369 research outputs found
The Band Program of Derral Siggard and Glen Fifield: Quote from Janis Siggard, Life History
No full textJanis Siggard describes the fabulous program that her husband, Derral Siggard, and his colleague, Glen Fifield, built at the new Carbon High School, beginning in 1959. They branded their group The Band with a Heritage and created a Master Musician program with levels and recital awards. They hosted an annual Tournament of Bands at the gym with 300 to 400 students. The Carbon High School Band quickly grew to 80 or 90 students, necessitating two bands. The bands regularly won region and state awards, and featured guest artists and conductors, including nationally famous saxophonist Gallodoro and Gary Amano playing the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto. The marching band was especially successful, with around 130 students. Derral and Glen would create the shows by making up a story and then adding music. This marching band received an invitation to the Rose Parade in 1965 and also performed in the Days of \u2747 Parade, in Chicago, at the Cheyenne Wyoming Rodeo, and the Calgary Stampede. Later, while teaching at Carbon College in the 1970s, Derral started an Auditioned Band Festival, which brought students from the region for a weekend of rehearsing and a public concert, a successful event that he ran for 20 years
Oral History Interview with Janis Siggard, October 21, 2024
No full textThis oral history interview is with Janis Siggard, a long-time piano teacher and music faculty member at the College of Eastern Utah, who discusses her and her husband Derral Siggard\u27s four decades of contributions to music education in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, after moving there in 1959. She details her private piano teaching career, the formation of the local Utah Music Teachers Association (UMTA) chapter, and events like the Summer Piano Ensemble Clinic. The interview also highlights the highly successful Carbon High School Band, which performed at the Rose Parade and other events under the direction of Derral Siggard and Glen Fifield, as well as Siggard\u27s long-standing role as the rehearsal accompanist for the annual production of Handel\u27s Messiah. Siggard emphasizes the joy, community, and talent she found in the region, noting that many of her and Derral\u27s students went on to become professional musicians
Dr. Michael Janis, Morehouse College, August 2011, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Michael Janis. Dr. Janis talks about his book, "Africa After Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media and Philosophy". Yolanda Gilmore-Bivins, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Janis Hutchinson oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. This collection includes video recordings and transcripts of interviews with Houstonians who have made contributions to the LGBT community.Dr. Janis Hutchinson is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Houston. She is a medicial anthropologist, specializing in health issues among peoples of color. She is the author of numerous journal articles and has been collecting oral histories in the African American community among African American lesbians
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No full textJanis "John" Dimitris with his Boy Scout troop in the Geestadth displaced persons camp, Germany, 1946
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No full textScrapbook information about Latvian military honours and awards, collected by Janis Dimitris
Letter from Lydia Becker to Miles Berkeley 27 June 1870
No full textThis is a PDF of a scan of a letter from Lydia Becker (1827-1890) to Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889) written on 27 June 1870. This letter is mentioned in footnote 12 of Antonovics J, Gibby M, and Hood ME. 2020. John Leigh, Lydia Becker and their shared botanical interests. Archives of Natural History (in press). The original of the letter is in personal possession of Michael Hood, co-author on this paper. Lydia Becker was a botanist and pioneer in the women's suffrage movement, and Miles Berkeley was a leading mycologist best known for his identification of the fungus responsible for potato blight, the cause of the Irish potato famine. In this letter, Becker rebukes Berkeley for describing in an article in Nature the anther-smut disease (Microbotryum) of red campion (Silene dioica) yet failing to cite her as the source of the original study. Becker also corresponded with Darwin about her work on anther smut
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