College Days
The North Texas College of Music had been noted for years for its symphony orchestra, opera workshop, concert and marching bands, a cappella choir, and more than a dozen smaller performing groups. Gene Hall, then a graduate student at North Texas, was asked to teach dance band arranging to two students in 1942. Soon, enrollment in the class grew to fifteen students.
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