[Illustration] _Great Bands of America_ _by_ _Alberta Powell Graham_ _Frontispiece by_ KURT WERTH THOMAS NELSON & SONS _Toronto_ · NEW YORK · _Edinburgh_ [Illustration] COPYRIGHT, 1951, BY ALBERTA POWELL GRAHAM All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Conventions. Published in New York by Thomas Nelson & Sons and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Thomas Nelson & Sons (Canada) Limited. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-13995 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE COLONIAL PRESS INC. _TO THOSE WHO MAKE MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE_ _OTHER BOOKS BY ALBERTA POWELL GRAHAM_ Strike Up the Band 32 Roads to the White House _For Younger Children_ Christopher Columbus, Discoverer _CONTENTS_ There’s Something About a Band 11 I Military Bands 15 UNITED STATES MARINE BAND 17 _Major William F. Santelmann_ 23 UNITED STATES NAVY BAND 27 _Commander Charles Brendler_ 32 UNITED STATES ARMY BAND 39 _Captain Hugh J. Curry_ 45 UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES BAND 49 _Lt. Colonel George S. Howard_ 53 II Concert Bands 59 _John Philip Sousa_ 59 _Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore_ 70 _Arthur Pryor_ 81 _Patrick Conway_ 87 _Edwin Franko Goldman_ 92 III Municipal Bands 105 THE ALLENTOWN BAND 107 THE BARRINGTON BAND 109 _Herbert Lincoln Clarke_ 110 _Karl King_ 121 THE BAND OF HAGERSTOWN 124 PHILADELPHIA’S MUMMERS’ PARADE 125 IV Industrial Bands 127 _Frank Simon_ 130 V The Salvation Army Band 134 _Captain Richard E. Holz_ 142 VI Merle Evans, Toscanini of the Big Top 146 VII College and University Bands 156 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BAND 157 _Albert Austin Harding_ 158 _Mark H. Hindsley_ 161 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BAND 163 _William D. Revelli_ 165