KMSU

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KSMU's mission is to advance the programs and goals of Minnesota State University, Mankato to the greater community, to provide a learning environment for University students that fosters cultural diversity along with an understanding of the technical, artistic and business aspects of broadcasting, and to provide programming that serves underserved populations in the greater community.

Series

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4 Pieces

Concert series featuring the Mankato Symphony Orchestra

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Nov 04, 2010
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5 Pieces

Recordings of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra made possible through Minnesota State Arts & Cultural Heritage funding.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Nov 21, 2019
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8 Pieces

Recordings of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra made possible through Minnesota State Arts & Cultural Heritage funding.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Nov 06, 2019
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3 Pieces

Mankato Symphony Orchestra performances in fiscal year 2022.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Nov 02, 2021
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4 Pieces

Selected recordings of Mankato Symphony Orchestra performances in fiscal year 2023. These recordings were made possible with funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Nov 15, 2022
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3 Pieces

Select Mankato Symphony Orchestra concerts recorded between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Feb 05, 2024
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10 Pieces

MN90: Mankato History in 90-seconds.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Dec 15, 2022
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9 Pieces

Creative fiction performance pieces.

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Jun 14, 2012
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1 Piece

Creative Fiction Performed As Audio Theater

  • From: KMSU
  • Updated: Jun 14, 2012

Latest Pieces

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August 24, 1964: Mankato band the Gestures had followed their dreams to Kay Bank Recording Studio in Minneapolis. The Trashman had recorded a natio...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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December 4, 1956: Nudie Cohn, and his Mankato-born wife Bobbie, needed Elvis Presley’s shoe size. And shirt and pant size. These outfitters to the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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February 12, 1958: Singing duo the Everly Brothers encountered mayhem in Minneapolis when they tried—and failed—to make an appearance at a departme...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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December 10, 1950: Concertgoers filed into a Mankato gymnasium for “Messiah.” The semi-regular tradition of a Christmas performance of Handel’s ora...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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Circa 1946: Mankato opera star Florence Macbeth’s best singing days were behind her when she met hard-boiled detective novelist James M. Cain, whos...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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January 20, 1930: Madge Cowden, fitting the crown on her head, was already the Queen of the Night in her dressing room mirror. Now the Mankato sing...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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January 8, 1918: Hilma Erika Warling was a pianist. And from a Swedish family in St. James. Good thing, because tonight she’d be performing in New ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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August 1, 1917: Walter Backer, New Ulm, had his own way of joining the war in Europe. By enlisting in the Dunwoody Navy Band in Minneapolis. Here’s...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1900: Nettie Snyder had started too late to develop a singing career. But she’d studied with masters and brought that excellence to her vocal stude...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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Fall 1952: They were women of a certain age, meeting at a Buffalo, New York, to reminisce about old times in Mankato. Old times that had been share...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30