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FALL 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE: And the Beat Goes On

	Tickling the Ivories in Ivoryton
	Two Underappreciated Connecticut Composers
	Blowin’ Out the Speakers at Toad’s
	70s Hitmakers The Carpenters—from Connecticut?
	A Daughter Tells How A Jazz Great Adopted The Nutmeg State

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On the cover: Images courtesy of the Museum of Connecticut History, Toad’s Place, Oral History American Music, Kaman Corporation, The Scherer Library of Musical Theatre, Melonae’ McLean, Jim McCrary, Connecticut Historical Society, Marian Anderson Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. For full attribution, please see images inside.

Contents Features
pg 16 What These Walls Have Heard! A photo essay on New Haven’s legendary Toad’s Place. By Mary M. Donohue
Pg 22 Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer Ahead of his time, Ives may yet find an audience. By Libby Van Cleve
Pg 28 Ivoryton From East Africa to Ivoryton, piano-key manufacturing shapes a town. By Christopher Pagliuco
Pg 34 Connecticut’s Claim to Musical Theater Fame Trying out in Connecticut theaters before heading to the Great White Way. By Malcolm Johnson
Pg 40 Marching With Henry Clay Work The Connecticut composer who wrote the Union Victory song. By Dean Nelson
Departments
pg 11	From the Guest Editor: Tooting Our Horn, Musically Speaking By Jennifer Larue
pg 12	Contributors to This Issue
pg 14	Letters, etc.
pg 46	The Carpenters, New Haven Natives By William Hosley
pg 48	Shoebox Archives: My Dad, Jackie McLean. By Melonae’ McLean
pg 50	Destination: Marian Anderson Studio. By Jessica Colebrook
pg 51	Ovation Guitar. By Jennifer Huget
pg 52	Afterword: Noah Webster’s 250th Birthday and other events not to be missed this fall plus what’s new on the Connecticut History Bookshelf