Dougherty County GaArchives Photo Group.....Bland, Mrs. Students Piano Recital 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: MaryAnn Caldbeck RAllen4734@aol.com September 17, 2009, 7:20 am Source: Personal Photo Collection Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty/photos/blandmrs23931ph.jpg Image file size: 78.2 Kb The picture is of Piano Recital Mrs. Anna Bland taught piano lessons in Albany, GA from the 1940s until 1971. This is a group photo of her students from one of her recitals @1957. Mrs. Bland is third from left on back row. In the early years her recitals were held in the auditorium at Albany Junior High School. Lonsbergs Music Store would move her two pianos from her home to the junior high school for the recital and then move them back to her home the next day. She always used big vases of glads on the stage around the pianos. She would have a little reception for the students, their families, and visitors and would serve punch and cookies or little cakes from that wonderful bakery on N. Jefferson St. The recitals were very formal back then with the girls wearing evening dresses and the boys wearing suits. In the late 1960s she began having the recitals at Central Baptist Church. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty/photos/blandmrs23931ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb