The TH(CTC)SO Young Artists Contest (1952-1962)
David Chapman | June 5, 2026 | history@thso.org
Jim Barnes assumed leadership of the Terre Haute Civic and Teachers College Symphony Orchestra in late summer 1949. He brought with him not only a desire to see his new orchestra grow and mature, but also a passion to expand its outreach to young people, especially young musicians. In partnership with the THSOA Board of Directors, these passions manifested in expanded visits to local schools, small monetary scholarships to teenaged musicians, and — most prominently — an annual Young Artist Contest featuring some of the brightest emerging stars of the Wabash Valley music community.
In the previous blogpost, we briefly examined the first winner of that competition: David Kaiserman, student of the symphony’s own Vivien Bard. Today we will look at the nearly decade-long run of the contest and some of the young talent it spotlighted.
As we will see, it began and ended with David Kaiserman.
First Contest, 1952-1953 Season
On October 5, 1952, the Terre Haute Tribune published a preview of the THCTCSO’s upcoming 1952-1953 season. “As an added feature this year,” the unnamed writer explained, “a ‘Young Artists Audition’ will be held in January. The winner will appear as a soloist in a Young Peoples Concert on March 1, 1953. Further details of the contest will be released at a later date.”
Cover page of the first contest flyer, from internal THSO archives.
In early December, a flyer circulated in local schools and music stores (Sterchi’s, Brewer’s, and Paige’s) providing the rules of the contest and an application form for interested students.
Fourteen student musicians from all over the Wabash Valley arrived at the Fine Arts building at Indiana State Teachers College on January 10 for the audition. (Their names were printed in last week’s blogpost.) By the end of that day, 15-year-old pianist David Kaiserman of Paris, Illinois, had been announced as the winner of the inaugural contest, with Honorable Mentions given to pianist Patricia Rains of Hutsonville, Illinois, and horn player LeAnn Everly of Hymera, Indiana.
Portrait of David Kaiserman from Paris High School’s 1954 The Arena yearbook.
Kaiserman appeared as the THCTCSO’s featured soloist of the March 1, 1953, concert, performing the Andante sostenuto slow movement from Saint-Saens’ Second Piano Concert. The event was billed as a “Young People’s Concert,” with special ticket prices for school-aged students. The event was lauded afterward in local papers as a huge success. Frederick Black, reviewer for the Terre Haute Star and occasional THCTCSO pianist wrote afterward that Kaiserman played “with not only well-developed technique but with pleasing musical tone and considerable maturity of expression. Indeed, this young pianist displayed greater control and musical understanding than have some of the professional pianists who have appeared with the local orchestra. His playing reflected great credit on himself and on his teacher, Miss Vivien Bard.”
Kaiserman was just beginning his high-school relationship with the THCTCSO: he played bassoon in the orchestra for the two seasons following his contest win, and later left his hometown of Paris, Illinois, bound for New York City as a freshman piano student at the famed Juilliard School.
Program from internal THSO archives.
Second Contest, 1953-1954 Season
In December 1953, that the following seven students competed in the second annual THCTCSO Young Artist auditions:
Hilda Boatright (Greencastle, Indiana), piano
Billy Diekhoff (Terre Haute), baritone (voice)
LeAnn Everly (Shelburn, Indiana), horn
Carl F. Haas (Terre Haute), piano
Jayne Leigh Miller (Robinson, Illinois), soprano
Carol Robinson (Terre Haute), piano
Ann Taylor (Terre Haute), violin
Portrait of Hilda Faye Boatright from the Greencastle High School’s 1954 Minaret yearbook.
Of these, 17-year-old Hilda Boatright was named the winner of the second annual contest, with Honorable Mentions to LeAnn Everly (again!) and Jayne Leigh Miller. The following March, Boatright played the Allegro molto moderato first movement of Edvard Grieg’s famous Piano Concerto in A minor with the symphony.
Like Kaiserman, Boatright also joined the THCTCSO after her win, performing as a flute player for the two seasons immediately following her appearance as winner of the contest. For Boatright, Kaiserman, and all others who would go on to perform in the TH(CTC)SO, they became part of the orchestra that accompanied future contest winners!
