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Biographical information on Frank Italiano's conducting career with the La Crosse Youth Symphony, 1979-1989.

Abstract Concert programs, season records, administration records, student application forms, newspaper articles, and photographs document the administration and events of the Great River Festival of the Arts with many materials related to the Great River Symphony and its predecessor the Coulee Region Symphony spanning from 1961 to 1987. The Great River Festival of Arts, held in La Crosse, Wisconsin, began in 1960 under the leadership of Francesco "Frank" Italiano. What began as a youth symphony and...

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Manuscript musical score of Rudolf Kvelve's "Icicles, Opus 13, number 1" for piano.

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Scrapbook compiled by Ida Schumann of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Materials date from 1890 through 1937 and primarily include newspaper clippings and programs from the musical recitals of Schumann and her students. Schumann was a musician and piano teacher; she lived from 1860 until 1949.

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Records of Local 201, a musicians' union in La Crosse, Wisconsin, affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Musicians. Covering mainly 1973-1987, the collection includes history, by-laws, contracts and agreements, correspondence, guidelines/procedures, some membership information, and documents dealing with members' association with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, 1975-1987.

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Newsletters published by the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra include: "La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Newsletter," "1899 Crescendo Future," "LSO Notes," and "Musical Times."

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Newspaper clippings and programs of the Lenten Organ Concerts held between 1987 and 2002 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. These concerts were put on by the Friends of the Symphony and the La Crosse Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.