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 ...
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 (GMC) are a part of the American Music Research Center’s archival collections, stewarded in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Rare & ...
The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired ...
The most popular and sought after big band of all time returns to Oklahoma City for an evening of swing music at the Rose ...
Alton Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) spent three semesters at the University of Colorado before pawning his college trombone for a bus ticket to Los Angeles. While enrolled at CU, he met his ...