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Frederick E. Moncrieff papers, 1947-2000 (majority within 1961)

1.2 linear feet — 1 oversize folder (UAm) — 5.2 GB (online)

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Frederick Moncrieff worked as an editor, writer, photographer, and manager for the University of Michigan News and Information Services between 1946 and 1966. He accompanied the University of Michigan Symphony Band on its 1961 tour of the Soviet Union and the Near East. The majority of the collection is materials relating to this tour. Other items pertain to historic buildings in Ann Arbor and Camp Michigania

The Frederick E. Moncrieff papers primarily document Moncrieff's work with the University of Michigan. These papers are divided into three series: University of Michigan Band Tour Papers; Other Materials; and Audiovisual Materials.

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Audiovisual Materials, 1947-circa 1966

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The Audiovisual Materials series, 1947-ca. 1966, includes photographs, slides, and audiotapes of interviews and concerts from the University of Michigan Band Tour. The audiotapes are reel-to-reel recordings of concerts in the Soviet Union broadcast by Radio Moscow as well as post-tour interviews with participants. There are also photographs and a 16 mm color film of Camp Michigania, photographs of historic buildings, campus photographs, including the famous photograph from 1947 showing students on the Diag walking amid streaming rays of the morning sun, and some images of Moncrieff in the Audiovisual Materials series. The campus photographs and some of the Band Tour images are located in the oversize folder.

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[Part 1]

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(Tape 1; performs Rimsky-Korsakov "Procession of the Nobles" from Mlada, "Elsa's Procession to the Catherdral" by Richard Wagner, "Concerto for Saxophone and Band" by Paul Creston. "Summertime" by George Gershwin, "Rhapsody on Russian Folk Songs" by Jerry Bilik, "La Virgen de la Macarena" by Rafael Mendez, and "The Three Trumpeters" by Agostini.)