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Introduction
Detailed Timeline Text "Things-PSO, Opus 1"
1676-1978
1979-1998
1999-2014
Timeline Anecdotes
Reference Tables
Conductors and Music Directors
Concert Masters
GMs and Executive Directors
Board Presidents
Women's Committee Presidents
Auditorium Architects and Acoustical Consultants
"Magic" Performance Tally
List of Works Premiered by the PSO
Original PSO Members (1926)
PSO KinderKonzert Themes (1991-2002)
Milestone Memories
1932 Incorporation Documents
Final Russ Burleigh Concert Program Column
Final Jane Hunter Concert Program Column
PCHA & Merrill Auditorium Histories
Performances
Brochures
Pictures
Conductors
"Magic" Program Covers
"Magic of Christmas"
Through the Decades
1st Decade 1924-1934
2nd Decade 1935-1944
3rd Decade 1945-1954
4th Decade 1955-1964
5th Decade 1965-1974
6th Decade 1975-1984
7th Decade 1985-1994
8th Decade 1995-2004
9th Decade 2005-2014
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2nd Decade 1935-1944
Portland Symphony Orchestra, Paul E. Melrose, Conductor
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PSO, 1936-37
Rehearsing at unknown facility
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PSO, 1937-38
This PSO group performed a series of radio broadcasts in 1937-38
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Symphonic Ensemble
PSO'ers on bus headed for away concert (Press Herald photo)
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Off to Sanford, 1938
Katherine Hatch Graffam & Harold Lawrence at center, 1938 (likely Press Herald photo)
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Quartet of PSO'ers
PSO Concertmaster, 1933-1939
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David E. Fisher
1938 (Press Herald photo)
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PSO Classical Concert
PSO President was flutist featured in Evening Express mention about upcoming 1938 concert
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Harold M. Lawrence
Russell Ames Cook and violinist Harry Ellis Dickson (likely P-H photo)
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PSO Rehearsal, 1939
Fifteen-year veterans honored (likely P-H photo)
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Charter-Members, 1939
Russell Ames Cook with John Knowles Payne's "Oedipus Tyrannus" (likely 1939 P-H photo)
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1881 manuscript
Russell Ames Cook conducting PSO concert in PCHA
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1939
Russell Ames Cook on podium, 1940 (Press Herald photo)
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PSO rehearsing
Peggy Stuart, guest composer-pianist, 1940 (Press Herald photo)
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PSO in concert
Portland Symphony Orchestra, Russell Ames Cook, Conductor
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1940
Clinton W. Graffam conducted 1st-ever concert of Portland Student Philharmonic Orchestra, 1942
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Student Philharmonic
Women joining US Army at intermission of PSO concert on December 7, 1943
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1943 WAC Ceremony
Not having enough stamps often kept PSO'ers from rehearsals
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Gas Ration booklet