Indiana Federation of Music Clubs

Scope and Contents This collection contains programs, minutes, and mailing lists of the 8th District of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs in 1934 regarding music, club activities, unemployed musicians, the standard of church music, and boys choirs. The minutes of the November 23, 1934 meeting includes a speech from Mrs. Hunter the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs president on the importance of music and musical education.

Scope and Contents This collection includes five scrapbooks created by members of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs for state and national contests and the scrapbooks include correspondence, newspaper clippings, music programs, photographs, and yearbooks ranging from 1929 to 1948. The Crawfordsville Music Club’s scrapbook won first prize in a 1930 contest conducted by theIndianapolis News; the Greensburg High School Junior Club scrapbook won an honorable mention in the 1931...

Scope and Contents This collection has been divided into three folders. Folder one has information about Diapason Singers who performed at the Main Street Christian Church, Rushville, Indiana, on May 9, 1909. The Diapason class sang on the 100th anniversary of the Missouri Harmony Singers in Morrison. There is a three page typed narrative about the history of "how the Southerners came by their 'fasola' mode of singing." Folder two, labeled Miscellaneous, has brochures, song sheets, and the 1941 annual...