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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 26
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: A. Clyde Roller, Bohumil Makovsky, Brian Bowman, Donald Hunsberger, Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Frederick Fennell, George Edwards (marching band director), George N. Parks, Gordon Henderson (band director), Harry Begian, Jack R. Anderson, Jack Stamp, Jason Stumbo, John Barry Talley, John T. Madden, Joseph Hermann, Leonard Falcone, Mark Scatterday, Timothy Rhea, William P. Foster, William Revelli. Excerpt: William D. Revelli (February 12, 1902 - July 16, 1994) was the director of bands, including the Michigan Marching Band, at the University of Michigan for 36 years from 1935-1971. During his 36 years as director, the Michigan Marching Band won international acclaim for its musical precision. Revelli is also credited with innovations that moved college marching bands across the country away from rigid military formations. Among other things, Revelli's Michigan Marching Band was the first to synchronize music and movement and the first to use an announcer. Born in Spring Gulch, Colorado, Revelli studied violin as a child, graduated from the Beethoven Conservatory of Music in St. Louis, and received degrees from the Chicago Musical College, Columbia School of Music and Vandercook School of Music. He also played in various pit orchestras in Chicago before accepting a high-school conducting job at Hobart High School in Hobart, Indiana in 1925. Revelli transformed the Hobart High School Band into one of the best small high school bands in the country. He was music director at Hobart from 1925-1935, where his bands won either five or six national championships. In 1934, Revelli's Hobart band was invited to play at the World's Fair, and one newspaper reported: "William Revelli has developed his Hobart, Ind., class B band to a point where it is ranked by many with the best class A organizations from larger schools." In...