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[Leon Breeden Scrapbook: 1961]

Description: Scrapbook of materials including photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, performance programs, and various other notes and ephemera documenting the activities of the North Texas State College One O'Clock Lab Band during 1961.
Date: 1961~
Creator: Breeden, Leon

Die Mauer

Description: Recording of Armand Gutheim's Die Mauer. The sight of the former wall, which divided Europe in two, and the feeling that it evoked, was the perfect subject for an electroacoustic piece. Divided into three parts (1. Construction 1961, 2. Checkpoint 1975 and 3. Destruction 1989). Several acoustic instruments, tools and sounds were originally used at the recordings as well as a choir. Nevertheless, they were all processed and adapted into the electroacoustic concept that can be heard. The result b… more
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Date: 1961/1989
Duration: 9 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Gutheim, Armand

Musica Para Danza

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's Musica Para Danza. This is the composer's first work for electroacoustic tape and was created using an oscillator and tape recorders.
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Date: 1961
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles"

Description: Recording of Clarence Barlow's Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles". This work started as the second movement of the composers Piano Concerto No. 1 in D and as years past and music changed, the piece changed as well. The composer notes the musical differences throughout the progression of the piece as a reflection of the decade it was written. It was premiered as an orchestral piece in Reykjavik with soloist Deborah Richards and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
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Date: 1961/1998
Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Barlow, Klarenz, 1945-

[Stan Kenton at Sandia AFB]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton standing next to Georgi Edwards (Miss New Mexico) and Jimmy Paul from station KOB (NBC) Albuquerque. The three are posing together behind a microphone on a stand; Miss Edwards is holding a large bouquet of flowers. Behind them, men holding instruments are sitting in rows. The photograph was most likely taken at the Officer's Club at Sandia A.F.B. in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: July 1, 1961
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