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- | The Marquette Band has been a part of this institution since the school opened in 1881. From its beginnings as a small pep unit that played primarily at convocations and football games, the Marquette University Band gradually evolved into a symphonic orchestra with several smaller ensembles. The band now performs three concerts yearly and provides music for basketball games. It does so without the benefit of a music college or an academic major from which to draw its members. Under the directorship of William Jaffe in 1924, the fifty-piece band in gray cadet uniforms made its first concert tour of Wisconsin. On November 8, 1924, the band was a guest of John Philip Sousa at his annual concert in Milwaukee. Sousa dedicated to the band his " | ||
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- | In 1930, the College of Music closed. The band was reorganized the following year and continued without benefit of affiliation with an academic program. It resumed touring, performing at University of Wisconsin-Madison football games and in the Great Hall of the Century of the World' | ||
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- | When it ceased to be a marching band, the band turned to more serious music by expanding its yearly program to include three major concerts, as well as playing at all home basketball games and other special functions. Band literature courses were introduced for Fine Arts credit in 1967, which helped to improve the musicianship of band members. | ||
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- | The band includes many smaller ensembles for members who enjoy other styles of music and wish to sharpen their skills, including the Marquette Jazz Ensemble, which began in the mid-1920s as the "Music Masters." | ||
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- | Otis French, 2006-ongoing | ||
- | Nicholas J. Contorno, 1983-2006 | ||
- | William J. Geisheker, 1942-1983 | ||
- | John Leicht, Jr., 1939-1942 | ||
- | Louis LeMieux, spring 1939 | ||
- | Russell Eddy, 1935-1939 | ||
- | Colonel Vesey Walker, 1933-1935 | ||
- | Herman Geske, 1932-1933 | ||
- | Harry D. O' | ||
- | Raymond Brown, 1929-1930 | ||
- | Herman Zeitz, 1925-1929 | ||
- | William Jaffe, 1924-1925 | ||
- | Henry Winsauer, 1916?-1924? | ||
- | Joseph Clauder, 1882? | ||
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