Hilda eventually enrolled in Indiana State as a music major, graduating in 1958.
Program from internal THSO archives.
Third Contest, 1954-1955 Season
Portrait of Lynn Anderson from the Princeton High School’s 1955 The Retrospect yearbook.
In its third year, contest judges named pianist Lynn Anderson of Princeton, Indiana, as its winner. (The other competitors are not known at this time.) At the February 27, 1955, Young People’s Concert, Anderson played the Moderato assai first movement of Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Her performance was lauded afterward for its “fleet-finger technique and a considerable feeling for the romantic aspects of this brilliant work. Her playing was in general on a level of virtuosity remarkable for her years” (from a unspecified review quoted in the Princeton Daily Clarion, her hometown paper). She later attended college at DePauw in Greencastle.
Fourth Contest, 1955-1956 Season
Portrait of Elizabeth Roesch from Wiley High School’s 1959 Wileyan yearbook.
Twelve musicians competed in the contest’s fourth year, including:
Sharon Allen (Terre Haute), soprano
Sally Bush (Covington, Indiana), piano
John W. Enyart (Terre Haute), violin
Rosa Johnson (West Terre Haute), soprano
James Marr (Attica, Indiana), piano
Marquita Menke (Oaktown, Indiana), piano
Vernal Pier (Oaktown, Indiana), piano
Elizabeth Roesch (Terre Haute), soprano
Marilyn Steppe (Robinson, Illinois), piano
Joan Switzer (West Terre Haute), soprano
Ronnie Wakefield (Linton, Indiana), tenor
Kathryn Wilkes (Linton, Indiana), soprano
Portrait of John Enyart from Wiley High School’s 1958 Wileyan yearbook.
For the first time, contest judges determined that two students had tied for first place: Elizabeth Roesch and John Enyart, both attendees of Terre Haute’s Wiley High School. They performed on March 7 as co-winners of the competition. Roesch sang Giordani’s well-known “Caro mio ben,” followed by Delibes’ Passepied from Le roi s'amuse. Enyart played Seitz’s Third Student Concerto.
Like several of his predecessors in the contest, John Enyart played in the THCTCSO for several seasons following his win. He then went to Indiana State for college and on to Cincinnati.
Roesch also attended Indiana State, while continuing her vocal studies at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Fifth Contest, 1956-1957 Season
In 1956, the THCTCSO became the THSO again. Seven musicians competed in its fifth annual Young Artists contest:
Nancy E. Anderson (Terre Haute), piano
Jerry Byers (Terre Haute), sousaphone
Richard Dyche (Terre Haute), clarinet
Letha May Fagg (Terre Haute), soprano
Edward S. Johonnott, Jr. (Terre Haute), violin
Donna Martha Owens (Terre Haute), piano
Ada Price (Lawrenceville, Illinois), piano
Portrait of Nancy Anderson from Wiley High School’s 1957 Wileyan yearbook.
Nancy Anderson, a senior at Wiley High School, won the Young Artist Contest in its fifth year, with Honorable Mention going to Richard Dyche and Edward Johonnott. Like Kaiserman before her, Anderson had studied with Vivien Bard and was then a student of Stella Tatlock, the THSO’s regular pianist. At her performance with the orchestra, she performed the Molto allegro con fuoco first movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto in G Minor.
She later attended college at Northwestern University.
Program from internal THSO archives.
Sixth Contest, 1957-1958 Season
The sixth annual contest saw nine musicians compete:
Karen Blum (Paris, Illinois), soprano
Margaret Ann Bower (Terre Haute), piano
Marthann Bush (Marshall, Illinois), soprano
Richard Dyche (Terre Haute), clarinet
Carol Fine (Terre Haute), piano
Linda Marrs (Marshall, Illinois), soprano
Madeline Ann McDonald (Bloomfield, Indiana), piano and horn!
Dudley Prather (Sullivan, Indiana), piano
Catherine Jane Scott (Terre Haute) violin
Portrait of Madeline McDonald from Bloomfield High Schools’s 1958 The Owl yearbook.
Once again, two winners were announced: Madeline Ann McDonald and Richard Dyche. McDonald had competed with the Allegro affettuoso first movement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, and Dyche had played Debussy’s First Clarinet Rhapsody.
