Holdings Fine Arts and Applied Arts University Bands Carl Landrum Historical Ban... Finding Aid Holdings Fine Arts and Applied Arts University Bands Carl Landrum Historical Ban... Finding Aid By Carol Berthold
[Printer Friendly] | [ Email us about these papers]Title: Carl Landrum Historical Bands Collection, 1845-2010
ID: 12/9/167
Primary Creator: Landrum, Carl (1916-2003)
Extent: 1.15 cubic feet
Arrangement: Original order.
Date Acquired: 07/13/2020
Subjects: Band Musicians, Instrumental music, Military Bands, Music -- Illinois, Music - United States
Languages: English
Consists of photographs, newsclippings, concert programs, tour flyers, correspondence, published articles, music scores and parts,and posters documenting American wind band performance practice between the 1850s and 1930s as well as Landrum's historical research on American bands. Materials are organzed in original order.
Carl Landrum (1916-2003) was born in Quincy, IL. He graduated from Quincy College, and after serving in the military, working as a musician, and teaching in Ursa and Lewistown, MO, returned to Quincy and became the band and orchestra director at Quincy Notre Dame school, and the director of the Quincy Park Band, which he founded in 1948. After becoming interested in history by participating in the Civil War centenntial celebrations, in 1965 he started writing a local history column in the Quincy Herald-Whig, "From Quincy's Past." A year later, he published his first book, titled Quincy and the Civil War.
Landrum continued directing the Quincy Park Band until 1993, and wrote ten additional books on local history, including his last book on the musical life of Quincy, published posthumously by his wife, Shirley Landrum, in 2010.
Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Source: Pamela Potter
Acquisition Method: Gift