Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Whitman College and Northwest Archives
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
(509) 527-5922
archives@whitman.edu
http://www.whitman.edu/archives
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Collection Number:
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HTM_WCMss49
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Creator:
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Schilling, Kenneth
E.
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Title:
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Kenneth E. Schilling Papers
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Dates:
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1944-2001 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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4.5 linear feet
6 boxes
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Languages:
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Materials are in English
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Summary:
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LP phonograph records and reel-to-reel recordings
featuring Whitman College choral groups and the Walla Walla Symphony, lecture notes,
subject files, photographs, and concert programs.
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Biographical Note
Kenneth E. Schilling’s 35 years of teaching service at Whitman College included 25
years as chair of the Music Department. After completing his formal music education
at Lawrence College, University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University, he joined
the Whitman faculty in 1944.
During his tenure at Whitman, Professor Schilling conducted over 2000 public
performances with college and church choirs on the West Coast, Canada, and Alaska
and adjudicated in 150 choral and vocal competitions and festivals. For 20 years he
served as an officer and board member of the Walla Walla Community Concert
Association. He was a charter member and past governor of the National Association
of Teachers of Singing. He retired from Whitman in 1979.
Content Description
The Kenneth E. Schilling Papers include phonograph and reel-to-reel recordings of
Whitman College musical performances by the choir and orchestra and performances
with the Walla Walla Symphony
It also contains classroom lecture notes, subject files, concert programs and
photographs.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Mrs. Martha Schilling.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access None.
Restrictions on Use Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. for copyright not
held by Whitman College.
Preferred Citation Kenneth E. Schilling Papers, Whitman College and Northwest Archives.
Subjects
| Schilling, Kenneth E. -- Archives. |
| Whitman College -- History |
| Whitman College -- Music |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
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Series 1:
Phonograph recordings, 1945-1964
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Graduating Class
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1945 |
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Whitman Choir: Make Awake-Red River
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1946-1947 |
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Cantata: Parts One and Two
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3-Dec-1947 |
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Cantata: Parts Three and Four
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3-Dec-1947 |
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Whitman Choir: Earth is the Lord's/ Holy Radiant Light
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1947-1948 |
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Greatly Daring (Record 1)
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1947-1948 |
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Greatly Daring (Record 2)
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1947-1948 |
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Holy Radiant Light, Earth is the Lord's
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1947-1948 |
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Music of Life/ Haste Thee/Whitman Hymn
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1947-1948 |
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Elks Chorus: Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark
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1948 |
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Riddles: Polly Wolly Doodle Octette
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1948-1949 |
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Ye Are Not of the Flesh/Crucifixus: Whitman Choir
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1949 |
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Waldenwoods Concert: Selections
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14-Aug-1949 |
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Whitman Theatre: Anything Goes, Cole Porter Act One, Side 1 and 2
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1952 |
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Whitman Theatre: Anything Goes, Cole Porter Act Two, Side 1 and 2
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1952 |
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Whitman Theatre: Anything Goes, Cole Porter Act Two, Side 3
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1952 |
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Whitman Theatre: Anything Goes, Cole Porter Act Three, Side 1 and
2
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1952 |
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The Messiah: Sides One and Two
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1953 |
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The Messiah: Sides Three and Four
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1953 |
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The Messiah: Sides Five and Six
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1953 |
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Betty Jane McCarter in Senior Recital: Whitman Conservatory of
Music
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17-March-1953 |
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Julius Baker and Juliette Arnold: Fantasy, George Hue. Ascanio:
Air de Ballet, Saint-Saens
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6-Oct-1953 |
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Whitman College Choir: Psalm 150, Woe Unto Them, Autumn, First of
the Four Love Songs, Brahms
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May 1954 |
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Whitman Choir: Echo Song, Syrinx; The Student Prince, Brother
Will, Brother John, Whitman Hymn
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1955 |
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Whitman College Choir: The Student Prince
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1955 |
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Mass in G-Schubert: Whitman Choir and Orchestra
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1956 |
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The Messiah: Excerpts-Handel: Whitman Choir and Orchestra; Side
Two and Three
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1956 |
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The Messiah: Excerpts-Handel: Whitman Choir and Orchestra; Te
Deum-Verdi (Side Two)
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1956 |
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Whitman Christmas Program (Record 1)
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1957 |
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Whitman Christmas Program (Record 2)
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1957 |
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Selections from the Creation-Haydn: Walla Walla Symphony, Whitman
Choir, and Choraleers
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2-Dec-1961 |
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King David-Honneger: Walla Walla Symphony-Whitman Choir
