Julia Smith papers, 1929-1992.

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Julia Smith papers, 1929-1992.

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26 cartons of music books, scores, correspondence, memorabilia, manuscripts, photographs, and recordings. Includes important materials relating to her work as Aaron Copland's first biographer and her activities with the National Federation of Music Clubs. Among the most important materials in the collection are several autograph manuscripts by Smith, including her operas Daisy and Cynthia Parker, as well as manuscripts by Copland.

390 linear feet (26 boxes) ; 32 x 39 x 26 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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SNAC Resource ID: 7547796

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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National Federation of Music Clubs

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Smith family

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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 ...

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...