The nation’s oldest professional music organization welcomes back top brass to ring in its big birthday at Strathmore.
This is perhaps the natural outcome of being the oldest professional music organization in the country — the band so integral to the musical landscape of the country that we barely notice it’s there, with all the stature and stealth of a mountain range.
A suite of “American Songs” pays tribute to Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin. And lesser known craftsmen of American marches like Philip Phile and Francis Scala get an overdue salute. He went on to conduct his first concert as assistant director in 2001, and became music director in 2014. The mandate and mission of the United States Marine Band is “to perform for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.” This means you can find some form of the band at the White House every calendar day. This could be a chamber orchestra, a string quartet, a solo piano, a brass band. The President’s Own performs at state dinners, official ceremonies and full honors funerals — members appear at Arlington National Ceremony daily.
But from its first performance in the new capital in August of 1800 , the Marine Band has been a D.C. institution. Its inaugural inauguration was that of Thomas Jefferson in March of 1801. And it was Jefferson — a major music nerd himself — who suggested to then-Marine Corps Commandant Lt. Col. William Ward Burrows that a team be dispatched to Italy to recruit professional musicians.
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