[1] The group was founded in 1900 as the Bonne Amie Musical Circle.
[3] As late as 1990, under the direction of Ernest Brusubardis, the group had only 11 members.
[4] Starting in the 1990s the group expanded, playing public concerts in other major cities and releasing recorded music.
[5] In a review of the concert in 2000 celebrating the group's centennial, Elaine Schmidt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described them as "not the tightest ensemble in town, nor the most polished.
[7] One member, Jacob Scokir, played with the group from 1938 until his death in 2008.