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Alva Cornet Band
Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-023.
Read the record →Community music
Rehearsals, civic bands, and the work of making music together.
Community and municipal ensembles form a substantial part of the Oklahoma Musicians collection. Their records describe leadership, sponsorship, rehearsal, performance, and the local relationships that sustain a group.
Photographs and newspaper notices often preserve a single occasion rather than an uninterrupted organizational history. Read the dates and qualifications on each record before treating similarly named groups as the same ensemble.
Start with these records
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Bennington Cornet Band
The Bennington Tribune reports that young men organized the Bennington Cornet Band, elected officers and a steering committee, and planned to obtain instruments and a teacher.
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Chandler Band
The reviewed narrative identifies the Chandler Band as a performer at county fairs and political rallies.; An instrument-sale notice supplies the Cornet Band form and possible organizational-change evidence.
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Chelsea Cornet Band
The Chelsea Reporter states that music for Chelsea’s July 4 celebration was furnished by the Chelsea Cornet band.
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Chickasha Band
Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-028.
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Cleveland Cornet Band
Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-111.
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Coalgate Cornet Band
The Coalgate Record calls the Coalgate Cornet Band the town’s best musical organization and announces its music for a grand industrial and commercial parade.
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Davenport Cornet Band
The New Era reports a contract for Davenport’s fifteen-piece Cornet band to furnish music throughout a reunion, playing morning and afternoon and closing each day with a concert.
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Drumright Band
The reviewed narrative identifies a Drumright Band performing for the oil-field community.
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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