Records, 1955-1980.

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Records, 1955-1980.

This collection consists of administrative and operational records documenting the history of the Alaska Festival of Music. Included are the board of directors minutes and annual reports, subject files, business records, programs, scrapbooks, and recordings of performances. In addition, there is a photograph collection of approximately one thousand photographs.

9.2 cu. ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7489501

OCLC Western Training, W7L

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Hale, Mary P.

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Gerle, Robert

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Robert Gerle (1924-2005) was a noted concert violinist, conductor, and professor based in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan areas during the last thirty years of his career. Born in Abbazia, Italy, now Opatija, Croatia, of Hungarian parents, Gerle began study of the violin at a young age, graduating from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Hungarian National Conservatory of Music. In 1942 he won the Hubay prize for violin performance. During World War ...

Westman, John

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Shaw, Robert, 1916-1999

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Choral and orchestra conductor. From the description of Interviews conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 25, Nov. 30, and Dec. 1, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861473 ...

Alaska Festival of Music.

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The Alaska Festival of Music came into existence in 1956 when Mary Hale of Anchorage urged a number of people in the music world to help develop the musical movement in the region and to bring to Alaska some of the world's greatest music. Its organizers sought to develop the musical movement in the region and to bring to Alaska some of the world's greatest music. Among those invited to the area were Robert Shaw, Julius Hereford, John Westman, and Robert Gerle. From the description of...

Hereford, Julius.

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