For the first time, the THSO featured the winning musicians in a pair of concerts performed in a local school. On Friday, February 28, the THSO presented a pair of concerts for local students at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School. The main concert took place two days later the THSO’s home stage in the Student Union Auditorium on Sunday, March 2.
As always, reviews in local papers were effusive in their praise for the two high-school soloists. Dyche’s playing was described as having “a fine tone and poise in handling a difficult part,” and the reviewer noted that he was “enthusiastically applauded and recalled to the stage several times by an audience impressed by his youthful skill.” McDonald’s playing “showed of surety and considerable development the mastery of the work’s rhythmic difficulties, and the attainment of a tone of pleasing, though somewhat light quality. She too, was warmly applauded for her fine playing.”
Both McDonald and Dyche later went to college at IU-Bloomington.
Program from internal THSO archives.
Seventh Contest, 1958-1959 Season
Eleven students competed in the seventh annual contest. Available newspaper reports list their names without instruments, but clues elsewhere offer some indication for a few of them:
Mary Margaret Arnold (Plainfield, Indiana), piano
Ann Bauer (Terre Haute)
Jimmy Christie (Mooresville, Indiana), flute
Carol Fine (Terre Haute)
Joanne Gosnell (Terre Haute)
Hilary Hollis (Terre Haute
John Masters (Terre Haute)
Jack N. Miller (Clinton)
Carol Parker (Fillmore, Indiana)
Susan Tucker (Terre Haute)
Sharon Wright (Robinson, Illinois), oboe
Portrait of Sharon Wright from Robinson High School’s 1958 Robinillo yearbook.
Portrait of Mary Margaret Arnold from Plainfield High School’s 1961 Silhouettes yearbook.
Co-winners this year were pianist Mary Margaret Arnold, playing the Rondo finale movement to Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, and oboist Sharon Wright, performing two movements to Handel’s Third Oboe Concerto. And once again, the THSO took its show on the road (so to speak), performing a pair of concerts for students at Wiley High School.
Wright, who was already a member of both the THSO and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a number of municipal bands along the intervening U.S. 41 corridor, became principal oboe for the THSO the following year and remained in the position throughout her college studies at Indiana State.
Arnold attended Indiana University after graduating high school, earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music, and eventually became a prominent member of the music faculty at St. Louis University.
Program from internal THSO archives.
Eighth Contest, 1959-1960
Portrait of Karol Norman from the Danville High School’s 1959 Medley yearbook.
Violinist Karol Norman of Danville, Illinois, won the eighth annual contest. She performed two movements of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto in G minor at the concert in March. Frederick Black wrote in the pages of the Terre Haute Star that “she was particularly successful in the slow movement, where her ability to produce a warm and vibrant tone was most evidence.” The following week, Norman reprised her performance in a pair of THSO concerts in the Gerstmeyer Technical High School gymnasium (demolished recently).
Program from internal THSO archives.
Ninth Contest, 1960-1961
The ninth contest ran on January 7, 1961, and ten young musicians from the region auditioned for the prize:
Bruce Berg (Greencastle, Indiana), violin
Phyllis Campbell (Attica, Indiana), soprano
Dennis Cleveland (Terre Haute), violin
Pauline Cork (Marshall, Illinois), piano
Linda Crone (Martinsville, Indiana), cello
Diane Libei (Clinton, Indiana), soprano
Martha Lynne McKeeham (Greencastle, Indiana), flute
John Morgan (Cory, Indiana), baritone (voice)
Norman Sharum, Jr. (Coalmont, Indiana), alto saxophone
Mike Workman (Terre Haute), tenor
Portrait of Phyllis Campbell from Attica High School’s 1960 Crimson yearbook.
Phyllis Campbell was named the winner, and on March 12, 1961, she performed her audition piece, “Mi chiamano Mimi” from Puccini’s La boheme with the orchestra. She followed this with Mozart’s “Alleluia” from Exultate, jubilate, and returned to the stage later in the program for “My Heart at thy Sweet Voice” from Saint-Saens’ Samson and Delilah. The Terre Haute Star reported the next day that “Miss Campbell, a senior at Attica, Ind., High School proved herself the possessor of a soprano voice of considerable purity and beauty of tone. Moreover, it is a voice already of sufficient power to sing above the orchestra and reach the last rows of the balcony. Such a voice should be capable of development in an impressive vocal instrument.”
