Lecture: Music of the Barbary Coast | SF Public Library

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San Francisco has always been a music-loving town, from the music halls of the Gold Rush to the emergence of a full-time professional orchestra in the early 20th century.

James Keller, organizer of the forthcoming exhibition at the Society of California Pioneers, Singing the Golden State, and Leta Miller, musicologist from UC Santa Cruz and author of the forthcoming Music and Politics in San Francisco 1906-1945, paints a vivid portrait of the diverse musical forces that laid the groundwork for the founding of the San Francisco Symphony in 1911. San Francisco musicologist Susan Key moderates.

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