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Photographic Memories of the Conference

"Celebrating the 500th Birthday of Andrea Amati:
The Secrets, Lives, and Violins of the Great Cremona Makers 1505-1744"

Held at the
National Music Museum
The University of South Dakota
July 1-4, 2005

Group Photo of Conference Attendees

Participants in Cremona conference

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Links to Program of Events and Biographies of Presenters

Published Reviews of the Meeting:

"The Violins of Cremona," The Economist (July 28, 2005).
"500th Birthday Bash Celebrating the 'Father of the Modern Violin,'" La Voce of Claire Givens Violins, Inc. (Autumn 2005), p. 4.
Naomi Sadler, "Cremonese Feast," The Strad 116, No. 1386 (October 2005), pp. 25-26.

Photographs below courtesy of Tim McCluskey (Berkeley, California)

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 Opening Reception (July 1) at the home of University of South Dakota President Jim Abbott (including images of Vermillion Mayor Dan Christopherson, City Councilman Jere Chapman, and Gloria Christopherson)

                     

 Photographs taken in Museum Galleries and at Show and Tell (July 1)

                   
 
 
                           
 
 
                   
 
 
                       
 
 
       

 Photographs taken during breakfast, conference activities, and at Pig Roast (July 2)

                   
 
 
                           
 
 
               

 Photographs taken during conference (panel photo by Bill Willroth, Sr.) and recital (July 3):

                   

 Photographs taken during reception and banquet (July 4):

                       
 
 
                   
 
 
                   
 
 
                   
 
 
                       
 
 
                   
 
 
                       
 
 
               

Photographs below taken by Museum photographer, Bill Willroth, Sr. (Vermillion, South Dakota)

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 Photographs taken during reception and banquet (July 4):

                   
 
 
                   
 
 
           
 
 
                   
 
 
               
 
 
       

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