{"id":1617,"date":"2016-10-27T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:58:03","slug":"american-music-month-2016-kicks-off-on-november-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2016\/10\/27\/american-music-month-2016-kicks-off-on-november-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"American Music Month 2016 Kicks Off on November 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Fillmore-1-776x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4329\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Fillmore-1-776x1024-1-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Fillmore-1-776x1024-1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Fillmore-1-776x1024-1-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Fillmore-1-776x1024-1.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>This November\u2019s American Music Month celebration, <em>Klaxons, Screamers, and Rolling Thunder: The Unconventional Henry Fillmore<\/em> focuses on Henry Fillmore\u2019s life and his contributions to America\u2019s band movement and trombone repertoire.\u00a0 Fillmore was a uniquely unconventional trombonist, composer, and bandmaster who loved circus music, American football, and his music-loving dog. \u00a0To recognize his contributions to America\u2019s band movement and trombone repertoire this year&#8217;s programming kicks off on November 4th with a special performance demonstration and lecture on early trombone and low brass instrument designs and a trombone masterclass that will given by retired Boston Symphony Orchestra bass trombonist, Doug Yeo.\u00a0 The following day at the football bame, a special half-time show will feature the Marching Illini\u2019s trombone section performing Meredith Willson&#8217;s &#8220;Seventy-six Trombones&#8221; and Henry Fillmore&#8217;s &#8220;Lassus Trombone&#8221; with Doug Yeo and as many trombone students as possible from Illinois school band programs statewide on the 50 yard line.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition the Sousa Archives has three new exhibits for people to visit:\u00a0 <i>Stage Center Slides! Stories of Sousa\u2019s Spectacular Trombonists<\/i>;\u00a0<i>From Nickeline to Electric Oil: Early Marketing and Design Revelations for America\u2019s Trombone<\/i>; and\u00a0<i>Fillmore the Man Behind the Name.\u00a0 <\/i>For more information on these programs and exhibits, and the rest of this November&#8217;s programming please visit <a title=\"archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\" href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\">archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa<\/a> or call the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at 217-333-4577.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November\u2019s American Music Month celebration, Klaxons, Screamers, and Rolling Thunder: The Unconventional Henry Fillmore focuses on Henry Fillmore\u2019s life and his contributions to America\u2019s band movement and trombone repertoire.\u00a0 Fillmore was a uniquely unconventional trombonist, composer, and bandmaster who loved circus music, American football, and his music-loving dog. \u00a0To recognize his contributions to America\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}