But what few may realize is that the template for that concept may have started 80 years ago today - with the death of a big-band musician. On Dec. 15, 1944, Glenn Miller, one of the kings of the ...

The Glenn Miller collections (GMC) are a part of the American Music Research Center’s archival collections, stewarded in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Rare & ...

Glenn Miller’s original orchestra rose to prominence in the late 1930s and early 1940s, delivering an unmatched string of chart-topping hits and shaping the sound of American music.

On 15 December 1944, the hugely popular musician Major Glenn Miller boarded a small plane at an RAF base in Bedfordshire. The American army band leader was heading to Paris to cheer on the Allied ...

The Glenn Miller Collections preserves documentation of an important era of American entertainment industry history, where popular, jazz and classical music fused into a national conciousness. With ...

As Glenn Miller’s musical career soared, he traded in his commercial success for a military uniform to entertain US troops during World War II. Then, on a foggy afternoon, December 15 ...

SHARON – The Apollo Maennerchor Club is getting “In The Mood” to host the Glenn Miller Orchestra this evening.

Alton Glenn and Helen Miller Collection, Glenn Miller Archives, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder Capt. Glenn Miller, January 1943. Alton Glenn and Helen Miller ...

As Glenn Miller’s musical career soared, he traded in his commercial success for a military uniform to entertain US troops during World War II. Then, on a foggy afternoon, December 15 ...