{"id":3036,"date":"2022-03-13T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:32:35","slug":"new-aba-exhibit-opens-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2022\/03\/13\/new-aba-exhibit-opens-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"New American Bandmasters Association Exhibit Opens Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Center’s new exhibit, “American Bandmasters Association\u2019s Little Light \u2014 Austin Harding\u2019s Legacy during the Great Depression,” highlights the early years of the ABA and John Philip Sousa\u2019s influence on its early leadership and the organization’s effort to modernize wind ensemble performance in America.\u00a0 On July 5, 1929, the American Bandmasters Association held its auspicious inaugural meeting at New York City\u2019s Pennsylvania Hotel. The purpose of their first meeting was to establish a code of international instrumentation for all wind bands across the world.<\/p>\n

About this same time, America\u2019s spiral into the Great Depression began, and its roaring economy transitioned into recession in August 1929.\u00a0 On October 24 and 29, the country\u2019s investors began selling their overpriced shares en masse,<\/em> which led to the crash of America\u2019s Stock Market.\u00a0 Consumer confidence quickly vanished, and panicked bank withdrawals began a crisis for America\u2019s banks that lasted until the start of WWII.<\/p>\n

The closure of the Champaign First National Bank on January 19, 1932 where the ABA\u2019s bank accounts were held, created many unexpected challenges for the organization. Harding, who was the University\u2019s first band director and ABA\u2019s first treasurer, managed all of the organization\u2019s financial assets.<\/p>\n

For the next two years, Harding and Edwin Franko Goldman, as its president, worked tirelessly to enable the ABA to continue operating through the Great Depression. This exhibit of personal correspondence, photographs, financial reports, newspaper clippings and historical music instruments document the early years of the ABA and Austin Harding\u2019s steadfast guidance to Goldman and the other founding members of the American Bandmasters Association. For a more detailed explanation of the exhibit please visit this presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is open Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday between 9 and 5, and Wed between 9 and 12.\u00a0 Weekend tours of this and the Center’s other exhibits can be arranged by either calling 217-333-4577 or emailing schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center’s new exhibit, “American Bandmasters Association\u2019s Little Light \u2014 Austin Harding\u2019s Legacy during the Great Depression,” highlights the early years of the ABA and John Philip Sousa\u2019s influence on its early leadership and the organization’s effort to modernize wind ensemble performance in America.\u00a0 On July 5, 1929, the American Bandmasters Association held its auspicious […]<\/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-3036","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\/3036","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=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}