Saturday, March 12, 2016

Notes from Ima's 1918 Notebook


[After a page cut out of the steno notebook, the following page contains only this unidentified  passage]

If the people are to hold the key to power, if they would rule they must serve, and if they would be the heirs of time they must begin to think in terms of eternity.


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[More symphony research notes]

Orchestra

Population: white
Wealth:
Philanthropic expenditures
Citizens in labor & industry:

Liberty Loan:
Amusement Exp:
Auditorium attendance:
Municipal position on board.
Co-operation or subsity for b. & o.?
How many band instruments available
Salaries of band men?
Uses of band?  
                    orchestra?
Highest exp. in U.S. for music? (or.)

  
       Ima, then president of the Houston Symphony she had helped to found in 1913, was on a working vacation,  planning to ask questions about orchestras in other cities.
        
         But something was about to ruin that pleasant trip.




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