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Title
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Festivals: An Appetite-Whetting Thing
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Description
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Photo and article about the Henry Purcell festival (with a "symposium on the composer's works" sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library) centered on the composer's operas performed at the Music Hall and promoted by the Performing Arts Foundation (led by president Cynthia Kemper) and the Kansas City Star, etc.
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Date
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1966-06-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Opera: C. C. C. in K. C.
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Description
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Photo and article about "the formation of a sorely needed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City--otherwise known as the C. C. C. movement, Cindy's Culture Crusade," named for 35-year-old promoter Mrs. Cynthia Kemper (nicknamed Cindy), "vivacious wife of Millionaire Banker R. Crosby Kemper, Jr." Photo and description of the effort's first operatic production, "the U. S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, 'Julius Caesar,'" at the Music Hall.
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Date
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1965-06-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Music: Everything's Up to Date
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Description
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Photo and article about "Kansas City's first operatic spectacular--the American premiere of Handel's 'Julius Caesar'" at the Music Hall. Description of the promotion of the movement by Cynthia Kemper, wife of banker R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. "and member of the newly formed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City," inspired by similar programs "awaken[ing]" a sense of high culture in other cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, and Saint Louis.
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Date
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1965-05-31
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
