and other evidence.

The challenge of balancing scientific discovery and translation.

November 2002 marked the 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association (AHA), a milestone that permits us to contemplate the remarkably rich heritage of the Association’s scientific meetings. The first Scientific Sessions were organized by a small group of visionary physicians at Haddon Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the afternoon of May 26, 1925 (Figure 1). The fledgling AHA was less than a year old. Presiding over the sessions were the Association’s four officers: Lewis A. Conner, Robert Halsey, James B. Herrick, and Paul Dudley White. Each played major roles in the founding of the AHA, and each served a term as its President. Little did they anticipate that their meeting of a few hundred people would grow to become — as it has over the past several decades — the world’s preeminent meeting for cardiovascular science. Figure 1. Cover of the program of the American Heart Association’s first Scientific Sessions, May 26, 1925. The scientific and public health challenges facing the Association in its first decade were formidable, as reflected in the first edition of Dr White’s 1931 textbook, Heart Disease .1 As noted by Dr W. Bruce Fye in his history of American cardiology,2 Dr White wrote that “treating hypertension is a difficult and almost hopeless task;” that “there is no specific treatment for coronary artery disease;” and that “there is no treatment for aortic valve disease” and “no specific treatment for mitral valve disease.” Clearly, there was much work to be done. The extraordinary advances in basic science, epidemiology, diagnostic techniques, surgical procedures, and pharmaceutical development that have occurred in the past seven decades and their impact on human lives are unparalleled in human history. These remarkable advances were chronicled each year in the Scientific Sessions and in the scientific journals of …

A bridge to the past

Journal Article A bridge to the past: Investigating an old viol bridge at Haddon Hall Get access Michael Fleming Michael Fleming Michael Fleming is a luthier who specializes in making English viols and bows. He is chairman of the Viola da Gamba Society and is currently completing a doctoral thesis at the Open University on the design of English viols, c.1580–1660. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, May 1999, Pages 235–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/XXVII.2.235 Published: 01 May 1999

A bridge to the past: investigating an old viol bridge at Haddon Hall

A bridge to the past: investigating an old viol bridge at Haddon Hall

A Medieval Choirstall Desk-End at Haddon Hall: The Fox-Bishop and the Geese-Hangmen

AbstractAn unprovenanced fragment of wood sculpture from Haddon Hall is shown to be a medieval desk-end of special iconographical and sculptural interest. Probably dating from shortly after the 1380s, it incorporates one of the earliest known examples of the fox-as-bishop sequence of scenes in European woodwork, as well as the earliest extant English vernacular inscription in woodwork.

Arthur Sullivan, Haddon Hall, and the Iconic Mode

1 COMPAKATIVE i ama Volume 22Spring 1988Number 1 Arthur Sullivan, Haddon HaIl9 and the Iconic Mode t Michael Beckerman In 1892 Arthur Sullivan without Gilbert, and with Sydney Grundy, offered the English public an "Original Light English Opera," entitled Haddon Hall,I in what had become the Savoy tradition. Although its eventual run of 214 performances was far less spectacular than that of Pinafore, Patience, or The Mikado, the work must be counted a popular and critical success.2 The reviewer for The Daily Telegraph on 26 September 1892 said that "the music of Haddon Hall remains among the best that bears Sir Arthur's name," while the usually acerbic Shaw later waxed almost ecstatic: "I contend that Savoy opera is a genre in itself; and that Haddon Hall is the highest and most consistent expression it has yet attained."3 This verdict has been sustained by numerous subsequent critics, who have especially noted that the musical score often rivals, and even surpasses, the ever-popular Gilbert and Sullivan canon.4 t My father, Bernard Beckerman, died in October 1985. This study is dedicated to his memory. MICHAEL BECKERMAN, Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University , is co-founder and president of the Czechoslovak Music Society. He has recently completed a book on Janácek's theoretical works and is editing a collection of essays on Amadeus. 2 Comparative Drama Despite such critical acclaim, however, Haddon Hall has failed to recapture the stage in spite of several revivals. Most simply blame Grundy's libretto. Jane Stedman has recently criticized Grundy's style in comparison with Gilbert's and has claimed that, although some of Sullivan's librettists were "markedly successful in writing non-musical plays, none gave Sullivan what Gilbert's libretti gave him."5 From the very beginning The Daily Telegraph, which had praised Sullivan's music so highly, took Grundy to task: "The great weakness of the libretto ... is the dramatic insignificance of the main characters" (26 September 1892), while the Pall Mall Budget on 29 September insisted that the work had "a want of balance in the idea—a structural deficiency which it is very hard to forgive." Shaw made his Haddon Hall review a vehicle to derogate the absent Gilbert, "whose great fault was that he began and ended with himself; however, though he attributed the work's success to "the critical insight of Mr. Grundy," even he found segments of the libretto quite clumsy. For example, Shaw asserted that "Mr. Grundy's treatment of the tempting theme of Social Purityism is cheap and witless."6 Perhaps Nigel Burton reflects the prevailing modern view when he says that Haddon Hall "is saddled with an impossible libretto by Sydney Grundy, but merits a full recording on account of its considerable quantity of good music."7 While it is not my intention to dispute previous critical evaluations of Grundy's libretto, it is not clear that they illuminate the central questions relating to the work. Though much of the attack on Grundy is based on an actual or implied comparison with Gilbert, critics seem universally to be unaware that, questions of quality aside, the two are utterly dissimilar dramatists working in radically different dramatic modes. Indeed , I hope to show that Haddon HaIFs success is a direct result of the fact that Sydney Grundy, certain flaws in his libretto notwithstanding, gave Arthur Sullivan precisely what he wanted. We often use the term 'drama' as if it were synonymous with conflict. Thus what we may identify as the dialectic mode of dramatic presentation is so commonplace that we might mistakenly assume it to be the central ingredient of all types of theatrical performance.8 In its purest state the dialectic mode presents eternal conflicts of the human condition covered by the skin of conventional plot and design. Hamlet is a useful Michael Beckerman3 example of this mode since it stages not only the rivalry between the guilt-ridden schemer and the tormented prince—evenly matched rivals—but Hamlet's internal struggle as well. In this dialectic mode, the future is uncertain: the audience thus becomes conscious of movement towards a goal, of passage through time. Yet not all types...

