This Week In Texas Music History: Carl Venth
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a world renowned musician who chose to make Texas his home.
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Carl Venth was born in Cologne, Germany, on February 16, 1860. By the time he was nineteen, he began touring Europe and worked as a concertmaster in Paris. Venth moved to the United States in 1880, touring and performing in Boston, New York, and St. Louis. In 1908, he settled in Texas, where he served as Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the Texas Woman’s College in Fort Worth and conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Carl Venth composed and published dozens of musical pieces and served as head of the Music Department at Trinity University in San Antonio from 1931 until his death in 1938.
Next time on This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a child prodigy whose tastes ranged from classical music to fiddle hoedowns.
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“Over the past 140 years, Trinity has occupied three different Texas settings: Tehuacana (1869-1902), Waxahachie (1902-1942), and San Antonio (1942-present). Including the Woodlawn campus, which Trinity occupied from 1942 to 1952, the University has resided on four campuses in three different locations.” from Trinity website
So he would have been in Wasahachie, not SA.
or Wasahachie with an “x”
Your show is an excellent review of the valuable history of Texas music. However, please be sure to fact check your material more carefully. The show on February 20, 2012 concerning Carl Venth says he was at Trinity University in “San Antonio” from 1931 to 1938. Trinity was in Waxahachie at that time and did not move to San Antonio until 1942. The Trinity University and Wikipedia references below have photographs of the main building on the campus in Waxahachie originally used by Trinity and now a part of the campus of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University that was known as Southwestern Bible Institute when I grew up in Waxahachie. I knew a number of people who went to college at Trinity in Waxahachie during the 1920s and 1930s who were among the leading families in Waxahachie during the following decades. I and many of my Waxahachie High School friends took summer courses at “SBI” while attending other Texas colleges such as UT, SMU, North Texas, TCU, A&M, Texas Tech, etc. during the regular academic year.
http://web.trinity.edu/x836.xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_University_(Texas)
Jim Bryce
Austin, Texas
P.S. For some unknown reason the editor here forced my comments into right justification. I tried both IE and Chrome with the same results.