All hail the transformative powers of the Don Cossack Choir!

Until my lunch hour today, I had never heard of the Don Cossack Choir. But when I was researching James at the Center for American History at UT, I came across a 74-year-old letter suggesting that they may have played an instrumental (or at least a capella) role in shaping the life of my Texas-born subject.

It's things like this that make me wonder why anyone bothers to make stuff up...