George E. Judd

George E. Judd, former manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, died Monday at his home in Unadilla, N.Y. He was 90 years old.

When Mr. Judd was given an honorary degree by Harvard University in 1955, the citation referred to him as an “imaginative impresario” whose “good?humored patience in the face of genius” helped to lead the Boston Symphony into ever greater importance.

His association with the orchestra went back to 1914, when he became secretary to Col. Henry L. Higginson, who founded the orchestra in 1881. From 1918 to 1935, he was assistant manager. He then moved into the managerial post, which he filled i until his retirement in 1954.

Mr. Judd was active in the establishment of the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass., as a summer activity of the Boston Symphony, and he was guiding hand in the orchestra's first coast-to-coast tour in 1953.

He retired to a farm he owned near Cannonsville, N.Y., the area in which he was born. He attended Harvard from 1907 to 1911.

He is survived by a son, William, manager of the Judd Concert Bureau, and a grandson. New York Times, May 4, 1977. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/04/archives/george-e-judd-exhead-of-the-boston-symphony.html Accessed 6/21/2019