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Melodies and Lyrics from the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center
Musical collections within the scope of a special collections department may sometimes seem like an afterthought or materials to round out a collection. In Davenport and the Quad Cities region, music was integral to many communities settling in this area. … Continue reading
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Tagged Davenport (Iowa), Local History, Music, Musicians, Programs, Resources
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SPECIAL EVENT!! SPECIAL EVENT!! #Iowa175 Celebration!!
#Iowa175 Celebration at The Library | MAIN this Thursday, August 19th from 4:30-7:30 PM, kicking off the Alternating Currents weekend with a fun event of history, music, and culture celebrating the 175th anniversary of Iowa’s statehood! This free event features … Continue reading
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Tagged businesses, Crafts, Davenport, Davenport Public Library, Iowa, Iowa History, Local History, Music, Special Events and Projects
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Musical Memories: Quad City Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 Years
The Quad City Symphony Orchestra, or the QCSO, is celebrating its 100th anniversary! This makes the group one of only twenty longest-established, continuously operating orchestral associations in the United States. That’s a big deal! Many orchestras may claim a longer history, but … Continue reading
All the Way Bach: The Music Students Club
On October 7 of 1883, three women met in the Episcopal rectory on 3rd Street to enjoy a musical afternoon. Celestine Fejervary, who was trained in voice, organ, and piano, Miss Gertrude Wilkinson, who also sang, and Mrs. David Garrett, … Continue reading
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Tagged Local History, Music, Musicians, new resources, The Music Student's Club
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Throwback Thursday: The Quad-Cities USA Campaign
While adding items to our Ephemera collection, we found brochures for the Quad Cities U.S.A. campaign—and we couldn’t resist sharing! ________________ “A typical Quad-Cities resident lives in one community, works in another and shops in a third city. It’s urban, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ephemera, Local History, Music, Quad-Cities, Quad-Cities USA Campaign, Throwback Thursday, Tourism
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A Brief, More-or-less Musical Interlude
Our staff here at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center celebrate the winter holidays each year by exchanging cards, going out to dinner, mailing cards to our wonderful volunteers, and, in one unfortunate case, writing new lyrics to an old holiday song. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Holidays, Music, Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center
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Many Scores to Settle
Among our collections of genealogies and local histories, death records and newspaper abstracts hides a different kind of historical resource: Musical scores. In Special Collections, we have several catalogued scores, most of which have local connections, from Davenport by Alfred … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Petersen, Alfred E. Petrow, Bix Beiderbecke, Composers, Erwin Swindell, Herman Schmidt, Kent Gannett, Local History, Music, Musicians, Scores
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Elsie Von Maur: Seventy-Five Years of Quad-City Music
The recent passing of Elsie Von Maur at the age of 106 led us to realize that our collection of Symphony programs reflect almost ninety-two years of music, seventy-five of which may be seen as part of Mrs. von Maur’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Elsie Von Maur, Music, Quad-City Symphony, Tri-City Symphony
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Davenporters of Note : Florizel Reuter
“…a sunny faced, natural child without the least trace of spoiling by all the attention he has received.” (Davenport Sunday Democrat, 15Sept1895, page 1) Born in 1890 to parents Jacob and Grace Rueter, Davenport’s curly haired charmer Florizel Reuter … Continue reading
