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Oral History Interview with Merrill Ellis, July 1-2, 1981
Interview with Merrill Ellis, a composer and music professor at the University of North Texas, regarding his education, career in music, compositions, and the developments he spearheaded in the field of electronic compostion.
Date:
July 2, 1981
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Mailman, Martin S. & Ellis, Merrill, 1916-1981
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Murphy, April 6 and 13, 2021
Video recording of interview with John Murphy, UNT professor of jazz studies. Murphy discusses his youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society; His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986); playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab Band and at venues around Denton; His research as an ethnomusicologist studying Cuban and Brazilian music and work as a professor at Western Illinois University (1992-2001) then the University of North Texas (2001-2020) where he served in faculty and administrative roles to further develop the jazz studies program and help preserve the program’s history.
Date:
{2021-04-06,2021-04-13}
Creator:
Noel, Heather & Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, November 17, 1978
Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator and former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music, concerning his experiences as dean of NTSU School of Music. Hodgson discusses his early years at NTSU, the development of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean. He also comments on the following people: Silvio Scionti, Mary McCormic, George Morey, Frank McKinley, Wilfred Bain, Lloyd Hibberd, Helen Hewitt, Harry Parshall, Frank Mainous, Maurice McAdow, Ralph Daniel, Walter Robert, Floyd Graham, and John Haynie.
Date:
November 17, 1978
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Myers, Marceau & Hodgson, W. H. (Walter H.)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978
Interview with Wilfred Bain, dean of the North Texas State University School of Music from 1938-1947, concerning his experiences in the establishment of the NTSU School of Music as one of national prominence. Bain discusses his education and musical background, his appointment as chairman of the Department of Music, the establishment of the NTSU School of Music and his appointment as dean, the establishment of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean of the School of Music at Indiana University. He also comments on President W. Joseph McConnell, Silvio Scionti, Floyd Graham, Mary McCormic, Helen Hewitt, Walter Robert, Ralph Daniel, and the "Aces of Collegeland."
Date:
December 12, 1978
Creator:
Myers, Marceau & Bain, Wilfred C. (Wilfred Conwell), 1908-1997
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David McGuire, April 2, 1990
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Interview with David McGuire, a college professor from Waldo, Kansas, regarding his education and music background, career in music education at the University of North Texas, the development of the College of Music, and band history.
Date:
April 2, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & McGuire, David C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marla Bullard, December 14, 2003
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Interview with salesperson Marla Bullard. The interview includes Bullard's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Bullard talks about her Mexican-American family values, her use of drugs and alcohol in high school, her attitudes toward the Vietnam War, hippie activities at Allen's Landing in Houston, Texas, conflicts between rednecks and hippies, her attraction to the musical groups of the Sixties, the importance of lyrics in Sixties music, her decision to attend the festival, drug use at the festival, Janis Joplin's performance, and the influence of the festival on her life.
Date:
December 14, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Bullard, Marla
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Randell Fields, December 4, 2003
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Interview with Randell Fields. The interview includes Fields' personal experiences about attending the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, Texas, early youth in rural Texas, and transferring high schools. Fields also talks about attendance at the "Big D Jamboree," the effects of his parent's divorce and influence of his young stepmother's interest in current music, student challenges to authority at North Texas Mesquite High School, rock 'n roll music of the Sixties, the influence of the radio station KZEW, attending the festival accompanied by his brother, sister, and father, observing the festival from outside the grounds, and the significance of the festival.
Date:
December 4, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Fields, Randell
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joe Cole, January 20, 2004
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Interview with photojournalist and artist Joe Cole. The interview includes Cole's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Cole talks about his parents' reaction to changes in the Sixties, his introduction to marijuana, his attraction to the music of the Beatles, his initial introduction to the Fort Worth hippie culture, his views towards the Vietnam war, obtaining an agricultural exemption from his local draft board, Sixties music and its message, his comments about the Chicago Transit Authority, Canned Heat, and Led Zeppelin, activities of the Hog Farm, drug usage at the festival, festival security personnel, "bad trip" tents, skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas, and the lasting influence of the festival on his life.
Date:
January 20, 2004
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Cole, Joe
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Corey, November 19, 2003
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Interview with businessman Harold Corey. The interview includes Corey's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Corey talks about his parents' reaction to the social, political, and cultural changes of the Sixties, his early interest in popular music, protests against the Vietnam War, conflicts with the redneck culture, the influence of the Beatles on the music of the Sixties, the influence of the "British Invasion," meeting the Grand Funk Railroad at the festival, Hog Farm, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the sale and use of drugs, the trip tent, festival security, activities at the campgrounds, comments about Ten Years After, and the lasting effects of the festival on his life. The interview includes an appendix with a campground map and festival advertisement.
Date:
November 19, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Corey, Harold
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Haynie, May 4, 1990
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Interview with John Haynie, professor of trumpet at the University of North Texas from Ralls, Texas, regarding his career at the College of Music at UNT, the growth and development of the school, his colleagues, students, and family.
