Guest lecture recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

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

Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houston’s full range of themes and styles. High Yello Rose deflates the Alamo myth by casting the heroes’ parts entirely with women. Isis in Nubia is a love story that sets the Isis/Osiris myth in West Africa. Black Lily and White Lily is a realistic domestic drama exploring racial tensions. Miranda Rites returns to Houston’s broadly farcical style, enacting Martha Mitchell’s last days in a hospital, where she hallucinates about Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, and is escorted to the underworld by Carmen Miranda. “It is up to the artists to be the healers, the visionaries, to retell our stories so that they resurrect us. This is what Sterling does when he collects the lives fallen and forgotten between the cracks. What a marvelous gift Sterling has given to American culture by remembering, and not remembering as some do with retribution, but with wisdom, humor, generosity, and heart. For his labor and research, for his lifework and lovework, I …

Faculty and guest artist recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Interview with David Braden, architect and Army Air Forces veteran. In the interview, Braden speaks about his impressions of General Curtis LeMay in the Pacific Theater during World War II, his assignment to Saipan, Mariana Islands, for bombing operations against the Japanese homeland, LeMay's arrival in the Marianas and changes in bombing techniques, the thirty-five mission limitation and improvement in aircrew morale, his functions as a B-29 navigator, LeMay's decision to conduct incendiary night rights at 5,000 feet, the strategic importance of Iwo Jima for bomber crews, and his assessment of how LeMay's policies made a decided difference in ending the war.

Woodrow Wilson All-Star Choir and Metroplex Children's Choir performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Wind Symphony performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Concert performed at UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center Winspear Hall.

Symphonic Band performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Concert Band performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Guest Artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty Chamber Music recital performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.