Solo Competition and Scholarship
Aside from providing entertainment to its citizens, one of the guiding principles that motivated Sol Kaufman and Ed Joachim to establish the Municipal Band was to create a musical…
Aside from providing entertainment to its citizens, one of the guiding principles that motivated Sol Kaufman and Ed Joachim to establish the Municipal Band was to create a musical…
In his 1928 autobiography Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women and Music legendary band master and March King John Philip Sousa wrote: “Strange is the boy who doesn’t love…
When Sol Kaufman and Ed Joachim began planning for a town band for Charlottesville in the spring of 1922, they faced many challenges and questions. High among those questions…
It was a Saturday afternoon in 1941. A young boy sat on the floor in front of his family’s console radio. The United States Marine Band was presenting a concert…