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Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy

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Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966. Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow could not resist conducting, to Ormandy's great displeasure. By the time he was forty, Brusilow had sold his violin and formed his own chamber orchestra in Philadelphia with more than a hundred performances per year. For three years he was conductor of the Dallas Symphony, until he went on to shape the orchestral programs at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. He also made many recordings. Co-written with Robin Underdahl, his memoir is a fascinating and unique view of American …
Date: July 2015
Creator: Brusilow, Anshel & Underdahl, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 6.1 (open access)

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 6.1

Annual compilation of information about the DART system. Provides key data, maps, and contacts.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2015-2016, Graduate (open access)

Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2015-2016, Graduate

The UNT Graduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press"
Date: July 2015
Creator: University of North Texas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Landscape Irrigator's Rule Compilation (open access)

Landscape Irrigator's Rule Compilation

Guide describing regulations for landscape irrigators, with printed excerpts of relevant Texas state laws.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Office of Compliance and Enforcement.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Public Hunting Lands Map Booklet, 2015-2016 (open access)

Public Hunting Lands Map Booklet, 2015-2016

Booklet describing regulations on public hunting lands during the 2015-2016 fiscal year, with maps of locations, and other related information.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 30, No. 9, Pages 6925 to 7817, June 29, 2015 - July 24, 2015 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 30, No. 9, Pages 6925 to 7817, June 29, 2015 - July 24, 2015

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: July 2015
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 30, No. 10, Pages 7818 to 8098, Supplement (June - July 2015) (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 30, No. 10, Pages 7818 to 8098, Supplement (June - July 2015)

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: July 2015
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lee E. Cart, July 17, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Lee Cart, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; discovering homesteading and self-sufficiency; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Cart, Lee E., 1954-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., July 31, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., homesteader and simple life advocate. Heavrin shares concerning his childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
Date: July 31, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Heavrin, Keith Jr., 1946-2016
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Janine Winn, July 18, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Janine Winn, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date: July 18, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Winn, Janine, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015

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Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of meat.
Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
System: The UNT Digital Library