Lynn L. Sams papers

Evans, Merle

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Born in Columbus, Kansas in 1891, Merle Evans joined the S.W. Brundage Carnival Band as a cornetist at the age of fifteen. For the next ten years, he traveled throughout the United States with a number of theater and comedy shows, eventually becoming bandmaster with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In 1919, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circuses merged to form what they promoted as "The Greatest Show on Earth." Evans was selected as bandmaster for the newly combined circus, a post he he...

Bachman, Harold B., 1892-1972

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Harold Bachman (1892-1972) was a prominent music educator and military bandleader. During World War I, Bachman served as Bandleader of the 116th Engineer Band, and after the war he organized and conducted a professional concert band known as Bachman's Million Dollar Band. During In many ways, Harold Burton Bachman's extraordinary life traces the major currents of the band movement in America. Bachman's leadership of military, professional, and student bands through countless performances during ...

American Bandmasters Association

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In the summer of 1928, Edwin Franko Goldman, leader of the Goldman Band; Victor Grabel, conductor of the Chicago Concert Band; and Captain William Stannard, Leader of the United States Army Band, met in Columbus, Ohio to discuss ways of easing the problems facing the leaders of America's professional and military bands. That August, Captain Stannard recorded his vision for the American Bandmasters Association in a letter to Albert Austin Harding, Director of Bands at the University of...

Foster, William P. (William Patrick)

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William P. Foster (1919- ) received his bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), in 1941. He went on to receive a master's degree from Wayne State University in 1950, a Doctor of Education with a major in music from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1955, and the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Florida A&M University in 1998. Foster served as the band conductor for Florida A&M University where he created a broad range of innovations ...

LaMonaca, Caesar.

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King, Karl, 1891-1971

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Santelmann, William F. (1902-1984)

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William F. Santelmann was 21st Leader/Director of the United States Marine Band, serving from 1940-1955. Santelmann was born in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 1902. His musical training began at age six when he studied violin with his father, then-Director of the Marine Band Captain William H. Santelmann. He attended the McKinley Manual Training High School in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1921. Santelmann attended Washington College of Music followed by the New England Conservatory of Musi...

Cimera, Jaroslav, 1885-1972

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Mancini, Frank T.

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Wright, Al G. (Alfred George James), 1916-2020

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The conductor, educator, and composer Al Wright (b. 1916 - d. 2020) was born in London, England, and attended public school in Pontiac, Michigan. In high school he was recruited to play french horn in the band. He went on to earn bachelors (1937) and masters (1947) degrees from the University of Miami in Florida. While in Florida he served as director of the Miami Senior High School Band and Symphony Orchestra (1938-1954), co-directed the Orange Bowl half-time show, and served as President of th...

Clarke, Herbert L. (Herbert Lincoln), 1867-1945

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Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945), cornetist, composer, bandleader and educator was considered the King of the cornet in his day. He first studied the violin at the age of 5 and at 13 began playing professionally in the Philharmonic Society Orchestra of Toronto. At the same time he began to study the cornet and soon began to play it professionally in a restaurant band and in the Queen's Own Regimental Band. After a move to Indianapolis, Clarke learned to play the viola and subsequently ...

Yoder, Paul

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Paul Van Buskirk Yoder (1908-1990) was born in Tacoma, Washington on October 8, 1908. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1930 and taught music in public schools in Aurora, Illinois and Evansville, Indiana until 1936. While living in Chicago, working as a free-lance composer for several music publishing houses, Yoder completed a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University in 1941. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota in 1...