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8-Dec-1963 |
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King David-Honneger: Walla Walla Symphony-Whitman Choir (Sides
Three and Four)
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8-Dec-1963 |
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Walla Walla Symphony and Choral Union: The Seasons-Haydn
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1964 |
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Walla Walla Symphony and Choral Union: The Seasons-Haydn (Sides 3
and 4)
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1964 |
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Walla Walla Symphony and Choral Union: The Seasons-Haydn (Sides 5
and 6)
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1964 |
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Whitman Orchestra: John Ringgold, Piano
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Undated |
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Fantasia on Christmas Carols-Vaughn Williams; Christmas
Oratorio-Excerpts, Saint-Saens
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Undated |
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The Messiah: Whitman A Cappella Choir and Community Musicians:
Sides One and Two
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Undated |
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The Messiah: Whitman A Cappella Choir and Community Musicians:
Sides Three and Four
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Undated |
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The Messiah: Whitman A Cappella Choir and Community Musicians:
Sides Five and Six
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Undated |
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Whitman Choir: O Sing Your Song, George Jenkins Studios
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Undated |
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Christmas Oratorio, Saint-Saens: Whitman College Choir
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Undated |
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Whitman Choir: O Holy Night, Ave Maria, The Lord Bless You,
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
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Undated |
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Anthems out of the Silence
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Undated |
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Dr. K.N. Westerman's Vocal Exercises
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Undated |
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Soundcraft
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Undated |
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Girls Glee: Music with Soft Voices
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Undated |
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Echo Young All The Things
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Undated |
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Collection of Eleven Sounds
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Undated |
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Timothy Russell Notes: Crucifixus
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Undated |
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Various Illegible or misfit recordings
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Undated |
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Series 2:
Reel-to-reel recordings and audio cassettes, 1966-1979
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Container(s)
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Dates
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Shell- Vestal-Rossing
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1966 |
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Carol Perkins: Sophomore Voice Recital
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1966 |
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Christmas Choral Concert (cassette)
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1968 |
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Whitman College Choral Concert
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1968-1972 |
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WW Symphony Orchestra and Whitman College Choir and Choral Union
(2 Reels)
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1973 |
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WW Symphony Orchestra (cassette)
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1973 |
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Whitman College Choir (cassette)
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1974 |
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Whitman College Choir (2 Reels)
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1974-1979 |
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Jack Medeiros in recital
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13-May-1975 |
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Symphony
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22-Feb-1976 |
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College Choir (cassette)
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1979 |
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K.E. Shilling- Children
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Undated |
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Whitman Music Department
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undated |
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Whitman College Department of Music Presents Music at Christmas
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Undated |
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Messner- Mass in B Copy 2
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Undated |
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Messner- Mass in B Copy 3
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Undated |
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Messner- Mass in B, Copy 2 and 3 (cassette)
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Undated |
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Series 3:
Classroom Materials: Lecture Notes, Tests , 1945-1992
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Britten
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1945-1964 |
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Choral Singing in America
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1964 |
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Copland
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1963 |
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Commedia Dell Arte
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1965-1971 |
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Dello Joio
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Undated |
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Diva Decline
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1966 |
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Donizetti
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1966 |
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Dvorak
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1965 |
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The Fugue
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Undated |
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Eating with opera
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1966 |
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Oscar Hammerstein
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1967 |
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Loose Papers: Essay, Magazine Pages, Program
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1964-1968 |
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Henze
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Undated |
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Hindemith
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1964 |
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Should Business Support the Arts?
