Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was established for male musicians in 1898 as a secret society, and in 1900 became a collegiate fraternity. The collection contains the University of Oregon’s Psi Chapter records including a fraternity scrapbook, correspondence, and records of honorary members.
UA 172
Mu Phi Epsilon, Nu Chapter is a coeducational, professional music fraternity. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of this fraternity.
UA 168
Henry R. Stern (1874-1966) was a music composer and music publishing executive. The collection contains correspondence, music manuscripts, phonograph recordings, composition and copyright lists, biographical material, and scrapbooks.
Ax 637
Harry Stamper (1944-2012) was an Oregon longshoreman and a noted musician who combined messages of both labor and environmentalism in his songs. His song, “We Just Come to Work Here, We Don’t Come to Die” is considered a classic in labor and folk song circles, the anthem of the occupational health and safety movement, and is included in the Smithsonian Folkways album, Classic Labor Songs.
The Stamper collection arrived at SCUA recently, and is being processed by a Folklore student, Nathan Moore. SCUA has a close relationship with Folklore’s Mills Archive and the Oregon Folklife Network (OFN), which recently relocated to the UO campus.
Nathan brings more to this processing project than just his academic training. He’s a folk musician, part of the Low Tide Drifters, and he knew and played with Harry Stamper. It’s always fun to see a student get really excited about the collection he is processing!
Harry and Nathan
Nathan’s film about Stamper, We Just Come to Work Here: The Music of Harry Stamper, will be shown at a film festival in Canada this year. You can see the film on YouTube, and please check out the Remember Harry page (from which this great photo is borrowed). Stay tuned; we’ll post as soon as the Stamper collection is available for research.
Leonard Whitcup (1903-1979) was a composer of popular music. The collection contains sheet music and a scant amount of biographical information.
Call number: Coll 074
Pi Beta Women’s Fraternity was founded in 1912 at Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, as a professional fraternity for women who are outstanding in music and speech arts. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the fraternity.
Call number: UA 117
Guide to the Phi Beta Women’s Fraternity. Pi Chapter Records
Phi Beta, Pi Delta Chapter is a professional fraternal organization dedicated to music and dramatic art. Records include constitution, programs, ceremonies and events, national conventions, national publication “The Baton”, photographs, program VHS and DVD, and scrapbooks, 1927-2006.
Call number: UA 100
The Oregon Bach Festival was founded in 1970 as an outgrowth of the University of Oregon’s School of Music. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department.
Call number: UA 090
The DeMoss Family Lyric Bards was a family of traveling musicians whose members included James M. DeMoss, a United Brethren minister, his wife Elizabeth (Bonebrake) DeMoss, and their five children, began performing in 1872 and lasted thirty-five years. The collection contains journals, engagement books, contracts, correspondence, manuscript music, published works, testimonials, programs, handbills, photographs, clippings, and mementos of travel.
Call number: Coll 070
The day books gives accounts of the Morris Music Store.
Call number: B 049
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