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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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102 On the Banks of the Boneyard News-Gazette leading bandsmen and were in attendance. What WHAT MAKES U. I. BAND GREAT? DIRECTOR, GOOD PLAYERS, SAY LEADERS March 27, 1938. By FEAN MYERS News-Gazette University Editor "What makes a band great ?" Long the University of Illinois band has been extolled as the "greatest university band." John Philip Sousa once said this of the band, and it's still true today. But why ? Noted bandmasters the nation over explain the reasons. "To be great, a band must have first, good players, and second, a good director," Edwin Franko Goldman, famous conductor of the Goldman band of New York City, who has just composed his 83d march, explained when approached on this subject. ,, "No band," he warned, "is better than its conductor. Prof. Harding has set a high standard here and I'm sure he has maintained it. He is a fine musician and a great organizer. He set a goal and reached it. He made up his mind he wanted a band of great proportion and players who could play." Director Goldman added: "The University of Illinois hand attracts the better high school players. They aspire to make it. The band is made up of evenly balanced players in all sections. In most of our bands the second, third, and fourth parts do not play as well as the first parts. In the University band, all parts play equally well. This is the finest university band in the world. There is no university band that can compare with it. And very few professional bands can compare with it. "To give the marvelous concerts this band played—referring to the two last week—the University bandsmen have to be able to play their instruments." Karl L. King, Ft. Dodge, la., newly elected president, American Bandmasters' Association, composer of many marches for the Illini band, takes the story on: . "It's the man, Harding, who has made the University band great/' Director King stated. " H e has been the father of the school band movement in the United States. His band has been the i» band heads. JJirector King, who ran away from a job in a newspaper composing room to play baritone in a circus—he played 10 years with Sells-Floto and Buffalo Bill, and Barnum and Bailey—pointed to Prof. Hardine's work as head of the school band clinics. « « < I p I jutf pep [ ] I rtf I W | & B A l BB h v
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