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- Text: And then there was Anna and she married Alex McPherson and their daughter is Anna, Margret McPherson the music teacher here. And the youngest was Louise. I can remember Louise better than the others. Though I did meet Mrs., they were grown up you see when I was still little.
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- Text: ...It didn’t used to be that way. Well, it started first with courses and lectures and courses in music, you know, the St. Cecilia Society came in there. Interviewer: Was that an important organization? Miss Perkins: That was very important when it was begun, and it was begun by some very im...
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- Text: ...e had a one group of dances which we called P A Y E group. Pay as you enter where we’d donate enough money to buy a little music, piano player and a violin perhaps and dance in somebody’s ballroom, usually in the Huntley Russell 5 house. We had picnics, we had treasure hunts, we had ...
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- Text: ...She was, you know she was one of the most critical people in our lives. She had a great deal of musical experience; she lived and studied in Europe. The most serious critic in my young life. When Nana Angeline said to me, we called her Nana, in her strict way, “You were good.” that was,...
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- Text: ...Looks to me like cherry wood and it looks so pretty how could they left it out of…..You know they have oak in the Music Room and … Mrs. McLachlan: Oak was a big thing in those days. Interviewer: Yes. Mrs. McLachlan: Especially quarter-sawed oak. Interviewer: Quarter-sawed oak. Mrs. McLa...
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- Text: My older brother has moved out of our family home already, so I set up his old bedroom as my own school/music practice room and prepared to go to “class” each day. But wow, it has not been that simple. Mainly because of the fact that it feels like the world is breaking down.
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- Text: ...tarted in about nineteen twenty-three or four is owned by Beatrice Foods. The Imperial Furniture Company is owned by Chicago Musical Instruments Company. The Kindel Furniture Company is owned by Ball Brothers of Muncie, Indiana that make mason jars, part of their conglomerate. I understand ...
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- Text: ...nell, Henry Lawrence (Brother) · 1, 4, 5, 11 H Hazeltine Family · 10, 11 P Perkins, Mrs. Voigt · 3, 10 S Saint Cecilia Music Society · 8 Sherman, Howard · 6 Squier, John W. (Grandfather) · 1 Squier’s Opera House · 1 12 Steketee Family · 6 W U Waters Family · 6, 9 Wellesle...
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- Text: ...was very surprised, and it was kind of a shock, but she just couldn’t be -- at that time, she went back to school, got her music degree, and went to Los Angeles, and we’d see each other periodically, and she died when she was 50 of uterus cancer 24 or one of those cancers. I sat with...
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- Text: ...All the operettas came. You talk to Siegel about operetta; he was crazy about operetta and music, of course. He used to go to all of them and sit in the top gallery, which they called then something I won’t mention. Maude Adams, Billie Burke, all the people right off the Broadway companie...
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- Text: ...0 T S Travis, Calla (Sister) · 4, 5 Travis, James M. (Father) · 2, 3, 4 Travis-Applegate Company · 7, 8 Saint Cecelia Music Society · 5 ...
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- Text: 00:40:58 (DJ): Currently, I’m on the board of the Grand Rapids Symphony, I’ve always enjoyed classical music, also the Princeton Theological Seminary. I’ve continued on the board of the Kellogg Foundation, and the Kellogg Company. Over the years, I’ve had many different interests.