Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode chronicles the formation of the Moonmaids vocal ensemble as the Swingtet at what was then North Texas State Teachers College, and their rise to national fame in the late 1940s with big band leader Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra. The podcast includes selections featuring the singers on WFAA radio in Dallas, at the former Camp Howze in Gainesville, TX, and live from Denton with Vaughn Monroe in 1949.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode focuses on Bob McGrath's little-known career as a popular singer in Japan before he joined Sesame Street.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information about composer Merritt Johnson with selected recordings of his music, and was created in memory of Susan Vaughan.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information and selected recordings related to four major figures in jazz who attended North Texas State Teachers College in the early 1940s: Herb Ellis, Jimmy Giuffre, Gene Roland, and Harry Babasin. The recordings include selections from on-campus concerts featuring Giuffre and Ellis in the 1950s and 1970s, respectively, and from both artists again in the Jazz Lecture Series in 1983.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library providing a biography of UNT College of Music faculty member Bob Rogers with selected recordings of his music. The recording was made in honor of the 75th anniversary of the UNT Music Library.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information about composer and longtime UNT College of Music faculty member Larry Austin, with selected recordings of his music. This recording was made to celebrate the donation of Austin's collection to the UNT Music Library.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides background about the early days of the jazz studies program at UNT. It includes recordings of oral histories by Gene Hall and Walter Hodgson, along with performances from 'Fessor Graham's stage show and 1950s jazz ensembles from UNT, including the Laboratory Dance Band, the forerunner of the One O'Clock Lab Band.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information about composer and longtime UNT College of Music faculty member William P. Latham with selected recordings of his music.

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode describes five major collections of materials related to Duke Ellington, including multiple sound recordings which are unreleased according to available discographical information: Ellington at the Paramount Theater, April 30, 1947; Ellington on WWDC radio, April 21, 1946; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, March 27, 1948; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, September 5, 1973; Swedish telecast, February 7, 1963; Goteborg, Sweden, November 6, 1958; Milan, Italy, January 15, 1967.

Podcast interviewing with six members of the MARTIAL Eagles Living Learning Community about the influence of music in their lives and their experiences at UNT and in the MARTIAL Eagles program.

Presentation given as part of the session "Cataloging, Preservation, and Discovery of Radio Content in Music Libraries and Archives" at the 2018 Music Library Association conference in Portland, Oregon.

Presentation given as part of the session "Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows" at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

Notes to accompany a presentation given as part of the session "Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows" at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

Presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.

Notes accompanying a presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.

Recording of Christian Zanési's Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer. The composer has these remarks on the creation of this piece: In 1996, on the initiative of the Experimental Music Group of Bourges (GMEB), around a hundred composers paid tribute to Pierre Schaeffer. It was on this occasion that I composed a short, outdated waltz, the theme of which is childhood (it is said of Pierre Schaeffer that, when he was a few years old, he would have written a 'treatise on the hoop'). Later, I continued: the railway, the sound object, the single man, relativity in all things to evoke this multiple man who played with all registers and all voices. So many faces which, superimposed, draw a single form. As for Arkheion, the words of Stockhausen (1995) I composed this work from archives (from the Greek, arkheion). Karlheinz Stockhausen was a kind of distant and inaccessible angel, the ideal situation. I had only used one spoken document then. For Pierre Schaeffer, who is closer to me (I took his classes at the conservatory and produced several radio programs with him) I took, here and there, fragments discovered at random in the considerable mass of archives concerning him. With …

Recording of Peter Manning's The ghost of Eriboll. This programmatic work is a commentary on our natural environment and the urgent need to preserve the increasingly fragile ecology of so many hitherto unspoilt regions for the benefit of future generations. Loch Eriboll is to be found on the north coast of Scotland, creating an inlet which cuts deep into the countryside of Sutherland, an area of outstanding natural beauty, characterised by rich fishing grounds, rising mountains and tracts of wild moor land, from which and upon which small groups of fishermen and crofters have sought to maintain an existence in circumstances which have often been harsh and inhospitable. As the years have gone by so this way of life has come under threat with increasing industrialisation around the coast from the east, for example the nuclear power station built at Dounreay and numerous installations to support the North Sea oil industry. This piece is a soundscape, which reflects upon the survival of these communities down the ages and the uncertainty, which faces those who remain. All the source material is drawn from the archives of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. The transformations of these aural …

Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the 7 loudspeakers configured in the space. The piece is based on modulations of extremely high frequencies, up to the limits of the audible, whose dynamic degree barely reaches the threshold of perception. What is significant vis-à-vis the content of the play is their interruption by documentary material: news in different languages, interviews, recordings of demonstrations, reports and documents from the archives, and synthetically generated or processed sounds of associative character. This confrontation of situational elements with documentary elements generates contradictory tensions in space. The architectural form of this one is also substantial: first of all, the space is presented in a neutral way, not done on purpose for pleasure. The exposed location of the dome provides openness, …

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: Centennial Series,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and was a subset of the radio series "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend". The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Overture to The Barber of Seville by Giaochino Rossini, Symphony No. 5 "Reformation" by Felix Mendelssohn, and includes an interview with Dr. Dorman Winfrey.

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes a performance of Weber's Overture to Euryanthe and features Toscanini: The Metropolitan Years, Part I, about Toscanini's time at The Metropolitan Opera.

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Wagner's Faust Overture and Schubert's Symphony no. 5, and an interview with publisher Marziale Sisca.

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances and rehearsal outtakes of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz and Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, and features an interview with NBC's vice president of programming, Robert Wogan.

This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes a performance of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda and features Toscanini: The Metropolitan Years, Part II, about Toscanini's time at the Metropolitan Opera.