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Wisconsin High School Student Rehearsal

Date: 02 11 1958
Description: Prof. J. Russell Paxton (left) of the University of Wisconsin School of Music and director of the Wisconsin High Singers posing with participants in the Wo...
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Professor Edgar Gordon

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Professor Edgar B. Gordon with a large group of grade school youngsters from southern Wisconsin who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to s...
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University of Wisconsin Players Opera Finalists

Date: 02 06 1950
Description: Finalists in tryouts for leading roles in the first opera ever to be presented by the Wisconsin Players are shown here with Doris Kassel, accompanist, at a...
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University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet

Date: 01 12 1959
Description: The University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet, sponsored by the University's Bureau of Lectures and Concerts, presents a musical biography of Richard Rogers. P...
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon is shown surrounded by some of his 90,000 "radio children," 3,500 of whom sang for him Saturday at the University of Wisconsin stock ...
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Philharmonic Rehearsal

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison will give the first performance of a work by Professor Robert Crane, a member of the University of Wisconsin music facul...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Jim Walters of WMFM holding a Wisconsin State Journal newspaper as he is watching a vinyl record begin. He interlaces music and comments on the news...
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Gold Star Parents at Memorial Concert

Date: 03 20 1949
Description: The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Charlotte Burr (left) and Margaret Wilber, standing, inspecting the musical program for the Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale. Seated is Nancy Becknell, an...
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Charles Dietz and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 09 02 1946
Description: Charles Dietz, a singer of English ballads, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...
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Musical Families

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Group portrait of eight members of the Arthur Hasler family posed around a piano, singing. Seated at the piano are Sylvia, the oldest, and Mark. In the bac...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Anniversary Banquet

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: A group of attendees gathers at a banquet celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority. They include, left to right, Professor L...
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Dr. Charles O. Lindberg

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: The man on the left is Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a physician and singer of Swedish songs, who recorded for Helene Stratman-Thomas. The man on the right is A...
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Central High Band Director and Students

Date: 02 27 1952
Description: Central High School band director W.J. Fandrich instructs two student trombone players, Eugene Nelson (left) and Beatrice Newton.
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Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and Conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon confer on Hagen's chorus composition "Carducciana" written for the Philharmonic Chorus of Ma...
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Mr. Harmonica Man

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Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, who formed a bluegrass band known as the Capital Offenses, played the harmonica in the State Capital rotunda at the me...
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Philharmonic Rehearsal

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison rehearses a portion of a Bach motet with accompanist Julia Benoy Landmark, seated. Left to right, they are: Elizabeth Bo...
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Sigmund Romberg and Students

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: Composer Sigmund Romberg at the piano during an impromtu concert at Central High School. Members of the high school band looking on are, left to right: Bev...
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Madison Civic Chorus

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Walter Heerman discusses the score of Handel's "Messiah" with chorus members. They are Arlene Radl (sitting) and, standing left to right, Matthias Cooper, ...

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