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Oklahoma All-State Band

Research traces Oklahoma’s first All-State Band to 1929 and documents a continuing statewide honor-band system.

Oklahoma All-State Band convention broadcast
Oklahoma All-State Band convention broadcast · Original source

People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for Oklahoma All-State Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

Oklahoma All-State Band is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Reading the evidence

The reviewed evidence supports 1929–present tradition as the verified program history. Any newly identified hiatus, reorganization, or successor relationship should be added explicitly rather than assumed.

Questions for further research

A fuller leadership succession, membership history, selected performance chronology, and image provenance would enrich the Oklahoma All-State Band packet, but none is required to support its present text-readiness judgment.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1929-01-31

    A January 31, 1929 report identifies a 144-player Oklahoma All-State high-school band selected from 43 schools and seven districts for rehearsals and a broadcast concert during the Oklahoma Education Association convention.

Sources

  1. shareok.org/bitstreams/52accef2-02c1-4ec4-998b-fc37bbcd65f3/download
  2. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2412239/m1/1/