Haddon Hall gardens: facts and fancies

Abstract For two centuries historians have written volumes on the architecture and inhabitants of Haddon Hall. Everything about the house has been studied in great detail—everything, that is, except the gardens. These have received scant attention and in much early writing are treated dismissively, as if they had existed unchanged throughout the eight centuries of the Hall's existence. It took the romantic legend of Dorothy Vernon's escape through the gardens to elope with John Manners, a legend concocted in the early nineteenth century, to focus attention upon the gardens. Only then did they begin to be considered as a creation as fine as the house and in architectural unison with it.

Caveat Emptor

FICTION CAVEAT EMPTOR / Barry Targati JOEY ROGOVIN SWUNG in and out of the way of the hard platoon marching like hammers on the Boardwalk. Like one more in the vast undulant sheet of searching pigeons, he would move aside for the rectangle of men and then fold back in the wake behind them. And like the pigeons, he was a gleaner too. At fifteen, unsure of the shape of irony, yet he responded to the fact of it: heavy armies might trample down the golden fields and destroy Empire, but along the way they also smashed it into the little pieces manageable by small scavengers. What Joey Rogovin in his own lifetime could never have hoped to share in now fell easily to his hand and wit, and he battened upon his luck and opportunity, for this was war. Not that the Boardwalk was a golden grain field, not that Atlantic City was that sort of Empire. Rather, it had suddenly become the largest military training camp in the world. By the potent magic of Supreme decree, it had been changed in a few months from the Queen of Resorts to the King of Armories. From December 1941 to the following April 1942, the grand hotels—the Haddon Hall, the Traymore, the Dennis, the Marlborough-Blenheim, the Shelborne, the Breakers, and all the rest—as well as every modest sidestreet inn and even some of the larger rooming houses—were converted to barracks. Nothing else in America was so ready-made, so in place, so quickly adaptable in 1941 to such a purpose as was Atlantic City. Partitions divided space to multiply it. The magnificent suites such as that on the fifteenth floor of the Ritz-Carlton high over the grey-green Atlantic of the south Jersey shore, that which even through the recent summer past had sheltered variously the Ludens of the Luden cough drop fortune; the Clothiers from Ardmore, Pennsylvania; the entourage of the mobster Louis "Thumbs" Mangore—that suite now housed forty common men. And now with no splendid view. All the windows facing the sea were blacked out, darkened against the lurking eye of the maurauding enemy U-boats, steel sharks waiting out in the ship channel not more than a dozen miles off shore. Partitions were erected or walls were ripped out, toilet facilities were expanded, shifted, or built. Stairwells and fire escapes repaired, evacuation plans made, elevator cables restrung—there were details. But in the main nothing could have been easier than this transfiguration . The large kitchens were ready, the crystal chandeliered dining rooms were turned into mess halls, the parquet ballrooms cleared for calisthenics when it rained. And of course there was the perfect drill field—the wide, substantial, flat, clean, resilient, and nearly endless The Missouri Review · 85 Boardwalk. AU day from reveille to retreat the khaki men would drill, marching north in the inland lane, south on the seaside. Between each element sufficient space was left, a hundred yards or sometimes two hundred, for the troops to be wheeled about and wheeled again, to be moved from ranks into files and back, to be dressed right, to parade rest. Order, containment—the discipline upon which unquestioned response in battle depended—was established here. "Companeeeeeee. . .halt!" the sergeant would call. "Take ten. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Don't leave no butts." Then it was time for Joey Rogovin. The men on their ten minute break could move about but only within the loose shape of the unit. No one could walk back a half a block to a Boardwalk store to buy a coke or a hot dog or gum or cigarettes. Even if they were on the beach side of the Boardwalk and the company had chanced to halt across from a store, they could not cross to the opposite side. And along much of the Boardwalk where the men drilled, that part of the Boardwalk which before December had been an elegant promenade of elegant shops (Wing Fat's oriental knick knacks in jade) and auction galleries (Lloyd's for the finest lace, Boughton's for Wedgewood and Louis Quatorze chairs), along this stretch there were no hot...