If anyone knew that it would be the last year for the contest, they did not note it at the time.
Program from internal THSO archives.
1961-1962 Season: David Kaiserman returns
No Young Artist Contest was held in the 1961-1962 season. It isn’t clear exactly why the program ended, though there are indications in post-concert reviews in prior years that, despite ongoing student interest in the contest, audiences for the Young People’s Concerts had declined. Perhaps it was the framing inherent in the name: as enthusiastic as classical audiences might be to get young people engaged in music, they may not be as interested in paying for concerts oriented toward introducing children to the orchestra.
However, the contest remained top of mind in the programming that year, as David Kaiserman returned from his studies in New York City to perform as featured guest artist for the orchestra’s December 6, 1961, concert. In the eight years since he won the first Young Artists’ Contest, he had finished Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Juilliard, winning numerous scholarships and prizes along the way. Newspapers reported that he had been Juilliard’s only graduating pianist in his year to have earned an “exceptional” rating from the faculty, including from Van Cliburn’s own teacher Rosina Lhévinne.
(The concert was also the 35th anniversary of the THSO’s first concert in 1926… though no-one seemed to notice!)
Kaiserman played Frederic Chopin’s complete Second Piano Concerto in a concert dedicated to the memory of recently deceased Anna Hulman, his teacher Vivien Bard’s teacher and long-time THSO supporter. After the concert Frederick Black reflected on his comments from nearly a decade before: “Kaiserman still is at his best in a poetic and reflective mood. With consummate mastery of the keyboard, with a fine sense for a beautiful tone, with a musical understanding of the phrase, it was the slow movement of the Chopin ‘Concerto’ which was most exquisitely played. This was fortunate since the slow movement of this concerto is regarded as the finest of the three movements. This is not to say that the young pianist did not have the fingers of steel and the power to play with considerable bravura. It is the polish and control of each phrase, the sheer artistry, that most impressed us.”
Program from internal THSO archives.
Postscript
The end of the Young Artists’ Contest was not the final word on Barnes’ or the THSO’s work in creating opportunities for emerging musicians. Throughout the year 1961, students and community musicians had been working to secure funding and an organizing structure for a new Terre Haute Youth Symphony Orchestra. Student organizing was first reported in local papers in March 1961, and they had successfully secured support and funding from organizations throughout town, including from the office of Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker. In the same month as Kaiserman’s return to the THSO, newspapers reported that the youth symphony had formed a Board of Managers. In the early months of 1962, the board secured its first (albeit temporary) conductor: the THSO’s own Jim Barnes. Rehearsals began in mid-summer, and the THYSO held its first concert on October 2, with Barnes at the podium. The new orchestra found its first permanent conductor that same week, with newspapers reporting that music education co-ordinator for Vigo County schools, Robert Carr, would take over the position.
The story of the THYSO is not technically a THSO story, since it was a separate organization with its own independent governing structure. However, in a community like Terre Haute, no musical activity is without its ties to all others: many THYSO musicians also played in the THSO, either at the same time or graduating from one into the other; members of the THSO sat on the THYSO board; both orchestras sometimes shared billing, appearing on the same concert together; and so on.
The TH(CTC)SO’s Young Artists Contest served as a launchpad for some, and for others it was a sparkling moment in the spotlight in careers that turned to other industries. Marriages, moves, and the regular demands of adulthood took many of these twelve young artists away from Terre Haute, even away from music as a profession. But music has a way of following us even into other fields of work, and these and the many other young aspiring artists whose stories intersected with the TH(CTC)SO surely found ways to be musical wherever they went in life.
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Sources on the First Contest (1952-1953):
“Announce Rules for Symphony Artists Contest,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 4, 1952, page 18.
“Local Symphony to Sponsor Young Artist Contest in January,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 71, 1952, page 45.
“Young Musicians Will Vie for Solo Honor with Civic Orchestra,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 7, 1953, page 14.
“Two Clinton Music Students in Terre Haute Symphony Test,” Daily Clintonian, January 7, 1953, pages 1 and 8.
