Gene Kenney Scrapbook, 1956-2007

Texas Tech University. Dept. of Music

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Texas Tech University. School of Music

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Made up of twenty-five members, Texas Tech's band made it's first official appearance at the Tech vs. McMurry football game in 1925. The band got it's first official uniform in 1926 and by 1955, had grown to include 135 members. The decade of the 1960s marked the Tech Band's appearances in several major bowl games from which the band received the nickname " The Goin' Band from Raiderland." Texas Tech has offered music courses since 1925, but not until 1952 was a Bachelor...

Texas Tech University. Music Department

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John Gillas, born John Gillaspy on October 23, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, joined the faculty of Texas Tech in 1971. Mr. Gillas earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Indiana Univeristy in 1955 with a full scholarship. Upon his arrival at Indiana University, he was immediately cast in the title role of the American premiere of Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd”. Mr. Gillas served in the United States Army. He was a founding member of the United States Army Chorus. After his time in t...

Kenney, Gene

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Texas Technological College. Dept. of Music

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