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Mickey Regal (center) with Bee and Max Krone in an undated photo. File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Editor\u2019s note: throughout the year, we will cover events and write articles celebrating IAF\u2019s 70th anniversary.<\/i><\/p>\n

Idyllwild Arts began in the early 1940s with one man\u2019s dream of a peaceful mountain idyll where people could experience the civilizing influences of art and music in extended summer sessions. The Idyllwild Arts Foundation will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2016.<\/p>\n

It all began when Dr. Max Krone, then a University of Southern California professor of music and dean of the Institute of the Arts, and his wife Bee bought a cabin in Idyllwild in 1941.<\/p>\n

Five years later, intoxicated by the beauty of the mountain and imbued with the idea of creating a summer campus for celebrating, sharing and teaching both fine and performing arts, Krone took the first steps. Along with Robert Kingsley, then dean of the USC Law Center, William Hartshorn, then supervisor of music for the Los Angeles city schools, and Alfred Wallenstein, then conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Krone incorporated the Idyllwild Arts Foundation as a non-profit educational institution to purchase land and support the nascent Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA). The founders purchased 340 acres of gently rolling meadows, streams and beautifully scented pines from the Domenigoni family, who had owned land and farmed for generations in the Temecula\/Winchester area.<\/p>\n

There is a story, attributed to \u201cMusic Man\u201d composer Meredith Willson in Holiday Magazine in 1954, of Willson\u2019s taking a ride with Krone in 1949 through a totally imaginary campus in a totally dilapidated Jeep. Willson described Krone\u2019s enthusiasm in pointing out buildings that had not yet been built. In Krone\u2019s mind\u2019s eye, they were as real as the trees that would soon be cleared for the building sites. And it was not long after that jostling Jeep tour that Krone\u2019s dream buildings began to sprout. They were designed by USC architecture faculty members Arthur B. Gallion and Calvin Straub.<\/p>\n

Those first buildings and ones built in subsequent years were fashioned to blend in with the land\u2019s cinnamon-colored tree trunks and were sited to naturally complement the boulders that are ubiquitous throughout the campus.<\/p>\n

Krone wrote of why Idyllwild\u2019s mountain environment served as the perfect site for his dream of an arts campus: \u201cIdyllwild emphasizes the belief that participation in one of the arts in a beautiful, relaxed, outdoor setting, if only for a week or two during the summer, is the best medicine for the body, mind and soul, not only for what it does for one during that short time, but also for the help it may give towards establishing a pattern of living for the rest of the year, even for the rest of one\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krone held and embodied the belief that if one aspires to greatness one should surround oneself with greatness. ISOMATA summer sessions began to attract more students because of the cast of great teachers Krone was assembling: Willson, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, composer and conductor Carmen Dragon, Benny Goodman, pianist and conductor Jos\u00e9 Iturbi, Wallenstein, choral conductors Fred Waring, Roger Wagner and Norman Luboff, novelist Irving Stone, poet Norman Corwin, photographers Ansel Adams and Alfred Eisenstaedt, folk singer Pete Seeger and choreographers Bella Lewitzky and Merce Cunningham.<\/p>\n

Those early summers were rich with talent and camaraderie. The sounds of music cascaded throughout the woods, art was created in campus studios, writers taught, dancers danced, actors acted and Krone\u2019s dream took hold and began to grow.<\/p>\n

The first summer workshops took place over six weeks of intensive arts education. From 40 adult students that first summer, the Summer Program workshops grew to more than 2,000 children, youths, adults<\/p>\n

sessions.<\/p>\n

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Serenity of the background enhances the spell during ISOMATA\u2019s (now Idyllwild Arts) workshops and seminars in this undated photo. Photo by Virginia Garner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are some key dates in the evolution of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation:<\/p>\n

\u2022 1941 \u2013 Max and Beatrice Drone buy the Lincoln Ferris cabin on Marion View Drive.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1946 \u2013 The Idyllwild Arts Foundation is incorporated and land is purchased for the ISOMATA campus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1949 \u2013 Laura Steere teaches the first sculpture and modeling classes outdoors. The Atwater Kent Bowl, now Holmes Amphitheatre, is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1950 \u2013 The Laura Steere Studio is the first building constructed on campus. Birchard Music Studio and Bowman Arts Center are dedicated. July 26 is \u201copening day\u201d for the first full schedule of six-week summer art classes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1952 \u2013 Annual summer Shakespeare festival is inaugurated;<\/p>\n

\u2022 1955 \u2013 Merce Cunningham and Bella Lewitzky join the ISOMATA dance faculty. Violinist Alice Schoenfeld and her sister, cellist Eleonore Schoenfeld join the music faculty.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1956 \u2013 First Jr. High School Band and Orchestra program is held and the dining hall opens.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1957 \u2013 Robert Evans Holmes conducted the Festival Choir, remaining until 1974. Pete Seeger joins the ISOMATA folk music faculty and Norman Corwin makes his first appearance as a writers\u2019 conference participant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1960 \u2013 Ernie Siva joins the ISOMATA Native American faculty.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1962 \u2013 ISOMATA becomes part of USC on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1963 \u2013 Rush Conference Hall (now part of the IA Theatre Arts) is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1964 \u2013 The ISOMATA High School Symphony tours England and Wales. IAF and USC reach agreement for ISOMATA to become USC-ISOMATA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1965 \u2013 The ISOMATA Idyllwild Youth Symphony tours Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1968 \u2013 The ISOMATA Associates forms to support the school.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1970 \u2013 Max Krone passes. ISOMATA is integrated into the USC School of Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1980 \u2013 Zimmerman Log Lodge is dedicated. Holmes is chosen as new director of USC-ISOMATA. Famed Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy visits ISOMATA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1983 \u2013 Holmes Amphitheatre is dedicated. USC and ISOMATA part company and the IAF board resumes full ownership and operation of the school.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1985 \u2013 William Lowman becomes executive director.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1986 \u2013 The Idyllwild Arts Academy begins operation as the only independent boarding arts high school west of the Mississippi. Summer Program workshops continue, following the academic year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1987 \u2013 Stephens Recital Hall, Husch and MacNeal dorms and the Lewitzky Dance Studio are completed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1990 \u2013 Idyllwild Arts begins its first year of both arts and academic classes on campus. Previously academic classes had been taught at the Elliot Pope Preparatory School (now AstroCamp).<\/p>\n

\u2022 1991 \u2013 IAA completes its first Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation process.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1995 \u2013 ISOMATA formally becomes the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program and the Idyllwild Arts Academy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1997 \u2013 New buildings include the Fisher Dance Studio, Wayne and Pierson dorms and Meadow 8 classroom.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2000 \u2013 Beatrice Krone passes, and the Krone Library and Museum is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2002 \u2013 The Bruce Ryan Sound Stage opens and the Marie Eymann Sculpture Garden is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2003 \u2013 The Escherich Humanities Center is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2008 \u2013 The Nelson Dining Hall is dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2011 \u2013 The Ataloa Memorial Grove is rededicated with nine cairns built by David Reid-Marr in collaboration with Steve Hudson. After 25 years at the helm of IAA, Bill Lowman retires.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2014 \u2013 Pamela Jordan becomes president of IAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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