A Carved Wooden Figure at Haddon Hall

A Carved Wooden Figure at Haddon Hall

Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Inc.

The scientific sessions of the 52d Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Inc., will be held at Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on April 7–9, 1961. The following revised regulations concerning abstracts and presentation of papers have been approved by the Board of Directors. All abstracts of papers that are submitted in conformity with the regulations and are considered of acceptable quality by the Program Committee will be published in the Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research . No abstract of a paper accepted by the Program Committee can be withdrawn from publication or altered in composition by the author. Authors must accept sole responsibility for their statements and should exercise great care in the editorial preparation of their abstracts. Reprints of abstracts will not be available from the publisher. Those papers that are selected for oral presentation at the meeting will have their titles and authors printed in the Program; no “read by title” listings will be made.

American Society for Clinical Nutrition

Abstract The American Society for Clinical Nutrition is sponsoring a symposium at their annual meeting in Atlantic City in the Viking Room of the Chalfonte Haddon Hall on Saturday,April 28, 1973, at 8 a.m. Dr. Robert A. Good and Dr. Joseph J. Vitate are chairing this symposium and have put together an extremely interesting program. Those who customarily attend the clinical meetings in Atlantic City may wish to come a day early in order to attend this symposium. Nutrition and Immunology Co-Chairmen: Robert A. Good, Ph.D., M.D. Joseph J. Vitale, Sc.D., M.D. Introduction: Nutritional Status and Host Defense Mechanisms Joseph J. Vitale, Boston University School of Medicine Clinical and Experimental Studies of the Influence of Nutrition Deprivation on Immunity Robert A. Good and David Jose, University of Minnesota Medical School The Bactericidal Activities of Phagocytes in Health and Disease Anthony J. Sbarra, R. R. Strauss, B. B. Paul, R. J. Selvaraj and G. W. Mitchell, Jr., Tufts University School of Medicine

Minutes of the Meeting of Officers and Council Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey May 6, 1969

Minutes of the Meeting of Officers and Council Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey May 6, 1969

Minutes of the Meeting of Officers and Council Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 7, 1968

Journal Article Minutes of the Meeting of Officers and Council Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 7, 1968 Get access George Gee Jackson, M.D. George Gee Jackson, M.D. Secretary-Treasurer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 119, Issue 2, February 1969, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/119.2.218 Published: 01 February 1969

Haddon Hall and Bolsover Castle

Haddon Hall and Bolsover Castle

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

President Toomey: The first matter to come up is the report of the Secretary. Dr. Grulee: My printed report has been handed to you as you came in the door. I am not going to read this report. An addition to make to it is that a special meeting of the Executive Board of the Academy was held at 4:30 P.M. Sunday afternoon, November 21, 1948 at Haddon Hall, Atlantic City. President Toomey presided. At this meeting the motion was made, seconded and carried that Dr. Sisson and the Committee he may select be empowered to explore the possibilities of publicizing the Academy's Study of Child Health Services, with absolutely no power to act except by approval of the Executive Board. President Toomey: The report of the Treasurer is next. Dr. Grulee: I am going to ask Dr. Martmer to explain several features of the report, since he is Chairman of the Budget Committee. Dr. Martmer: At first glance, the Treasurer's report looks as though the Academy is an extremely wealthy organization. However, there are certain facts which must be kept in mind. As of this moment, we have cash in the bank totaling $129,767.89. But remember that the Treasurer of the Academy is custodian of those funds which are furnished by the various commercial firms for the ICH Committee, and there is definitely blocked for the ICH Committee—since they have collected that amount—$40,255.00, which leaves us, then, a balance of $89,512.89, which is actually Academy funds. At the start of the year, we had a balance of $43,859.98, and therefore, without going into our reserve, we have available for the balance of the year the sum of $45,652.91. We have, to offset that, eight months of the Academy year. An estimate of probable costs over that period is as follows: This Atlantic City meeting will cost us approximately $25,000.00. The cost of the Executive Board meeting for this session amounts to about $3,000 and there is a second Executive Board meeting in June, which will cost an additional $3,000. There are, in connection with the Areal Meetings, unpaid expenses which we have estimated perhaps somewhat high, but nevertheless a sum must be set aside for that purpose, and we have estimated $3,000. The office salaries, including the five people who are employed in the office, the Secretary and Assistant Secretary for the eight month period amount to $22,500. There is an item of $100 or more which we are obligated to pay in the furnishing of certificates for new members.

REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

A meeting of the Executive Board of the Academy was held at Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N.J., beginning Wednesday, November 17, 1948. It was called to order at 11:30 am. by the President, Dr. John A. Toomey. There were present Drs. Toomey, Sisson, Spickard, Munns, Barba, Pease, Stringfield, Hurtado and Grulee. Applicants for membership were approved. (See list in Business Session Report.) The report of the President was read and accepted. The report of the Secretary was presented and accepted. (See PEDIATRICS 3:115, 1949.) The Board recessed for luncheon at 12:36 p.m. and reconvened at 1:40 p.m. with the following additional members present: Drs. Martmer, McLendon (substituting for Dr. London) and McElhenney. The report of the Treasurer was presented, discussed and accepted. (See PEDIATRICS 3:117, 1949.) The motion was made and carried that whenever possible the Annual Meeting be held in Chicago. The motion was made and carried that men elected to membership at the Executive Board meeting immediately preceding the Annual Meeting be considered members at the time of the Annual Meeting. The following District Reports were presented and accepted: District I: All State Chairmen are working actively on the State Reports of our Study. Already the value of this Study is beginning to show itself. Dr. Root reports that some facts obtained from the Study in Connecticut are being used in the preparation of remedial recommendations in child care to the state. In Massachusetts Dr. Baty reports a complete survey of all health and welfare agencies is being made with the idea of revamping Boston's social structure. The Academy's Study for Massachusetts is being used to assist in this constructive work. The fellows of Rhode Island have elected and recommended for appointment Dr. Robert M. Lord to be their next State Chairmen. The fellows of Connecticut and Massachusetts are meeting early in November to discuss Academy affairs.

Apartment-House Names

LS sess names.l These names may be cut into the lintels of the main entrances or lettered on the plate glass of doorways or on renting signs somewhere about the premises. The names are not ordinarily used in preference to numbered addresses, though for some of the larger institutions they tend to be so used familiarly-as in the case of River House and the Beaux Arts A pts.2 A large number of these names-an estimate is between a quarter and a third-contain the word Arms or Court, in that order of frequency: Senior Armss Castle ArmsJ Unity Ct.J Kodgy Ct A rare inverted form also appears: Court Dther Court Bernards. And there is an occasional Courts-apparently in analogy urith Arms-as in Casino Cts.> Rebecca Cts. While =4rms seems to be holding its own) Caurt as a name element is no longer in the highest fashion. These generic elements-so to call ArmsJ Court(s)J and similar terms noticed below-are used in conjunction with words of various provenance, e.g., names of streets, personal names, and descriptive adjectives. Arms Apts., in the Bronx, suggests an unprecedented exhaustion of the imagination plus a game determination to stick to the orismological amenities. Not so numerous as those containing Court and Arms but smacking, by and large, of grander pretensions and later date are the names containing Hall} such as Gothic Hall} Cinderella Hall Alarble Hall, Holbrook Hall. The first element of Hall-names is usually one af those British or pseudo-British names that may be pronounced with pursed lips. Haddon Hall, the narne o£ the ancient English mansion and of an American cigar, is affixed to at least three apartrnent houses in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan; Brooklyn also has a Hadden Hall. At a distarlce behind Arms, Court} and Hall in pcapularity are Manor,, Tower(s)} Garde^2s} ChambersJ Terrace, House) Villaa StudiosJ Plaz

News and Comment

<h3>American Diabetes Association.</h3> —The second annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association will be held at Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N. J., Sunday, June 7. The morning program will consist of a business meeting, following a 9 o'clock breakfast, an address by the president, a round table discussion presided over by Dr. Herman C. Mosenthal and the showing of an educational film on diabetes. At the afternoon session, which will be called at 2 o'clock, six, and possibly eight, papers will be presented on subjects related to diabetes. At the evening session, following dinner, Dr. William Muhlberg will deliver the Banting Memorial Lecture, entitled "An Analysis of Statistics Bearing on Diabetes Mellitus."