A Musicologist Traces 100 Years of the Chicago Musical College’s Modernism and Inclusion

Nancy Newman, in inset upper left, will research the history of the Chicago Musical College this fall at Chicago's famed Newberry Library, depicted here in a 1910 postcard.

Nancy Newman, associate professor of Music and Theatre, is now at work on a book project that examines the CMC, one of the nation’s oldest conservatories, which operates today as Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. Beyond paying homage to CMC’s output of famed graduates in composition, performance and music education, Newman will examine its role in the dramatic demographic and ideological advancement of the Midwestern metropolis well into the 20th century.