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Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy

Description: Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make… more
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Date: July 2015
Creator: Brusilow, Anshel & Underdahl, Robin
Partner: UNT Press
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[College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism and College of Visual Arts and Design Spring 2015 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video recording of the College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism and College of Visual Arts and Design Spring 2015 commencement ceremony held at the Coliseum on Friday, May 16 at 8:30 a.m. The ceremony includes remarks by Dean of the College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism Dr. Judith C. Forney and Dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design Eric Ligon.
Date: May 16, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Participant Perspectives: Investigating the Experience of Low-Income Schizophrenics in Clinical Research Trials

Description: The continued investigation into the experiences of individuals with schizophrenia who participate in biomedical research trials is necessary in order to understand participants’ perspectives, motivations, attitudes, values, and beliefs. As important stakeholders in the clinical research process, participant feedback is significant and can help shed light on, not only their experiences, but also deepen understandings when it comes to clinical trial participants’ perceptions of informed consent … more
Date: May 2015
Creator: Green, Asha M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-century British Jamaica

Description: White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated the metropole. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from “proper” British societal norms. Inhabiting a space dominated by a tropical climate and the presence of a large enslaved African population opened white women to censure. Almost from the moment of colonial encounter, they were perceived not as proper British women but as an imperial “other,” inhabiting a middle space… more
Date: December 2015
Creator: Northrop, Chloe Aubra
Partner: UNT Libraries
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