Englewood Makes History

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  • Hall Franklin Overton (1920–1972) was an American composer, jazz pianist, arranger, and educator whose work bridged the worlds of classical music and modern jazz. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he joined its faculty and later taught at institutions including Yale…

  • Kitty Kallen (1921–2016) was a popular American singer whose career spanned the big-band era, radio, television, and popular music. Born Katie Kallen in Philadelphia, she began performing as a child and rose to national prominence in the 1940s as a vocalist with the bands of…

  • Betty Clark of Englewood, New Jersey, became widely known in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a talented young soprano whose determination and musical gifts captured national attention. Despite losing her sight at an early age, she built an impressive career as a radio…

  • The Sun Ra Arkestra is one of the most influential and unconventional ensembles in jazz history. Founded in Chicago in the 1950s by Sun Ra, the group blended big-band swing, free jazz, experimental improvisation, electronic instruments, theatrical costumes, and Afrofuturist…

  • Clara Kellogg was the featured performer at the opening of the Athenaeum in Englewood in 1870. Clara Louise Kellogg (1842–1916) was one of the first American-born opera singers to achieve international fame. Born in Sumterville, South Carolina, and raised in New York, she…

  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) was one of the most celebrated violinists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Vienna, he was a child prodigy who studied at the Vienna and Paris Conservatories before launching an international career. By the early 1900s he…

  • Mary Chontrelle Armstrong (c. 1876–October 3, 1926) was more than a music teacher; she was the central force behind Englewood’s emergence as a serious cultural community in the early twentieth century. As founder and director of the Englewood Conservatory of Music and organizer…

  • The Northern Valley Civic Music Association was formed in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1932 to bring world-class concert artists to the Northern Valley through a community subscription model. According to a February 5, 1932 article in The Record, the association was organized at…

  • Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962) was one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era. Born in Hamar, Norway, she trained in Oslo and made her early career in Scandinavian opera before her…

  • In February 1930, Englewood hosted one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century when Sergei Rachmaninoff performed before a packed audience at St. Cecilia’s Auditorium under the auspices of the Englewood Conservatory of Music. According to The Record, the recital drew…
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