Oral history interview with Robert and Daisy Rogers, 2007 September 03.

University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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University of North Texas History Oral History Project.

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Ellis, Herb, 1921-2010

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Boone, Pat

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Kenton, Stan, 1911-1979

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Stanley Newcomb Kenton was born on December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas. His family lived in California and Colorado before permanently settling in Bell, California, in the Los Angeles area. Kenton's musical career began in his teens, and made his first recordings with Gus Arnheim in 1937, joining Vido Musso's band in 1938, and organizing a rehearsal band which evolved into his own orchestra. From the 1940s onward, the Kenton band was the site of intersection between jazz, popular music, and ex...

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...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Stamm, Marvin, 1939-

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Mainous, Frank D., 1918-2007

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Frank Douglas Mainous was born on August 31, 1918, in Appalachia, Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and a Master of Music in music theory from the Eastman School of Music. Mainous joined the U.S. Army Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas, after being drafted in 1941, completed Army Music School, and directed Army bands before being transferred to the 26th "Yankee" Infantry Division. After the war, Mainous worked as an arranger and conductor for ...

Columbia University. Teachers College.

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Mears, Michelle M.

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Dickey, Imogene Bentley, 1908-

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Roberts, Jack Lundy, 1931-2004

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Jack Lundy Roberts was born on June 22, 1931 in Fort Worth, Texas, and received early instruction on the piano from William Barclay of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He studied with both Silvio and Isabel Scionti at what is now the University of North Texas, earning bachelor's and master's degrees. Roberts was awarded a Fulbright grant and studied at the Vienna Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) with Richard Hauser (1909-1970)...

Kern, Fred

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Dorn, Gerhardt

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Hibberd, Lloyd

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Novaes, Guiomar

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Epithet: Brazilian pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0003e2 ...

Ottman, Robert W.

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Oklahoma A & M College.

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Sheridan, Ann, 1915-1967

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Spivakovsky, Tossy, 1907-1998

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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America

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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was established for male musicians in 1898 as a secret society, and in 1900 became a collegiate fraternity. The Psi Chapter at the University of Oregon is now inactive. From the guide to the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Psi Chapter records, 1946-1958, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

Rogers, Bob, 1921-2013

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Pianist, professor emeritus of the UNT College of Music, and longtime volunteer in the UNT Music Library....

Gates, Nancy, 1926-....

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Chrysler family.

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Martin, Morris, 1943-

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MacCormick, Mary Ann

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Wodnicki, Adam

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Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963

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Graham, Floyd, 1902-1974

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Floyd Freeman Graham was born in Roanoke, Texas on October 15, 1902. His family moved to nearby Denton when he was two years old so that he and his elder brother, Wynne, could attend school. Both brothers later attended North Texas State Normal College, and Wynne was among the first five students awarded bachelor's degrees in 1919. Floyd Graham graduated from Denton High School in 1919. During the 1920s, he appeared in ensembles on Fort Worth and Dallas radio, taught violin, and briefly served a...

North Texas State University. School of Music

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Breeden, Leon, 1921-2010

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Harold Leon Breeden was born on October 3, 1921, in Guthrie, Oklahoma. When he was three years old, his family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, where he spent the remainder of his childhood and graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939. Breeden initially attended Texas Wesleyan College, and transferred to Texas Christian University. During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army's 69th Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Bliss. He earned both a Bachelor of Arts in music (1945) and...

Juilliard School

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Until 1946, the Juilliard School of Music was composed of two divisions, the Juilliard Graduate School (JGS) and the Institute of Musical Art (IMA), which served as the undergraduate division. The IMA was founded in 1905 by Frank Damrosch and James Loeb; in 1926 it affiliated with the JGS, established in 1924 by the Juilliard Musical Foundation. The two schools maintained separate identities until their full merger in 1946. From the description of Scholarship...

University of North Texas. College of Music

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Matthews, James Carl, 1901-1996

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Nagle, Percy.

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Music Corporation of America

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Sinatra, Frank

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The son of italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra began singing and doing impersonations in school which led to his future career as singer with the Hoboken Four in 1935. The quartet broke up in 1936 and Frank started working his way through the music industry until he finally got his big break in 1940. He would become one of Hollywood's leading men for the next two decades and a constant music hall draw after that until very close to the day he died in 1998. (Adapted from the Official Sinatra Family...

Hall, Gene, 1913-1993

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Gene Hall was born on June 12, 1913 in Whitewright, Texas. He started playing the C-melody saxophone in his youth before switching to alto saxophone. He studied music at what is now the University of North Texas between economic hardships and stints with traveling bands, ultimately playing with Floyd "'Fessor" Graham's stage band and completing a master's thesis that provided the foundation for the jazz studies program at UNT. In the mid-1940s, Hall worked as staff arranger for Fort Worth radio ...

Garden, Mary

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Scottish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Paris and Aberdeen, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1947 Sept. 16 and 1951 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863977 American soprano of Scottish birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 1958 or 1959, to Miss Burkman, 1958 or 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967492 From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : Paris, 8 June 1907, 19...

Rogers, Daisy, 1922-2018

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Daisy Rogers was born Daisy Pearl Putnam on February 18, 1922, in the former town of Red Eagle, Oklahoma. Her father worked in the oil industry, and by the 1930 census, the family had relocated to Shidler Oklahoma, and to Tulsa by the 1940 census. She graduated from Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State University) with a degree in home economics, and married Robert Jean "Bob" Rogers in Tulsa in 1944, later moving with him to New York City, and to Denton, Texas. She was active as a volunte...