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Identifier: RH-A-3760
Scope and Contents
Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Society collection includes performance programs; orchestra rosters; publications by and about the society; audio-visual recordings; scrapbooks; color and black-and-white photographs. The audio/visual recordings include floppy disks; VHS; cassettes; reel to reel recordings; and compact disks.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930's to Present
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3371
Abstract
The collection is composed of one program from the Kalamazoo Madrigal Society dated May 1 and 2, 1911 from Kalamazoo, Michigan which was their Third Annual May Music Festival for the 1910-1911 season.
Dates:
May 1911
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3988
Scope and Contents
The Kalamazoo Oratorio Society was founded in 1955 by a group of individuals who were interested in bringing the message of Christmas to life through an inspiring oratorio performance of George Frederick Handel’s Messiah. The Society’s annual performance began a tradition that would grow to become one of the area’s largest non-professional arts organizations. In the 1960s, the Society added a spring performance of other major oratorios that steadily developed its national and international...
Dates:
1977-2012
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-74
Abstract
This collection is composed of programs from the Kalamazoo Philharmonic Concert series that were held in Kalamazoo beginning in 1923 and into 1930.
Dates:
1923-1930
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3372
Abstract
The collection is composed of eleven programs from the Kalamazoo Robert Burns Society and date from 1914 to 1927. The programs are from the annual dinner held in January.
Dates:
1914-1927
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4029
Scope and Contents
These two programs were for the 13th (1907) and the 14th (1908) annual banquets of the Lincoln Republican Club of Kalamazoo County both held at the AUV Auditorium on Portage Street. The programs contain a list of officers, music, menu, program and committee members for the event including the Reception Committee. There also are the words for the song, "America." Each year there would be an outside speaker in addition to addresses by the President, vocal selections and shorter speeches from...
Dates:
1907-1908
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3893
Scope and Contents
The piano recital took place in the evening on Tuesday, October 27, 1885, in Schoolcraft, MI. It featured performances by Miss M.F. Higbee, who was born in 1863 and would’ve been about 22 years old at the time of the recital; Mrs. J.H. Sanborn, the wife of John H. Sanborn, who lived at 716 Kalamazoo Ave. in 1885; and Walter Smith, of Schoolcraft, who played in the United States Marine Band under John Phillip Sousa. Smith was eventually named the Marine Band’s second leader, then acting...
Dates:
October 27, 1885
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4379
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of nine programs from 1933 and 1934 shows for the dramatic group Pagan Players, based in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dates:
1933-1934
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4307
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty programs from the Regent Theater in Kalamazoo ranging from 1919 to 1930.
Dates:
1919-1930
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Identifier: RH-A-4359
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of one horizontally folded program for the graduation ceremony (called “promotional exercises”) of the eighth-grade class at South Haven Public School, held on June 12, 1895, in South Haven, Michigan.A decent number of graduates relative to the time and place are listed, with 31 names given. Ceremony events included mostly speeches with some music breaks in between. Most of the speeches seem to have been given by the graduates themselves. It is...
Dates:
June 12, 1895
