Talk:St. Cecilia Society

Today?
The article needs more attention to what the Society is and does now, not just what it did up to the 19th century. We're told that it "continues to flourish", but we need some expansion of that to tell is precisely how it now operates. 86.136.251.18 15:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Not much to say, Today.
I've added a bit more information about the society's current activities, but honestly they're not doing much today except coasting on the reputation established long ago. The real significance of the organizatoin lies in their former musical activity, which ended nearly two hundred years ago. Since then, they have done little except continue to exist and to represent the spirit of the "old guard." NMButler 04:54, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Current Activity?
Do they operate a country club or dining facility for members? Do they engage in any social or charitable activities? Are members who become divorced permitted to remain as members (they did not always -- e.g. J. Waites Waring, a now-deceased federal judge -- was not invited to the annual ball after he and his wife divorced). Of course, no divorce was permitted at all in South Carolina prior to April 15, 1949. See S.C. Const. art. XVII, s. 3, as it existed immediately before that date. John Paul Parks (talk) 18:40, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Mozart in America?
A possible major find for music history.

When in Austria many years ago, I was told by my landlady of a relative of hers who claimed to own a letter written to Mozart by the St Cecilia Society in 1784 inviting him to America for a concert series. He was to perform first at Charleston, then visit the Harmonic Societies of Fredericksburg, VA, and New York before taking ship back to Europe. Unfortunately I did not get the name and address of this relative, nor could my landlady possibly be still alive. But does a copy of such a letter exist in the Society's archive? News of its despatch would probably have spread widely by word of mouth: any such local source reported for it?

Richard N 87.112.180.239 (talk) 10:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)