Announcements of Philharmonic Society election results

A card on the advertisement page (but reads as an announcement), listing all of the “officers” elected on May 31, 1870, to serve for the upcoming year.

“Dr. Ogden Doremus having retired from the presidency of the Philharmonic Society, the members at their last business meeting elected as president Mr. George T. Strong, a gentleman well known in social and musical circles, as a cultivated and judicious amateur. Mr. Strong is also president of the Church Music Association, an organization which during the past season has reflected so much artistic credit on all concerned in it. As president of the leading choral and of the leading orchestral society in the metropolis, Mr. Strong will wield a wide art influence, and while the two societies will continue as such to remain entirely distinct and independent, we may venture to hope that they will occasionally be heard together. In Dr. Doremus’s administration the Philharmonic Society has proved the desirability of having as presiding officer a gentleman who with musical taste and education is free from the influences which necessarily environ the professional musician.

“In the other officers elected by the philharmonic we notice the names of gentlemen already identified with the ablest achievements of the society. [Lists appointments.] We trust that next season these gentlemen will extend some encouragement to American composers.”

Brief. “Mr. George T. Strong was elected President of the Philharmonic Society at their last meeting.”