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Frank Damrosch founded the Institute of Musical Art in 1905 to keep American musicians from crossing the Atlantic for training. Th...

RISD was founded in 1877 after Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf led the Rhode Island Women's Centennial Commission to invest its exhibiti...

Lawrence Berk founded Schillinger House in 1945 to teach modern arranging his own way; it became Berklee and grew into the largest...

Founded as the Government School of Design to improve British manufactured goods, the RCA became the world's only entirely postgra...

Founded in 1822 by Lord Burghersh and granted a royal charter in 1830, the Royal Academy of Music is the oldest conservatoire in B...