BUILDING THE ARMY BAND

Evening Star, Issue 16780, 8 July 1918, Page 5

BUILDING THE ARMY BAND

FBt Ostit* !S»tck Hvwusx, Band Load«r, 19th Gwalry, U.S.A.]

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Men are detailed to the school by the War Department (after severe competitive examination), and then spend two years in intensive work. Arthur A. Clapps is principal of the department of military band music, and ho holds classes every morning and soma afternoons at the school at Fort Jay. Parts of mornings and aftenuous are also taken up with technical work at the Institute of Musical Art under 'the teachot* of harmony, theory, history, • «ar training) vocal work, musical diftati//ii, eto. At this school arc 10 j students—five in the senior clstss and five in the junior. Five are graduated «ach year. There have been 2A graduates, -and all of I them have bee* appointed band leaders in the army. TJ-otb is also maintained here a recruit practice bawl of 35 wee, on whom the prospective band leaders practise. All in all, the work of the army bandsman is very interesting—almost fascinating-, one might say—and (though this is not generally known) the poorest of army bands is vastly superior in every wcy to the majority of the beefc bands in civil life. This is only natural, for it is an old axiom that " practice makes perfect," and if there is one thing that an army bandsman has to do it is to practise He flannct got *vay from ik Btrtrawaaft

c/rery day, and eection&l rehearsals when needed, work woud ere—which is the reason army bands ate able to provide musio of each surpassing excellence.