{"id":26,"date":"2015-05-01T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=26"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:22:55","slug":"richard-cogdal-describes-a-austin-harding-and-his-university-bands-experiences-between-1935-and-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2015\/05\/01\/richard-cogdal-describes-a-austin-harding-and-his-university-bands-experiences-between-1935-and-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Cogdal Describes A. Austin Harding and his University Band\u2019s Experiences between 1935 and 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/02\/Richard-Cogdal-Talks-About-Austin-Harding-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Cogdal visits the Sousa Archives to talk about his experiences playing under A. Austin Harding from 1935-1940.\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/02\/Richard-Cogdal-Talks-About-Austin-Harding-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/02\/Richard-Cogdal-Talks-About-Austin-Harding.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Cogdal visits the Sousa Archives to talk about his experiences playing under A. Austin Harding from 1935-1940.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The staff of the Sousa Archives had the honor of visiting with Richard Cogdal on Wednesday, April 29th. Dick shared stories about his time playing bass drum, cymbals, and timpani in the University of Illinois\u2019 Concert Band, under the leadership of A. Austin Harding between 1935 and 1940.\u00a0 Dick received a full band scholarship to attend the University as an accounting student, and he earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree in accountancy in 1939 and his Master\u2019s degree in accountancy the following year. Throughout his tenure as a student in Harding\u2019s Concert Band, he developed a lasting rapport with the University\u2019s first band director.\u00a0 In the following two short video clips Dick recounts his early rehearsal of Harding\u2019s transcription of Mussorgsky\u2019s <em>Pictures at an Exhibition<\/em> as a cymbal player and his experiences playing weekly live radio shows of the University Concert Band directly from the early band building.<\/p>\n<p>Richard talks about his rehearsal of Harding\u2019s arrangement of Mussorgsky\u2019s <em>Pictures at an Exhibition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JdBT74kZqMQ<\/p>\n<p>Richard talks about the Concert Band\u2019s weekly radio broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HU0ME1T1lA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staff of the Sousa Archives had the honor of visiting with Richard Cogdal on Wednesday, April 29th. Dick shared stories about his time playing bass drum, cymbals, and timpani in the University of Illinois\u2019 Concert Band, under the leadership of A. Austin Harding between 1935 and 1940.\u00a0 Dick received a full band scholarship to [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-sousa-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}