Oral history interview with Jack Mahan, 1980 October 17.

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Oral history interview with Jack Mahan, 1980 October 17.

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Interview with Jack Mahan, a musician, concerning his recollections about the personal life and professional career of Colonel Earl D. Irons. Mahan discusses his student days at North Texas Agricultural College under Irons; Irons's role in the development of the high school band movement in Texas; Irons's relationship with the Texas Music Educators Association; Irons's relationship with the American Bandmasters Association; and Irons as a musician-composer.

39 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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North Texas State University. Oral History Collection.

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University of North Texas History Oral History Project.

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Texas Music Educators Association

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Organized in 1924 as the Texas Band Teachers Association, and renamed in 1937 as the Texas Band and Orchestra Association. Became the Texas Music Educators Association in 1938. Sponsors contests and promotes music education in the public schools, colleges and universities of Texas. From the description of Records, 1924-1969, 1924-1961. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 22981131 Established in 1920 as the Texas Band Teachers Association, the Texas Musi...

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Irons, Earl D., 1891-1967

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Colonel Earl D. Irons was a noted Texas bandmaster, cornetist, and composer. He served in the Army Band during World War I. In 1925 he became head of the Band and Orchestra Department at North Texas Agricultural College and from 1942 to 1956 Irons was head of the Fine Arts Department. He retired as professor emeritus of Arlington State College in 1958. Irons was also the founder of Phi Beta Mu (the national school bandmasters fraternity), and a respected amateur golfer. From the desc...

Mahan, Jack, 1911-

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American Bandmasters Association

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In the summer of 1928, Edwin Franko Goldman, leader of the Goldman Band; Victor Grabel, conductor of the Chicago Concert Band; and Captain William Stannard, Leader of the United States Army Band, met in Columbus, Ohio to discuss ways of easing the problems facing the leaders of America's professional and military bands. That August, Captain Stannard recorded his vision for the American Bandmasters Association in a letter to Albert Austin Harding, Director of Bands at the University of...