US LNHT MC 946

Volunteer Committee of the New Orleans Symphony

Manuscripts Collection 946
1946 – present
15 linear feet
(2 records boxes and 47 volumes)

Scrapbooks, minute books, financial records, and other documents of the Volunteer Committee of the New Orleans Symphony. The organization was formerly called the Women’s Committee and it continues today as a support group for the Louisiana Philharmonic under the name "Symphony Volunteers, Inc."

Over 60 musicians of the former New Orleans Symphony, which ceased operations after 55 years, founded the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) in September 1991. The LPO’s support group, Symphony Volunteers, Inc. has a fifty-nine year history of immensely successful and popular fund raising activities including the annual Symphony Book Fair, Encore at the Orpheum, Encore Shop, recitals, and the annual Soiree.

This collection details the activities of the support group through minutes, programs, and scrapbooks, and other documents.

CITATION

Volunteer Committee of the New Orleans Symphony, Manuscripts Collection 946, Manuscripts Department, Special Collections, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118

1. Women’s Committee financial records, 1970s

2. Women’s Committee financial records, 1980s

1. Minutes, 1982-1983

2. Minutes 1983-1984 (see also volumes 46 & 47)

3. Minutes 1987-88

4. a: ledger 1976-78
b: ledger 1978-84

5. tour programs

SCRAPBOOKS

6. 1946-47

7. 1948-49

8. 1949-50

9. 1950-51

10. 1950-51

11. 1951-53

12. 1959-60

13. 1960-61

14. 1961-62

15. 1961-62

16. 1962-63

17. 1963-64

18. 1963-64

19. 1964-65

20. 1965

21. 1966

22. 1966-67

23. 1968

24. 1969-70

25. 1970

26. 1971

27. 1972

28. 1973-74

29. 1974-75

30. 1975-76

31. 1976-77

32. 1977
[1978-81 not donated]

33. 1982-83

34. 1983-84

35. 1984-85

36. 1985-86

37. 1986-67

38. 1987-88

youth concert scrapbooks

39. – 42. 1952-53

43. 1962-63

Adelaide Bergman collection

44. Volume 1. symphony scrapbooks 1952-68

45. Volume 2 1952-68

46. Minutes 1984-85

47. Minutes 1985-86