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Black Gold Drum and Bugle Corps
A 1992 newspaper photograph documents the corps performing at Kerr Park and identifies trumpeter Cory Sharp of Edmond.
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Music encountered in civic life and public performance.
Newspaper captures, programs, photographs, and ensemble accounts document particular occasions when music entered public life. They can connect a named group with a date, place, or event.
An announced engagement is evidence of a plan; a report of a completed performance supports a different claim. The original source links let readers examine that distinction.
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Booker T. Washington High School Band, Tulsa
Oklahoma Eagle notices document 1974 benefit concerts for band uniforms and equipment, a 1978 band-boosters appeal, and a 1979 final uniform-payment presentation.
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Captain Fry's Kiltie Band
The Oklahoma Hall of Fame states that Everette Green Fry organized the Kiltie Band in Oklahoma City in 1923. Archival photographs document Captain Fry's group and the later American Legion Post 35-sponsored Kiltie Band.
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Oklahoma City Camp Modern Woodmen of America Band
Harry E. Brill directed the recently organized band at the Modern Woodmen national encampment in Buffalo. It served as escort to Head Consul A. R. Talbot, won first prize for parade excellence, and placed second in the band contes
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Shattuck Stampede and Booster Band
The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Shattuck Stampede and Booster Band in Shattuck and gives the evidence date as 1930s. The source identifies Eldon Baker as director.
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Starlight Concert Band and Jazz Orchestra
Starlight documents free summer concerts since 1947 and current concert-band and jazz-orchestra branches employing professional musicians.
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Archive photograph
"Eschenbach Christopher, German, piano Artist".
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Eschenbach, Christopher." Headline: Eschenbach Christopher, German, piano Artist.
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Archive photograph
"Kobayashi Kenji Violinist, Amus. ".
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Kobayashi, Kenji." Headline: Kobayashi Kenji, Violinist, Amus.
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"Kogan Leonid, Russian Violinist, AM.U.s.".
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Kogan, Leonid." Headline: Kogan Leonid, Russian violinist, Amus.
Read the record →The experiences behind the evidence
Future interviews will connect these sources with the recollections of people who made music.
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