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The separation the audit ordered is between two piles, and both must be reported, because one of them is empty: Walkerton's own sessions — recordings made in Walkerton, or issued as a Walkerton ensemble's — and Walkerton musicians on other people's discs. Of the first pile, nothing was found: no recording session in Walkerton, no disc issued by the town band, the Military Band, or any Glenn or Walkerton High ensemble appears in any discography, catalogue or web source reached, and the invention of one would be exactly the error this section exists to prevent. The school's contest record (article #188) is a record of adjudicated performance, not of recording; ISSMA gold ratings leave scoresheets, not discs.
The second pile has exactly one name, and the separation must be printed carefully because it is easily overstated. Barry L. Houser of Walkerton — Glenn drum major 1992–1994, class of 1995 — became a band director whose recorded course belongs to Illinois: the University of Illinois Archives holds his papers (1976–2025), and its own scope note draws the line this article draws: the collection documents his Illinois work from 2011, as Assistant then Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Marching Illini (2016– ), and its audio series consists of "LP recordings of the University of Illinois Bands and a recording of the Sousa Band" — the discs of the institutions he later led, collected by him, not sessions of or by a Walkerton ensemble, and not evidence of a Walkerton recording. A Walkerton-trained musician's career on other institutions' records is the town's whole documented share of the recorded record, and it is credited to the schoolroom that trained him (article #188), not booked as a town session. Beyond Houser, no Walkerton performer was found on any other artist's disc in the sources reached. The recorded record of Walkerton, as of November 2026: no local sessions documented; one exported conductor, whose discs are Illinois's.
Sources: University of Illinois Archives, Barry L. Houser biographical record and the Barry L. Houser Papers finding aid (Sousa Archives and Center for American Music) — scope and audio series as quoted; this section's discography and catalogue searches for Walkerton performers and ensembles, November 2026 — negative as stated. Closure: MIXED — the separation is DUG and printed; the local-session negative stands at the strength of the catalogues reached, settler: the Discography of American Historical Recordings and the society's own collections, if a school or town-band disc survives anywhere, for any future claim.