Julia Smith Collection (Music)

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Julia Smith Collection (Music)

1920-1989

The collection consists of compositions, music books, scores, correspondence, memorabilia, manuscripts, photographs, and recordings relating to the career of composer and University of North Texas alumna, Julia Smith (1905-1989), as well as Smith's handwritten transcriptions of more than a dozen scores by Aaron Copland.

approximately 67 boxes

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Mainous, Jean, 1920-2012

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Jean Mainous was a concert pianist, educator, and faculty member of the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Music. Born Jean Frances Harris in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 11, 1920, she studied at Louisiana State University, Yale University, and the Juilliard School, before joining the music faculty at what was then North Texas State Teachers College (now UNT). She married fellow faculty member Frank D. Mainous in 1951, and later traveled extensively as a guest artist and featured soloist. She...

Friedberg, Carl, 1872-1955

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A pianist and teacher, Carl Friedberg (1872-1955) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals, concerts with leading orchestras, and chamber music concerts with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Friedberg also was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Institute for Musical Arts, which later became the Juilliard School....

Smith, Julia, 1905-1989

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While some sources give Julia Smith's birth date as 1911, her birth certificate confirms a date of January 25, 1905 in Caldwell, Texas, to James Willis Smith and Julia Miller Smith of 1105 Mulberry Street in Denton, Texas. She took her first piano lesson from her mother, and later studied piano with Harold von Mickwitz of Dallas while she was a student at North Texas State Teachers' College. Smith graduated in 1930 with a degree in English and went to New York to study piano performance at the ...

Vashaw, Cecile, 1909-1985

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Educator, author, conductor of the Toledo (Ohio) Youth Orchestra and frequent collaborator with composer Julia Smith. ...