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Park at 7 30 p.m. in TerraceThe Richardson Community Concert Band will revive an all but forgotten piece of Ameri-Park at 300 Dorothy Street.It will not be the first time Richardson has resounded to the golden crash of cymbals.the brazen blare of trumpetsand the singing trill of clarinets but it will be the first in avery long time.It will be the first time sincethe music of concert bands vanished along with the bandstand that was once stationed on McKinney Street just a block off Main.The Community Concert Band is a new band made up of volunteer musicians who havepooled talent, time and resources to develop the band asan outlet for their own musical skills and as a source of entertainment and recreation for the entire community.The Wednesday night concert is the first in a series of free concerts planned by the band for presentation to the residents of Richardson and neighboring communities.In their volunteer status, the band is not unlike the original Richardson Concert Band that first tuned their instruments in the now non-existant bandstand in 1915.In an old print, the 26-man band with their militant brass-buttoned uniforms looks as though the director, W. T. Cox, is just about to put themthrough a close-order drill. A close order-drill, perhaps, would have been in order. Two years after its birth, the concert band dissolved as too many of its members marched off to the trenches of WorldWar I.Most of the musical selection, too. will be drawn from the same traditional sources and played in the traditional con-cana tomorrow night with an old fashioned Concert In TheIV.VRICHARDSON COMMUNITY CONCIRT ^RJCTORJOli ”'5- dir«' n*w c°n-cert Band tomorrow night at Terrace Park.be revived Wednesdaycert band style as the Community Concert Band invites its audience to hear once more the “blood-stirring beat of John Sousa, the heart moving melodies of Richard Rodgers and the stately measures of Franz Shubert.The younger generation may think that they are seeing an establishment copy of the im-provisions of the Woodstock Rock Festival, but to many Richardsonites the tunes will bring back older memories.Jess Harbin, who did not play in the first Richardson ConcertBand but was one of those wholistened, remembers that everyone in town turned out whenthe concert band filled the McKinney Street bandstand. They came, he said, in buggys with picnic lunches and pallets to spread out on the ground.Clifford Huffines. another one who listened, agrees that it was “a very big thing.W. C. Wallis, who played coronet with the band in 1915 and when it revived for a period after the war. remembered the early musicians as a highly unprofessional lot. But we knew how to make a lot of noise,” he said.The biggest gap between the concert band of today and themusicians of 1915 is. perhaps, not in time but in talent. Harbin remembers an old time conductor asking the band members if “you want to learnabout music or how’ to play I don t know a darn thing about music. the band leader admit ted. but I can teach you how to play.Today's concert band director, Joe Frank, is the Symphonic Band Director and Supervisor of Instrumental In struction at Southern Method ist University and a former 10 year music veteran of the Richardson IndependentSchool District.The Richardson Community Concert Band is made up of highly talented members from rich musical backgrounds thatrange from high school band directors to former membersof collegiate and high school concert and marching bands. The 60-member band includes people like Collins Radio Engineer Dave Kosanda who played with a high school marching band in Minnesota. Jerrie Crocket who has a music degree from Oklahoma State University, Louise Swee-den who perform with a collegiate stage band. Max Peterson who played his way through the Navy. Richardson Junior High School Band Director Bob Wren, claranetist Wanda Dawson who learned her music at Canton High School and Father Blanchard Boyer of St Margarets' Episcopal Church, who plays the tympani.They represent not onlv across-section of Richardson but Schubert; Overture to Anof the country and they have been rehearsing since November to make outdoor concerts a ' big thing in Richardson once again.It is a band definitely willing to reach for the high notes and already the Parks and Recrea tion Committee is investigating the possibilities of constructing a band shell to provide the band with a fit setting.Wednesday night's program will include a variety of favor ite selections including Marche Militaire by FranzItalian In Algiers by Rossini. Sea Songs bv Ralph Yaugh Williams and medleys of Rich ard Rodgers and Jerome Kernalong with familiar marches by Sousa. Bagley and other popular composers Concert admission is free with no obligations or dona tions. Only attention and ap plause will be required. All cit izens of Richardson are invited to bring a picnic dinner, folding chairs or a blanket to help make the city )ust a little bit more unique.Irish feud fatal to I fBELFAST, Northern Ireland (L7PI)—British troops battled snipers in the barricaded streets of Roman Catholic sections of Belfast today against a background of burning buildings and gutted homes. Security forces listed at least14 persons killed in violence which broke out Mondayfollowing Premier Brian Faulkner’s restoration of internment without trial for the first time in 10 years. \Security forces said the latest confirmed fatality was a 17-year-old youth found shot dead in Canmore Street near the Roman Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast The dead included two women, a Roman Catholicpriest, a British soldier and a trooper of the part-time U Ister Defense Regiment. Scores were injured but an army spokesman said there was no official total.Witnesses said the Rev. Hugh McMullen. 37, was shot Monday night while returning from giving the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church to a victim of a gunbattle between troops at Henry Taggert Army Post and gunmen in the Catholic Ballymurphy Housing Project.There was a shot and hefell.” said the Rev. PatrickEgan. He lay there for sometime because no one could goto his assistance because of thegunfire ••
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