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1964 |
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Loose Papers: Student Essays and Magazine Pages
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1966-1971 |
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Outlaw as Hero
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1955-1956 |
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Opera in English
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1966 |
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Opera for the Birds
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1966 |
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Opera: In Culture Today- Its Place- Winning Friends for Opera Etc
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1961-1965 |
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Up Opera's Ladder
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1964-1965 |
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Overture
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Undated |
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Paganini
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1965 |
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Jan Popper
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1966 |
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Ponchielli
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1967 |
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Poulenc
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Undated |
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Prokofiev
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1964-1966 |
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Puccini
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1965-1969 |
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Loose Paper: Rameau as Master of Lyric Tragedy
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1966 |
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Records
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1965 |
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Loose Paper: The Rake's Progress: Student Essay
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1971 |
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"Rock" and its Elements
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Undated |
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Loose Papers: Rossini and Student Essay
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1966-1969 |
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Janacek
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1965 |
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Libretto
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1965 |
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Malipiero
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Undated |
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Mascagni
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1964 |
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Manon Lescaut
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1966 |
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Loose Papers: Student Essay and Magazine Pages
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1966 |
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Melody, Aria, Recitative
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Undated |
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Loose Papers: Wagner Program and Magazine Pages
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Undated |
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Menotti
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1964-1969 |
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Metropolitan Chorus
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1965 |
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Metropolitan Opera House
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1966 |
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Saint Saens
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1964 |
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Salzburg Marionettes
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1966 |
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Loose Papers: Salzburg Festival
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1966 |
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Schutz
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1965 |
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Scrap of paper
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1965 |
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Shakespeare music
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1964 |
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"Struggles I Have Known"
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1965 |
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Loose Book: Arnold Schoenberg: A Perspective
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1964 |
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Strauss
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1964-1967 |
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Verdi
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1964-1969 |
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Tschaikovsky
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1964-1966 |
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Loose Paper: Student Essay
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1969 |
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Vienna
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1962 |
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Wagner
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1965-1966 |
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American Opera
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1964 |
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Libretti- Orfeo, Gluck
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1970 |
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Final Exam Key: Opera (empty folder)
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Undated |
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Loose Paper: Walla Walla Symphony: Holiday Special
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1977 |
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Bach (empty folder)
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Undated |
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Offenbach
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1964 |
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Ballet and Opera: Sisters
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1967 |
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Barber
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1965-1966 |
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Loose Papers: Student Essay, Magazine Pages
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1966-1968 |
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Bel Canto
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1964 |
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Loose Paper: Student Essay
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1971 |
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Berg (empty folder)
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Undated |
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Loose Paper: Magazine Pages
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1969 |
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Bizet
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Undated |
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The Kings of Jester
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Undated |
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Meyerbeer
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Undated |
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Symphony Lecture #2: Opera for People who Hate Opera
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1968-1969 |
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Mozart
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1968-1969 |
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Survey of Opera 1600-1900
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Undated |
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Elder Hostel
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Students Opera Exam Answers
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1966 |
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Opera Term Papers
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Undated |
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Unnamed Folder: Chronological Order
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Undated |
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Opera Recordings List for Identification
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1977 |
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Opera for Final Exam
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Undated |
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Loose Papers: Student Essay and Final Exam
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1977 |
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Grout: Chapter II (Lyric Theatre of Greeks)
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Loose Papers: News clippings, magazine pages, notes
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1970-1991 |
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Why Opera?
