Rochester Music Notes
Series produced by KRPR
Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds
Rochester Music Notes are produced by KRPR and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communites. Made possible by the Minnesota Art's and Cultural Heritage fund.
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Lea Thompson, born in Rochester in 1961, thought she’d follow her brother into dance—until Mikhail Baryshnikov told her she was too “stocky.” That ...
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Growing up in Rochester, Joe Sun soaked up the sounds of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. When Dylan and the Beatles arrived, he loved their records ...
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In 1970, students from both Mayo and John Marshall High School started jamming together. They decided to form a band. Britt Aamodt spins songs from...
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In 1939, twin brothers Jose and Ivan Arguelles were born in Rochester. Ivan, the one with the enormous record collection, became a poet. Jose, afte...
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In 1930, Harold Cooke founded the Rochester Male Chorus. Forty-three years later, the Chorus, still under the directorship of Cooke, traveled to Wa...
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For over 20 years, Lloyd Ketterling was choral director at John Marshall High School in Rochester. And if students had a will to sing, he knew they...
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Since 1954, Earl and Peg Welhaven had been running a music store in Rochester. But in 1966, the store purchased a record cutter and opened a side b...
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The Plummer Building was slated to be the newest addition to the Mayo Clinic campus. But the design was altered slightly before its opening in 1928...
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The Rochester Armory was built in 1915. It was better known at the home of a Minnesota National Guard machine gun company—until January 1920, when,...
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Harold Cooke was born in the late 19th century, into a Rochester that has just opened the Mayo Clinic and was on the brink of becoming one of Minne...
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In 1906, when Adolph Bach opened the Bach Music Company in Rochester, the owner’s last name must’ve given pause. Bach? Any relation to…? Britt Aamo...
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After the Civil War, Rochester became a magnet for traveling performance troupes, thanks to the city’s location along a rail line. Britt Aamodt has...
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