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

Chamber Orchestra performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Recital featuring new compositions performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and Latin Jazz Ensembles recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

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

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

In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplain’s eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well-trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Reid researched letters, documents, and diaries gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers, answering many questions relating to their experiences and final resting places. He also includes detailed information on battle casualty figures, equipment issued to each company, slave ownership, wealth of officers, deaths due to disease, and the effects of conscription on the regiment’s composition. “The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry helped make Walker’s Greyhound Division famous, and their story comes to life through Thomas Reid’s exhaustive research and entertaining writing style. This book should serve as a model for Civil War regimental histories.”—Terry L. Jones, author of Lee’s Tigers

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

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

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