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1967-1970 |
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The Chorus
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1967 |
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The Opera Orchestra (empty folder)
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Undated |
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Grout: Chapter I (Intro)
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Grout: Chapter III (The Medieval Dramatic Music)
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Undated |
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Grout: Chapter IV (Immediate forerunners of Opera)
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Grout: Chapter V (The Beginnings)
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Grout: Chapter VI (Monteverdi's Orfeo)
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Grout: Chapter VII (Other Italian Court Operas)
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Grout: Chapter VIII (Italian Opera in Later 17th century)
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Grout: Chapter IX (Italian Opera in Germany)
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Grout: Chapter X (Early German Opera)
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Grout: Chapter XI (Lully and French Opera)
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Grout: Chapter XII (English Opera)
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Grout: Chapter XIII (Masters of Early 18th Century)
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Grout: Chapter XIV (Opera Seria)
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Grout: Chapter XV (Gluck)
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Grout: Chapter XVI (18th Century Comic Opera)
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Grout: Chapter XVII (Mozart)
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Grout: Chapter XVIII (Turn of Century)
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Grout: Chapter XIX (Grand Opera)
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Grout: Chapter XX (Opera Comique)
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Grout: Chapter XXI (Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini)
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Grout: Chapter XXII (Romantic Opera in Germany)
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Grout: Chapter XXIII (Wagner)
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Undated |
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Grout: Chapter XXIV (Later 19th Century)
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Undated |
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Grout: Chapter XXV (Nationalism and Opera
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Grout: Chapter XXVI (Old Bottles and New Wine)
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Grout: Chapter XXVII (Tradition and Renewal)
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Exam- Moten
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1975 |
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Exam- Moten- Ellington
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Final Exam
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Jazz- #1
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Jazz- #2
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Jazz- #3
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Jazz- #4
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Jazz- #5
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Jazz- #6
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Jazz- #7 (Armstrong)
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Jazz- #8 (Beiderbecke)
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Jazz- #9 (Henderson and Stravinsky)
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Jazz- #10 (Moten, Lewis, Waller)
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Jazz- #11 (Kruder, Eldridge, Hampton)
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Jazz- #12 (Lewis and Goodman)
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Jazz- #13 (Hawkins, Young, Holioai, Tatum, Fitzgerald)
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Jazz- #14 (Lucenford)
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Jazz- #15 (Hooges, Williams)
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Jazz- #15 (Bebop: Gillespie, Parker, Christian)
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Garner, Powell, Vaughan
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Review of Brochure Musicians to "Pool"
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Tristano, Davis, Dameron, Dexter
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Coltrane
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Rollins Monk
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Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis, Mingus
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Taylor, Coleman
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Opening Lectures
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1962-1969 |
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Castrati
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1976 |
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Opening Lecture: The Singers
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1969-1992 |
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Records
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Undated |
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All About Your Throat
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Series 4:
Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, biographical
information, correspondence , 1944-1987
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Faculty Biographical Information
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1944-1979 |
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Seattle Sunday Times article: "Clock Tower Watches Over Whitman
Campus"
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7-Oct-1945 |
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Letter from Aurel M. Kelly, Attorney
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16-March-1957 |
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Letter from Chester C. Maxey, Whitman College President
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27-Feb-1959 |
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Whitman music programs
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1973 |
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Photograph: Schilling gives private lesston to Harry Wiessner
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1976 |
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Fall Concert program
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10-Nov-77 |
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Unlabled: Correspondence
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1982 |
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Whitman College Song Book
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1987 |
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Miscellaneous photographs
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Various sheet music: Fraternity and Sorority songs
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Various newspaper clippings
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Sheet music: "The Window Pane"
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Sheet music: "A Simple Song from Mass"
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Letters of Appreciation
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Photographs of musical groups
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Various sheet music
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Unlabled: Handwritten notes
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Unlabled: Correspondence
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Unlabled: Music Building Construction
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Unlabled: Proposed Music Hall Gifts
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Unlabled: Proposed Music Hall Gifts
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Nancy Schilling notebook
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