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BANC MSS 2001/119 c
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Collection Title: Madi Bacon papers
Date (inclusive): 1831-1999
Date (bulk): 1920-1970
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2001/119 c
Creator:
Bacon, Madi
Extent:
5 boxes, 4 cartons, 1 oversize box
7.5 linear feet
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Madi Bacon Papers, 1831-1999, contain the correspondence, professional files, family correspondence, and ephemera of the
founder of the San Francisco Boys Chorus. A musical conductor and voice teacher, Bacon lived and worked in the Bay Area from
1946 until her death in 2001. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with and amongst her family. Also included
are her personal files relating to the San Franicsco Boys Chorus and other professional activities.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English, German
Access Information
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Madi Bacon Papers, BANC MSS 2001/119 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Alternative Form of Materials Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Removed or Separated Material
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2001.200).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990.
Bacon, Madi -- Archives.
San Francisco Boys Chorus -- History -- Sources.
Choirs (Music) -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Conductors (Music) -- California -- San Francisco.
Voice teachers -- California -- San Francisco.
The Madi Bacon Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by the Madi Bacon Trust in 2001.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2005.
Biography/Organization History
Madi Bacon grew up in Chicago, the only daughter of Charles Sumner Bacon, an eminent gynecologist, and his Austrian wife,
Misa. Madi trained in music under the tutelage of her mother, attended the Frances Parker School and the University of Chicago,
where she received her BA in Languages and later her MA in Music. She started her musical career directing a madrigal choir
in Winnetka, Illinois, then she taught at Roosevelt University, Chicago. Madi first came to California in 1928, where she
taught sports and music at the Katharine Branson School. In 1946 she returned to Berkeley to run the music program for the
University of California Extension and then went on to found and develop the renowned San Francisco Boys Chorus. Because of
her passion for sports and the outdoors she also founded the San Francisco Boys Chorus Summer Music Camps.
From the Memorial Program for Madi Bacon, February 24, 2001.
Scope and Content Note
The Madi Bacon Papers, 1831-1999, contain the correspondence, professional files, family correspondence, and ephemera of the
founder of the San Francisco Boys Chorus. A musical conductor and voice teacher, Bacon lived and worked in the Bay Area from
1946 until her death in 2001. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with and amongst her family. Also included
are her personal files relating to the San Franicsco Boys Chorus and other professional activities.