Leonard B. Smith Collection 1840-2001 (bulk 1901-2000).
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Gilmore, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1829-1892
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Patrick Sarsfield (P.S.) Gilmore was born in County Galway, Ireland, on December 25, 1829, and later became known as the "Father of the American Concert Band." Gilmore organized and staged two music festivals in Boston, Massachusetts: the National Peace Jubilee (1869) and the World's Peace Jubilee (1872). He conducted bands and integrated woodwinds into what had traditionally been brass bands. He led the New York Twenty-seventh Regiment Band for almost 20 years. Gilmore also a...
Smith, Leonard B. (Leonard Bingley), 1915-2002
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Leonard B. Smith (1915-2002) was an American cornetist, concert band conductor, and band music publisher. Born September 5, 1915, in Poughkeepsie, New York, he began studying the trumpet at age 8, received a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy at 14, and joined the Edwin Franko Goldman Band at 19. During his six-year career in New York, Leonard B. Smith played the familiar trumpet call announcing the popular Lone Ranger radio program. In the 1930s he served his tenure as princip...
Goldman, Edwin Franko
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American composer and conductor of military bands. From the description of Edwin Franko Goldman autograph collection, 1823-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422799 Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956), a founder of the American Bandmasters Association and its first president, was a composer, scholar, and prominent conductor. In 1911 he formed his own band which began a summer concert series, later know as the Guggenhiem Memorial Concert Series, in New York Ci...
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932
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John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford who is also known as "The March King". Among his best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States...
