ISM Founders

  • J. Irwin and Xenia Miller
    J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia were noted patrons of the arts in Columbus, Indiana. The family had several ties to Yale.
  • Clementine Miller Tangeman with Yale President Richard Levin.
    Clementine Miller Tangeman received the Yale medal in 1995 from Richard Levin. She was the sister of J. Irwin Miller, and the widow of a musicologist on the faculty at Union Theological Seminary.
  • Robert Baker
    Robert Baker, one of the founding faculty, was the first director of the Institute.
  • Mina Belle Packer Wichmann
    Mina Belle Packer was the ISM's first administrator, who had also been at Union. She is pictured here at the ISM's 30th anniversary.
  • Jeffery Rowthorn
    Jeffery Rowthorn was the third of the triumvirate to migrate from NY to Yale. Here he awards an ISM prize in 1982.
  • Richard French
    The musicologist Richard French was one of the original faculty from Union.

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