“15-Year-Old Paris Pianist Wins Symphony Soloist Honor,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 11, 1953, page 19.
“15-Year Old Pianist Wins Guest Soloist Honor,” Jasper Herald, January 15, 1953, page 3.
“No. 1 Young Artist to Play with Terre Haute Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, page 25.
“Symphony to Present Young Artist Sunday,” Terre Haute Tribune, February 28, 1953, page 5.
“Paris Youth Soloist in Symphony Concert,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 2, 1953, page 7.
Sources on the Second Contest (1953-1954):
“Artist Auditions,” Terre Haute Saturday Spectator, October 24, 1953, page 12.
“Auditions Planned at Local College,” Terre Haute Tribune, October 24, 1953, page 8.
“Holding Auditions for Symphony Event,” Terre Haute Tribune, October 26, 1953, page 6.
“Symphony Sponsors Contest for Young Artists, Winner to Appear as Soloist Next March,” Terre Haute Saturday Spectator, November 7, 1953, page 5.
“Close Entries for Symphony Final Contest,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 3, 1953, page 16.
“Auditions in College Test on Saturday,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 13, 1953, page 18.
“Guest Pianist,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 30, 1953, page 6.
“Young People’s Concert Planned by Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, February 21, 1954, page 26.
“Greencastle Pianist is Soloist for Young Peoples’ Concert March 7,” Terre Haute Tribune, February 28, 1954, page 25.
“Civic-Teachers Concert at College Today,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, March 7, 1954, page 21.
Sources on the Third Contest (1954-1955):
“Young Artist Contest,” Terre Haute Saturday Spectator, December 4, 1954, page 30.
“Symphony Holds Young Artist Contest for Soloist Jan. 6,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 5, 1954, page 44.
“Select Soloist in Orchestra Contest,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 20, 1954, page 5.
“Symphony in Young People’s Concert Feb 27,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, February 20, 1955, page 29.
“T. H. Symphony Young People’s Concert Today,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, February 27, 1955, page 20.
“Lynn Anderson Praised for Concert Solo,” Princeton Daily Clarion, March 6, 1955, page 1.
Sources on the Fourth Contest (1955-1956):
“Contest for Young Artists Announced by T. H. Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 8, 1956, page 26.
“Musical Contest has 12 Entries,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 19, 1956, page 8.
“Linton Musicians to Compete for Honor,” Linton Daily Citizen, January 20, 1956, page 1.
“Local Composer’s Work Featured by T. H. Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, February 26, 1955, page 26.
“Symphony Orchestra to Offer Children’s Concert,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, March 4, 1956, page 27.
“14-Year-Old Girl T. H. Symphony Orchestra Soloist Tuesday Night,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 5, 1956, page 6.
“Orchestra Program to Accent Youth,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 6, 1956, page 10.
“Young Artists Well Received with Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 8, 1956, page 12.
Sources on the Fifth Contest (1956-1957):
“T.H. Symphony Plans Contest for Young Artists,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, December 30, 1956, page 73.
“Entries to Close Monday in Local Orchestra Event,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 3, 1957, page 9.
“Young Artists in Competition Here Saturday,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 11, 1957, page 10.
“Young Artists’ Audition Won by Nancy Anderson,” Terre Haute Tribune, January 13, 1957, page 5.
“T. H. Symphony Schedules Young People’s Concert,” Terre Haute Tribune, February 17, 1957, page 27.
“Young People’s Concert,” Terre Haute Saturday Spectator, February 23, 1957, page 22.
“T. H. Symphony Presents Children’s Concert Today,” Terre Haute Tribune, February 23, 1957, page 33.
Sources on the Sixth Contest (1957-1958):
“Young Artist Contest Noted Terre Haute Symphony Project,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, September 8, 1957, page 36.
“Young Artist's’ Contest Jan. 11,” Terre Haute Star, December 21, 1957, page 12.
“Contest for Young Artists Planned Again,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, December 22, 1957, page 42.
“Monday Symphony Contest Deadline,” Terre Haute Star, January 1, 1958, page 20.
“Nine Musicians Heard Saturday in Artist Concert,” Terre Haute Star, January 10, 1958, page 4.
