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Professor Edgar Gordon
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Professor Edgar B. Gordon with a large group of grade school youngsters from southern Wisconsin who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to sing with Professor Gordon at his annual radio music festival. The festival is an annual climax of Prof. Gordon's classroom broadcast series over the state radio network.
May 9, 1952
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival
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April 21, 1961
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Shorewood Singers
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May 11, 1957
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