The WKU Training School Orchestra in the Cedar House in 1954.

Michael Franklin is another WKU grad and librarian who performs and records locally. In addition, he writes music reviews for The Amplifier, a Bowling Green publication promoting performing arts.

Sheet music of T.H. Rollinson's Columbia Fantasia Polka solo for cornet. This music was used by the WKU band in the 1930's.

Onward to Avalon is a solo recording by Jack Montgomery of Shadowdancer.

CD released by local by Bowling Green band Shadowdancer. The band is joined by Chris Carmichael on violin, Skip Cleavinger on Uileann pipes and whistles, Marc Owens on drums, Tom Schultz and Webb Hendrix on Bodhrans, Molly Kerby vocals, Beth Hayes vocals and Dory Hudspeth vocals.

1. Whiskey in the Jar / Trad. Irish Song

2. Moisty Misty Morning / Trad. Nursery Rhyme

3. Three Ravens / English Folksong

4. She Moved Through the Fair / Trad. Irish Folksong

5. Angel Band / Dory Hudspeth

6. The Leprechaun / Trad. Irish Song

7. Skye Boat / Scottish Folksong

8. John Barleycorn / English Folksong

9. Rising of the Moon / Irish ballad

10. Outdoor Nudist Wedding / Jack Montgomery

11. Make it Small / Jack Montgomery

12. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore / Trad. Irish Song

13. Parting Glass / Trad. Irish Song

Shadowdancer is Jack Montgomery and Graham Hudspeth, two friends who formed a musical partnership in 2004 to explore their mutual interest in Celtic music. Montgomery is a WKU professor and library collection services coordinator by day and musician, composer by night. Hudspeth is retired from Bowling Green Municipal Utilities and has been performing in Bowling Green bands since childhood.

Molly Kerby is a professor of in WKU's Gender & Women's Studies Program.

Detail view of mouthpiece of Richard Grise's clarinet.

Albert system B flat clarinet made by Lafayette Paris. Five piece clarinet is made of grenadilla wood with nickel keys. Barrel may not be original and is possibly composite instead of wood.

This clarinet was used by Richard Grise as a child in the WKU Training School Band. According to the donor, he began playing clarinet when he attended the Training School in the late 1920s. He studied under Professor Strahm, and he eventually rose to second chair in the College High Orchestra. W.O. Matthews was the principal. Grise also played in the marching band.

Interior view of clarinet case owned by Richard Grise.

Case of clarinet used by Richard Grise as a child in the WKU Training School band. The case is lined in purple velveteen and has a Western Kentucky Teachers College pennant sticker affixed to the lid.

Formed in 2004 by professor Mark Berry, the WKU Steelband, nicknamed Red Hot Steel gives students an opportunity to learn Caribbean and Latin American music styles. These include calypso, soca, ska, reggae and salsa. The group performs regularly and is quite popular.

Creston Concertino for Marimba was released in 1998. Herein Christopher Norton and friends perform works by Johan Sebastian Bach, Bob Becker, Daniel McCarthy and Norton himself featuring the marimba.

Artists contributing to the CD include the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and Bob Becker Ensemble.

Christopher Norton came to WKU in 1987 and served as conductor of the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra for eight years. He also conducted WKU's operas was guest conductor for the Nashville Sympony and Vanderbilt orchestras. Norton is currently professor of music at Belmont University in Nashville.

Detail of French pointed arms on wooden French flute.

Five piece wooden flute made in France and used in Warren County, Kentucky. It has a conical bore and is probably French in origin. It has five keys and one trill key. All of the keys have French pointed arms. The second joint is wrapped with black thread, whereas the third and fourth joins are wrapped with red thread. The flute originally owned and played by James Davis Hines, 1838-1911.

Misbehavin' presents jazz classics rendered by John Cipolla and Doc Livingston on clarinet and piano. The CD was published in Bowling Green in 2005.

1. Moon Ray / Artie Shaw

2. On the Sunny Side of the Street / Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh

3. Willow Weep For Me / Ann Ronell

4. It Don't Mean a Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing) / Duke Ellington and Irving Mills

5. Body and Soul / Johnny Green

6. Blackstick / Sidney Bechet

7. On a Clear Day / Alan Jay Lerner & Burton Lane

8. Deep Purple / Peter DeRose

9. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Cole Porter

10. Comes Love / Lew Brown, Sammy Stept & Charles Tobias

11. Lady Be Good / George Gershwin

12. Ain't Misbehavin' / Thomas "Fats" Waller.

John Cipolla is a member of the WKU Department of Music where he teaches clarinet and saxophone. A graduate of UNC Greensboro, Rutgers and Eastman School of Music, he came to WKU after working professionally in New York for nearly twenty years.

WKU grad David "Doc" Livingston has been playing since childhood and professionally since age 15. He taught band in the high schools of Harlan, Lee and Franklin Counties before returning to WKU to teach until his retirement in 1990.

Michael Kallstrom's Electric Opera is a series of four, solo vocal works with electronic tape, puppets and video. The pieces include Stoies, Stained Light, Into the Deep and Ghosts.

Flute Chamber Music featuring Heidi Pintner on flute and Donald Speer on piano showcases Michael Kallstrom's composiitons for flute.

A Florida native, Michael Kallstrom joined the WKU music department in 1987 from Westminster Choir College. He studied music at University of Miami, Florida, University of North Carolina and Florida State University. Kallstrom has over 100 compositions to his name.

The WKU orchestra in the gymnasium with Franz Strahm directing. The gymnasium is now the second floor of Helm Library.