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This is a photograph of Thurlow Lieurance, renown composer, and Antonio La Hau. Lieurance's musical career began as a bandsman with the 22nd Kansas Volunteer Regiment during the Spanish American War. Later he studied at the Cincinnati College of Music. Lieurance became fascinated with Native American music and instruments and that fascination led to innumerable compositions, including his best known piece, "By the Waters of Minnetonka," first recorded in 1914. From 1926 to 1945 he was Dean of Fine Arts at Wichita University (now Wichita State University) and took that school's music program to national prominence.
Date: 1910-1920
Item Number: 226077
Call Number: B Lieurance, Thurlow *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226077
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Musicians
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Professors
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music
Date - 1910s
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Wichita State University
Education - Higher education - Teachers/Professors
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - American Indians
People - Notable Kansans - Lieurance, Thurlow
Type of Material - Photographs
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