. Chicago foreign language press survey [microform] : Slovene . II. CONTRIBUTIONSAND ACTIVITIESB. Avocational and1. Aesthetica. Music 1*5 • , rA i • * f. .v- ?Mtan ? II B 1 a LGVSLIA?; Memorial Book of the First .11-Slavic Singing Festival, lc54. hl: IP TTT ? p 7 ? T ~ r In 1916 the Lira Singing Society was organized on the Vest °ide ofChicago, in the Slovene community which has its center at Oermak Road andLincoln Street, as the Tamburica Society, taking its name fro::, the popularJugo-Slav instrument. The orranizers were .Villi an prijatel and John 7,eble,The club grew so rapidly th

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. Chicago foreign language press survey [microform] : Slovene . II. CONTRIBUTIONSAND ACTIVITIESB. Avocational and1. Aesthetica. Music 1*5 • , rA i • * f. .v- ?Mtan ? II B 1 a LGVSLIA?; Memorial Book of the First .11-Slavic Singing Festival, lc54. hl: IP TTT ? p 7 ? T ~ r In 1916 the Lira Singing Society was organized on the Vest °ide ofChicago, in the Slovene community which has its center at Oermak Road andLincoln Street, as the Tamburica Society, taking its name fro::, the popularJugo-Slav instrument. The orranizers were .Villi an prijatel and John 7,eble,The club grew so rapidly that in a very short tine it had eighty that time it hen a number of sponsoring members, and so it was decidedthat it was strong enou; h to add a singing group to the original instrumen-tal group. The name of the clue v;as char, i, and it became the Lira Sloven-ian Singing and Tamburica Society. Its object v/iiS to promote Slovene singing arid Slovene instrumental followin, persons were its officers at the time of its organization:John 7,eble, president, Adolph isja, secretary, and Jack *Tuha, treasurer. The singing rou

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