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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Culture of Concert Band Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Band music in the form of concert band repertoire and military band journals of band music were evident in the early eighteenth century. The first real breakthrough came in 1909 when Gustav Holst composed the British band classic First Suite in Eb which has become a staple in the band library. He added his Second Suite in F in 1911.

 Original music for band was available in vast quantities from publishers as early as 1851(Groves), but unfortunately most of the material was boring and dull. The only real contribution was in the field of marches where there was an enormous proliferation. Some European band composers were responsible for tuneful overtures and waltzes such as Czech composer Julius Fücik. But by and large the concert band programs were filled with transcriptions for band of piano and symphonic music particularly overtures from opera.]]></description>
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		<title>Early Jazz and Concert/Military Band Instruments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack&#8217;s Musings / Contributed by Jack Kopstein Jazz was still in its embryonic stage in the first decade of the 20th century. Some of the first jazz icons, trumpeter Louis Armstrong and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, were born in 1901 and 1903, respectively. Both began their careers in marching bands . They were most likely exposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Famous Marches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musings: Famous Marches By Jack Kopstein The following is a list of popular marches from around the world that are frequently performed. They are in alphabetical order for easy reading. No doubt there are other marches which are featured in concert or on parade. This list contains some well known and lesser known marches which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Henry Fillmore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musings Henry Fillmore By Jack Kopstein As an American musical icon, Henry Fillmore’s musical career spanned over fifty years. He continuously flooded the band music market under several names. For easy band music, Mr. Fillmore used the name Harold Bennett. He used the names Will Huff and Al Hayes for band music of medium difficulty. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUSINGS Contributed By Jack Kopstein Marches have a Role in Musical Tastes. New research is shedding light on why not everyone swoons to the sounds of latest pop sensation Justin Bieber. In a study published in Current Biology researchers have found clues as to why some musical combinations sound so sweet, while others are downright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Another March Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another March Perspective By Jack Kopstein Recently I set to work to research an entire parcel of known marches of every type and style. I want to point out that I approached this subject from a different perspective. Often the measures employed with reference to marches are numerous performances on recordings. This method, although the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Songs of the Soldier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lives of soldiers in the armies of the world have often been expressed in song. Cavalry troops often sang on the march. ‘Singers to the Front” would be the shout and the men would form up in three lines while rare songs of every description were heroically voiced. Troopships, particularly of the British Navy were a hotbed of sing-songs with sailors and soldiers joining in and provided instrumental backgrounds with fiddles and concertinas.]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: TUNES OF GLORY &#8211; Marches of Two World Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twentieth century will be remembered mostly, not for innovations, but the two largest conflicts in world history. The Great War from 1914 to 1918 was to be the “War to End All Wars,” but within 21 years the world again was involved in a terrible clash. The world still is engaged in a horrible conflict. It is, however, music which seems to have the ability to transcend the quarrel. Many marches have been written to memorialize the battles and military units.]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Paul Lavalle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Lavalle was a conductor, composer, arranger and performer on clarinet and saxophone. He was born Joseph Usifer on September 6, 1908 in Beacon, New York, and died in Harrisonburg, Virginia on June 24, 1997.

Lavalle’s parents were Ralph and Jennie Usifer, both Italian immigrants. Graduating from Beacon High School, he planned to study law at Columbia University. After winning a scholarship there, Lavalle studied music at the Juilliard School and was a student of composition of Joseph Schillinger. He performed in many 1930s bands, including one in Havana, Cuba. In 1933, he became an arranger and clarinetist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. His first composition to be performed with this orchestra was Symphonic Rhumba (1939), conducted by Leopold Stokowski on December 6, 1942.]]></description>
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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Musings: Lt Charles Benter and the US Navy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[L t Charles Benter certainly must take his place as one of the pioneers of military music in the United States. Whereas many military band leaders succeeded to the leadership of well-known military musical ensembles steeped in tradition, he founded his own organization, brought it to a state of perfection and remained as the leader of the Navy band from 1919 to his retirement in 1942. He was Born in New York, New York in 1887 and died in Washington, D.C in 1964.]]></description>
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