Segment by Dennis Fisher, conductor of the UNT Symphonic Band, announcing a concert featuring works by composer Don Gillis to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Founded in 1845 as a steamboat port at the entryway to western markets from the Red River, Jefferson was a thriving center of trade until the steamboat traffic dried up in the 1870s. During its heyday, the town monopolized the shipping of cotton from all points west for 150 miles. Jefferson was the unofficial capital of East Texas, but it was also typical of boom towns in general. For this topical examination of a frontier town, Bagur draws from many government documents, but also from newspaper ads and plats. These sources provide intimate details of the lives of the early citizens of Jefferson, Texas. Their story is of interest to both local and state historians as well as to the many readers interested in capturing the flavor of life in old-time East Texas. “Astoundingly complete and a model for local history research, with appeal far beyond readers who have specific interests in Jefferson.”—Fred Tarpley, author of Jefferson: Riverport to the Southwest

Interview with Dennis Fisher, conductor of the UNT Symphonic Band, discussing the background of the concert to celebrate the centennial of Don Gillis' birthday. The segment originally aired during the concert's intermission.

Interview with Andy Narell about his experience playing, composing, and teaching steel band music at UNT. It originally aired during the intermission of the Global Rhythms concert.

Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The book, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced between straightforward presentation, self-effacing humor, and lightly seasoned wisdom. It captures the day-to-day life of a somewhat cantankerous old guy, who has attitude and strong opinions. Throughout the book, Tatum ponders the causes that led him into the apparently opposing worlds of horseshoeing, with its mud, pain, and danger, and the bookish life of a college professor. He tells the reader that it is his hope that writing the book will help him understand this apparent paradox between the physical and the mental. Tatum provides a detailed description of the horseshoeing process, its history, and why horses need shoes in the first place. The reader will learn about the dangers of shoeing horses in “Injuries I Have Known,” in which Tatum describes one particular self-inflicted injury that he claims no other horseshoer has ever, or will ever, experience. “Eight Week Syndrome” demonstrates the close, often therapeutic, relationship between the horseshoer …

This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one’s own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood—all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and humor, with an intimate voice that can both whisper in our ears and grab us by the collar and implore us to listen. “What drives the poems in this wonderfully animated debut volume and prompts the reader’s pleasure in them is the patent honesty of the poet’s voice. In the ‘ventriloquist’ series itself, Fay-LeBlanc creates a remarkable refracted self-portrait, bristling with moments of unabashed illumination.”—Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fifth volume opens at Fort Wingate as Bourke prepares to visit the Navajos. Next, at the Pine River Agency, he is witness to the Sun Dance, where despite his discomfort at what he saw, he noted that during the Sun Dance piles of food and clothing were contributed by the Indians themselves, to relieve the poor among their people. Bourke continued his travels among the Zunis, the Rio Grande pueblos, and finally, with the Hopis to attend the Hopi Snake dance. The volume concludes at Fort Apache, Arizona, which is stirring with excitement over the activities of the Apache medicine man, Nakai’-dokli’ni, which Bourke spelled Na Kay do Klinni. This would erupt into bloodshed less than a week later. Volume Five is particularly important because it deals almost exclusively with Bourke’s ethnological research. Bourke’s account of the Sun Dance is particularly significant because it was the last one held by the Oglalas. The volume is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named.

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Anniversary concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A Recital to honor the 40th Anniversary of Morris Martin at UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

University of North Texas program announcing the "Four Bold Goals," featuring the UNT Symphony Orchestra, presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Chamber Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A Cappella Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music at Winspear Hall.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A symphonic band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Wind Symphony concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A World Voice Day event performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Rock Combo concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of "Opera Without Elephants: The Operas of Jake Heggie" performed at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.