Irwin Parnes

Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Irwin Parnes collection

Submitted by Maureen Russell on April 21, 2016 - 7:10pm

Los Angeles-based impresario Irwin Parnes (1917-1994) was best known for pioneering the staging of multicultural, multiethnic productions.  Parnes was the longtime managing director of the International Concerts Exchange Foundation.  He was also the manager of the Performing Arts series at the University of Judaism (now American Jewish University, Los Angeles).  From 1947 to 1992, Parnes presented 45 International Folk Dance Fes

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