Boston School of Oratory
The Boston School of Oratory was a private institution in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1879 by Robert R. Raymond, a dramatic reader. It succeeded the Boston University School of Oratory, which had sometimes been informally known by the same name.
History
In 1873,
Delsarte method of dramatic expression.[2]
In 1884, Raymond relinquished leadership of the BSO due to failing health and turned it over to Moses True Brown, who had held the chair of oratory at
Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams, who headed the Department of Pantomime, and Hamlin Garland, who headed the Department of Literature.[2]
In 1893, the school moved to new quarters in the Back Bay near Copley Square.[2] The following year, it was bought by the Emerson College of Oratory.
Notable alumni
- Sarah Lord Bailey (1856–1922), elocutionist and teacher
References
- ^ Boston University continued to have a chair in Elocution and Oratory, and the enduring popularity of elocution classes spurred the university to organize a new School of Expression in 1885; three years later it was spun off as an independent institution. See Adams (1894).
- ^ a b c Adams, Fred Winslow. "Boston as Elocutionary Centre". Werner's Magazine, vol. 16, no. 4 (April 1894), pp. 115-117.