Date:
May 4, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & Haynie, John
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Johnny Cox, February 14, 2004
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Interview with printer Johnny Cox. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences about attending the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, Texas, enrolling in Texas Tech University, and playing in bands while at Texas Tech. Cox talks about generational conflicts with his parents, taking guitar lessons as a teenager, the appeal of the Beatles and their music, his high school friends and activities, changing clothing styles in the Sixties, meeting his first wife, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival, drug use at the festival, his first personal use of LSD, how LSD put the music in a different perspective for him, the "free stage," and the Texas International Pop Festival as a turning point in his life. He also comments on Janis Joplin's performance, Canned Heat and B.B. King, the performances of Led Zeppelin and Spirit, and crowd behavior at the festival.
Date:
February 14, 2004
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Cox, Johnny
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank McKinley, April 16, 1990
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Interview with Frank McKinley concerning his career in music at the University of North Texas, where he was director of choral music at the School of music at North Texas State College and North Texas State University, which became UNT. McKinley discusses his educational background, musical training, and his colleagues.
Date:
April 16, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & McKinley, Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, March 10, 1977
Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator, concerning his recollections of the formation of the jazz program at North Texas State College while dean of the School of Music.
Date:
March 10, 1977
Creator:
Wysocki, Kathy & Hodgson, Walter H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Gene Hall, February 1991
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Interviews with Morris E. ("Gene") Hall, a musician and college professor, concerning his reflections and personal role in establishing the jazz studies program in the College of Music at North Texas State College.
Date:
February 1991
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Cogswell, Michael & Hall, Gene (Conductor)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph of Quakertown Residents]
Photograph of a large group of people out-of-doors. There is a group of men in the center of the image, including several wearing mariachi garb and holding instruments. A woman and young girl are walking past on the far left, in the foreground. A handwritten note on the back says "Quakertown Residents."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Kim Phillips, March 20, 2013
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Interview with Kim Phillips, vice-president of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Longview, Texas. Phillips discusses her love of Denton, her childhood and education, the music scene, the sense of community,, the CVB's work, local history, Quakertown, the Chamber of Commerce, the black and Hispanic communities, and the Confederate memorial. In appendix is a picture of Denton County Courthouse and the County Confederate Memorial.
Date:
March 20, 2013
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & Phillips, Kim
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leon Brown, September 29, 1982
Interview with Leon Brown, professor of Trombone at the School of Music at North Texas State University. Brown discusses his work with Bob Makovsky, former band director and music department head at Oklahoma A&M College.
Date:
September 29, 1982
Creator:
Dugger, Rick & Brown, Leon
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gladys Barnes Lawhon, May 22, 2008
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Interview with long-time Denton resident Gladys Barns Lawhon for the Denton Historical Commission Museum. The interview includes Lawhon's family history, personal experiences about her childhood, life in Denton, impressions of neighbors, teaching music, and her travels for the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
Date:
May 22, 2008
Creator:
Nelson, Martha Len & Lawhon, Gladys Barnes
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Anna Harriet Heyer, November 30, 1991
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Transcript of an interview with Anna Harriet Heyer, the first full-time music librarian of North Texas, concerning her experiences during the development of the Music Library at North Texas State College from 1940 to 1965.
Date:
November 30, 1991
Creator:
Dickey, Richard C. & Heyer, Anna Harriet, 1909-2002
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gudrun Raschen, November 1, 2009
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Transcript of an interview with Gudrun Raschen, a German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman's University. Raschen shares concerning her childhood, and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents' move to South Africa; own move to South Africa; discovery of the cello and decision to study it seriously; involvement in anti-apartheid movement; decision to move to the U.S. for graduate school; attraction of UNT Doctorate of Musical Arts program; first impressions of the U.S. and of Denton; comparison and contrast of life in Germany, South Africa, and the U.S.; plans for the future.
Date:
November 1, 2009
Creator:
Schnur, Abra & Raschen, Gudrun
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Youth Choir at Mount Pilgrim Christian Methodist Episcopal Church]
Photograph of the youth choir at Mount Pilgrim C.M.E. Church in Denton, Texas posing together outside of a building. Several adults are standing on either side of the choir including Pastor Johnny Alexander on the far right. The choir was directed by Gloria Stevens and Pastor Alexander.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Susan Khammash, March 2, 2003
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Transcript of an interview with with Susan Khammash concerning her recollections while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, August 30-September 1, 1969, in Lewisville, Texas. Khammash discusses her early interest in popular music, particularly The Beatles; her rejection of middle-class cultural values; influence of the Vietnam War on young people; her decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; her involvement with the Back-To-Earth movement; cowboys, bikers, and townfolk; security; alcohol and drug use; activities of the Hog Farm; medical and camping facilities; "Wavy Gravy" (Hugh Romney); Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Ten Years After, Chicago, and Janis Joplin; her thoughts about environmentalism; the women's movement; the role of music as a reflection of the hippie movement of the Sixties.
Date:
March 2, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Khammash, Susan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carl Denmon, April 8, 2006
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Interview with Carl Denmon, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Denmon's personal experiences about childhood in Houston, Texas and undergraduate education at Wiley College. Additionally, Denmon discusses his employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton, graduate studies in Music and Education at NTSU, his career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College, and his perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years.
Date:
April 8, 2006
Creator:
Johnson, Michael & Denmon, Carl
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Teasley, June 2, 1992
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Interview with Elizabeth Teasley, a librarian, concerning her experiences as a student in the Library School at North Texas State College and as a public school librarian. Interview includes biographical information of Teasley and her parents.
Date:
June 2, 1992
Creator:
Dickey, Richard & Teasley, Elizabeth
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library