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…