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UW Summer Band Concert

Date: 06 1958
Description: The University of Wisconsin band gives a summer concert at the Memorial Union. Lake Mendota is in the background.
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Victorious Badgers Return with IRA Trophy

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: Professor Ray Dvorak, U.W. Band Director, and fourteen band members put on a resounding reception for the U.W. Rowing team when they arrived at the Milwauk...
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UW Marching Band

Date: 09 26 1959
Description: The University of Wisconsin marching band plays during the Hall of Fame ceremony at halftime of the W Club Day football game. The lead drum major is Jerry ...
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New Clarinets for the Wisconsin Band for the Rose Bowl

Date: 12 17 1959
Description: Professor Ray Dvorak, director of university bands, receives a white clarinet from Boris Josheff, president of the Josheff Music Store, Inc. His store is t...
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University of Wisconsin Rose Bowl Band Fund

Date: 12 06 1959
Description: Sigma Alpha Iota, the music sorority at the University of Wisconsin, presented $50 to the university band for its trip to the Rose Bowl. Barbara Merkel, Pi...
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We Saw You at Monona Grove Rehearsal

Date: 01 05 1960
Description: Monona Grove High School band members rehearse for the Broadway musical comedy, "Call Me Madam." Left to right: students Barbara Bresman, Janaele Duffield,...
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University of Wisconsin Concert Band

Date: 06 04 1960
Description: Raymond F. Dvorak, center, University of Wisconsin bands director, conducting the concert band at pre-commencement exercises on the Memorial Union Terrace.
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Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps Dinner Meeting

Date: 10 26 1960
Description: Five men holding trumpets at a dinner meeting for parents of Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church.
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The Bards

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: 1962 may have been the start to a musical career for this Madison area vocal and instrumental trio, the Bards. Left to right are: Paul Skalet, Cross Plain...
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Central High School Graduation

Date: 06 16 1961
Description: Elevated view of the crowd at Central High School's auditorium in attendance for graduation, with black-clad classmates in the center.
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1961
Description: Pamela Mash (3 1/2 years old) is shown holding her ears as she stands next to her mother who is playing trombone with the VFW band. The concert was part of...
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32nd National Guard Band Plays at State Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Ceremony

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: The 32nd National Guard Division band playing at the State Disabled American Veterans (DAV) plaque dedication ceremony on the State Capitol grounds as part...
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Shorewood Hills Holiday Teen-ager Dancing Party

Date: 12 27 1961
Description: Teen-age girls dancing the twist at the annual Shorewood Hills teen-age dancing party. The six girls in the foreground are, left to right: Barbara Washburn...
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University of Wisconsin 1915 Band Annual Banquet

Date: 10 30 1964
Description: Professor Raymond Dvorak, left, director of the University of Wisconsin bands, discusses formations with Jesse Saugstad, Washington, D.C., who directed the...
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Drums on Parade Held at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 07 10 1965
Description: The annual Madison Drums on Parade is held at Breese Stevens Field after a parade around the Capitol Square. Shown are members of the Argonne Rebel drum an...
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Middleton Good Neighbor Festival

Date: 08 27 1965
Description: Canada's internationally famous all-Indian band, the Chieftones, performing at the Middleton Good Neighbor Festival.
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Gimbels-Schusters Department Store Pop-Concert-Fashion Show

Date: 08 19 1965
Description: The Beatle-haired drummer from the DuPont dance group band, playing at a pop-concert-fashion show hosted by the Gimbels-Schusters department store, outside...
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Gimbels-Schusters Department Store Pop-Concert-Fashion Show

Date: 08 19 1965
Description: Audience members at a pop-concert-fashion show held by the Gimbels-Schusters department store outside the store in the Hilldale Shopping Center. Performanc...
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington at the keyboard at a jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Ray Nance singing into a microphone at the Duke Ellington jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.

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