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Bach for a hundred years : a social history of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem
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ISBN: 1280998083 9786613769695 1611460956 9781611460957 9781611460940 1611460948 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield,

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This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S.Bach and to develop it into a choir of international importance. Singers, instrumentalists, industrialists, academicians, bankers, and churches acted in community to found and perpetuate a group devoted to sharing the music of Bach locally, nationally, and internationally. While The Bach Choir of Bethlehem performs frequently elsewhere, the annual Bethlehem Bach Festival became and remains a magnet for those who love Bach and want to


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Choir & organ.
ISSN: 26328194 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : London : London : Orpheus Publications Rhinegold Publishing MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd.


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Called upstairs : Moravian Inuit music in Labrador
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ISBN: 0228018358 Year: 2023 Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Called Upstairs explores the transformation, under centuries of Inuit stewardship, of a music practice introduced by Moravian missionaries in the late 1700s. A story of adaptation and mediation, the book presents a chronicle of Inuit leadership and agency in the face of colonialism.


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The Singing Farm Women of Rural Indiana (1934-2009) : A Depression Era Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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ISBN: 0773418814 9780773418813 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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In this book the author depicts the lives of rural farm women who travelled through the countryside singing songs. The choral group has lasted over seventy years and this catalogues through archival material, interviews, and scrapbooks kept by the women themselves, the life of this Depression Era Program. What began in the 1930's has grown out of obscurity into an inter-state travelling music organization inspiring many offshoots. It is about the role music can play in someone's life and the camaraderie and social interaction that come with ensemble participation. It is also about the life exp

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