Photograph of Lewis Abernathy, a North Texas alumnus, filmmaker, and producer. He wears a dark collared shirt and glasses. A woman's strand of hair has fallen in front of the camera and blocking the left side of the portrait.

Photograph of Lewis Abernathy, a North Texas alumnus, filmmaker, and producer. He wears a collared shirt, and he poses with his camera.

Photograph of filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking at the camera through the lens of a video camera wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of Filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking at the camera through the lens of a video camera wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking at the camera through the lens of a video camera wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking through the lens of a video camera off frame wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking at the camera through the lens of a video camera wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking at the camera through the lens of a video camera wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Dr. Michael B. Collins, Professor Emeritus of musicology, 1968-2001. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the military and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. He acquired native fluency in Russian and was deployed to West Germany for Iron-Curtain duty. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, studying in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow. His instrument was the piano, and he specialized in the performance of Baroque music and the history of opera. His publications include critical editions of Scarlatti’s Tigrane (Harvard University Press) and Rossini’s Otello (Fondazione Rossini), and the 1984 co-edited book Opera and Vivaldi (University of Texas).

Photograph of Filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking through the lens of a Minolta XL-sound 84 video camera off frame wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of Filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking over a clapperboard that has his name "L. Abernathy" and the date "4/13/1980" written on it.

Photograph of Filmmaker and producer Lewis Abernathy, an alumnus of North Texas State University. In the image Abernathy is looking through the lens of a Minolta XL-sound 84 video camera off frame wearing glasses and a button up shirt.

Photograph of Zip to Impress standing full side in an open pasture. The horse is held by lead line by an individual off camera.

Photograph of Sir Quincy Dan standing three quarters front in an open pasture. The horse is being held by its lead line by a man wearing all khaki and a blue baseball cap.