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A World Famous, Yet Unknown, Countertenor: Basile Bolotine of Serge Jaroff’s Don Cossack Choir

Description: This article concerns the artistry and career of Basile Bolotine, 1895-1981, a beloved countertenor soloist in Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir. It was a world-famous a cappella Russian emigre ensemble that toured extensively all over the non-Soviet world for nearly sixty years. Bolotine had a long tenure with them, and through his recorded legacy, his music is still cherished. However, his name has remained largely unknown. This essay introduces him by name to those who have and have not yet e… more
Date: March 2022
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
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We Handle Water Music: The Crazy Water Radio Broadcast Transcription Discs at University of North Texas [Presentation Notes]

Description: Notes accompanying a presentation on the Crazy Water radio broadcasts in the UNT Music Library. This presentation was selected for the 2020 Best of Chapters presentations at the Music Library Association conference in Norfolk, VA held on February 26-March 1, 2020.
Date: February 29, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella

The Houston-Stockholm Pipeline: One Attorney's Passion for Duke Ellington's Music, and a Texas Treasury of Swedish Concerts [Presentation]

Description: Presentation on the contents and historical context of the Rhodes Baker Collection at the University of North Texas Music Library. It was presented at the 55th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference held virtually May 12-15, 2021.
Date: May 14, 2021
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
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The Houston-Stockholm Pipeline: One Attorney's Passion for Duke Ellington's Music, and a Texas Treasury of Swedish Concerts [Presentation Notes]

Description: Notes accompanying a presentation on the contents and historical context of the Rhodes Baker Collection at the University of North Texas Music Library. It was presented at the 55th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference held virtually May 12-15, 2021.
Date: May 14, 2021
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
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“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967

Description: This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
Date: 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
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Research Excursion of a Lifetime: How Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees Burnished My Reference Arsenal

Description: Presentation script for a talk given at the Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association's (TMLA) annual fall meeting held in 2022. The presentation focuses on the speaker's exhaustive research into Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees and how it has helped her serve her patrons better.
Date: November 4, 2022
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
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