“T. H. Symphony Beamed to Youth This Week,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, February 23, 1958, page 41.
“T. H. Symphony to Play Friday for School Students,” February 27, 1958, page 7.
“Two High School Seniors Guest Artists with Symphony in Concert Sunday,” Terre Haute Star, March 1, 1958, page 12.
“Audition Winners to Play in Young People’s Concert,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, March 2, 1958, pages 26 and 40.
Frederick Black, “Symphony, with Two Soloists, Given Ovation in Young Peoples Concert,” Terre Haute Star, March 3, 1958, page 5.
“Young People’s Concert Features Audition Winners,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 3, 1958, page 6.
Sources on the Seventh Contest (1958-1959):
“Young People’s Concert March 15 at Student Union,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 8, 1959, page 20.
“Young People’s Concert Program is Announced,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 12, 1959, page 18.
“Area Teeners are Soloists Today with T.H. Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, March 15, 1959, page 65.
“School Children to Hear Concerts,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 17, 1959, page 3.
Sources on the Eighth Contest (1959-1960):
Beatrice Biggs, “Annual Young Artists Contest Set by Terre Haute Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 20, 1959, page 17.
“Teen Violinist Guest Artist with Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 13, 1960, page 61.
“Symphony Soloist to be Honored at Reception Sunday,” Terre Haute Star, March 18, 1960, page 7.
“Young People’s Concert Sunday,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 18, 1960, page 10.
“Youth Concert Well Received,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 21, 1960, page 5.
Frederick Black, “Symphony Pleases in Youth Concert,” Terre Haute Star, March 21, 1960, page 14.
“Symphony to Give Student Concerts,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 22, 1960, page 6.
“Symphony to Give Concerts at Tech,” Terre Haute Star, March 23, 1960, page 9.
Sources on the Ninth and final Contest (1960-1961):
“Symphony Sets Young Artists’ Contest Jan. 7,” Terre Haute Star, December 21, 1960, page 6.
“10 Vie Tomorrow for Guest Place with Symphony,” Terre Haute Star, January 6, 1961, page 12.
“Attica Girl Wins Singing Event,” Journal and Courier [Lafayette, Ind.], January 19, 1961, page 8.
“Named Guest Soloist,” Journal and Courier, March 7, 1961, page 18.
“T. H. Symphony Announces Youth Concert Program,” Terre Haute Star, March 8, 1961, page 20.
“Attice Senior, Phyllis Campbell, Sings at Symphony Concert Today,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 12, 1961, page 65.
Frederick Black, “Young Symphony Singer Acclaimed,” Terre Haute Star, March 13, 1961, page 5.
Peter Bruning, “Young People’s Concert is Fine Success,” Terre Haute Tribune, March 13, 1961, page 9.
“Reception Honors Senior Soloist,” Journal and Courier, March 14, 1961, page 12.
Sources on David Kaiserman’s return to THSO in November 1961:
Wayne Crockett, “Terre Haute Symphony Schedules Fine Concert Dec. 6,” Terre Haute Tribune-Star, November 26, 1961, page 21.
“Terre Haute Concert Set,” Indianapolis Star, November 30, 1961, page 36.
“Young Pianist to Appear Dec. 6 with Symphony,” Terre Haute Tribune, November 30, 1961, page 18.
“T. H. Symphony Orchestra Concert Next Wednesday,” Brazil Daily Times, December 1, 1961, page 14.
“Second Symphony Concert Dec 6 at Student Union,” Terre Haute Saturday Spectator, December 2, 1961, page 19.
“David Kaiserman, Paris, Ill., Pianist, Soloist with Terre Haute Orchestra,” Terre Haute Star, December 4, 1961, page 3.
“Few Tickets Remain for Concert Tonight,” Terre Haute Star, December 6, 1961, page 6.
“Concert Tickets Still Available,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 6, 1961, page 14.
Frederick Black, “Pianist Kaiserman Hugely Applauded in Local Concert,” Terre Haute Star, page 3.
William Ashbrook, “Capacity Audience Welcomes David Kaiserman in Concert,” Terre Haute Tribune, December 7, 1961, page 12.
High school yearbooks were accessed through Ancestry.com.