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Schedule of performances at the Opera House, Center Playhouse, Arena, and Stadium for the Seattle World's Fair, April 21-October 21, 1962
Schedule of dates, venues, performers, and performances at the Seattle World's Fair, including a national telecast of the Ed Sullivan Show, poetry readings by Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg, singers Johnny Mathis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole, the Folklorico Ballet of Mexico, and the Lippinzzan Horses of Vienna.
ID Number:1963.3119.100L
Date:1962
Music, notated
Seattle Dear Seattle: Queen City of the West
In 1906, Seattle was enjoying nearly a decade of prosperity that had begun in 1897 with the arrival of the first Klondike gold. The growing city had a new public library and a new railroad station, and boosters continued to promote the city as a center for business and trade in the Pacific Northwest. Songs like “Seattle Dear Seattle,” complete…
ID Number:1964.3309.1
Date:1906
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Opera House interior, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Well known, top name performers are featured at the Seattle World's Fair 3,100 seat Opera House. The decor and well planned acoustics offer pleasant atmosphere and distinct sound throughout the interior of the Opera House. Performers during the fair included pianist Van Cliburn, folk musician Josh White, the Seattle Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet."Previously Seattle's Civic Auditorium, the building…
ID Number:1965.3598.1.14
Date:1962
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World's Fair Ambassadress Martha Wright with Joseph Gandy, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Joseph E. Gandy, president of the Seattle World's Fair, visits Martha Wright, star of Broadway's 'Sound of Music,' in her dressing room to present a Governor's Proclamation naming her the official Broadway representative of the Seattle World's Fair, America's $100 million Space Age Exposition which opens April 21. The proclamation of the Hon. Albert D. Rosellini, Governor of the State…
ID Number:1965.3598.9.27
Date:1962
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Romeo and Juliet performance, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Romeo (John Stride, extreme left) watches the duel between Mercutio (Alec McCowen, left) and Tybalt (Thomas Kempinski, right) in the Old Vic's production of Romeo and Juliet. The play was performed by London's Old Vic touring repertory players and directed by Franco Zeffirelli at the Opera House. Typed on verso: The Old Vic Company. Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare. Director: Franco…
ID Number:1965.3598.19.17
Date:1962
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Jackie Souder's World's Fair band playing in Plaza of the States, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Plaza of the States - State ceremonies honoring each of the fifty states will be held in this flag-surrounded plaza, located in the geographic center of the Fairgrounds. Programs for the day will include outstanding performing arts talent from the honored state." Later known as the Flag Pavilion and Plaza, Fisher Pavilion and Plaza now occupy this site. Handwritten on…
ID Number:1965.3598.19.19
Date:1962
Audio recording
Paul Whiteman Conducts Rhapsody 21, souvenir picture disc of music composed for the Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Among the myriad souvenirs marketed at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair were fair-related songs, sold in the form of souvenir sheet-music and as musical recordings. At least 200 fair-themed songs were composed by professional and amateur songwriters, with more than fifty of these released as vinyl discs. Rhapsody 21 was composed by Toni Mineo especially for the Seattle World's Fair,…
ID Number:1965.3689.1
Date:1962
Audio recording
Sound postcard showing U.S. Science Pavilion at night, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
A series of souvenir sound postcards of the Seattle World's Fair show scenes from the Fair, and play music related to the fair on a 33 rpm recording on the front of the card. This postcard shows the U.S. Science Pavilion at night, and plays "Come and See Seattle," by the "Frank Sugia Trio and Naomi." A description of the…
ID Number:1965.3689.3
Date:1962
Audio recording
"Meet Me in Seattle (At the Fair)" souvenir record from the Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Among the myriad souvenirs marketed at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair were fair-related songs, sold in the form of souvenir sheet-music and as musical recordings. At least 200 fair-themed songs were composed by professional and amateur songwriters, with more than fifty of these released as vinyl discs."Meet Me in Seattle (At The Fair)" written by Edward Chambreau and performed by…
ID Number:1965.3689.37
Date:1962
Music, notated
I'll See You (in 1962)
The Century 21 Exposition, Seattle’s World’s Fair, ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The fair promoted the worlds of space, science, and the future. “I’ll See You (in 1962),” with the Monorail, Space Needle, and the arches of the Science Pavilion on its cover, was one of the songs written to promote the fair. The music and words…
ID Number:1966.3866.26
Date:1962