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Frank R. Seltzer
Born(1863-12-21)December 21, 1863
Philadelphia
DiedJuly 25, 1924(1924-07-25) (aged 60)
Philadelphia
AvocationCornetist, composer, Bandmaster, Music educator
IdiomAmerican march music

Frank R. Seltzer (21 December 1863 Philadelphia – 25 July 1924 Philadelphia) was an influential late-19th-century-early-20th-century American virtuoso cornetist and internationally acclaimed composer of military marches scored for 20th-century wind ensembles. He integrated his music career vertically and horizontally across a spectrum of at least fourteen distinguishable vocations: (1) featured virtuoso cornetist, notably in Sousa's first touring band, (2) bandmaster, (3) composer, (4) early recording artist, (5) A&R director, (6) arranger, (8) fair labor advocate as a member of, and as a dispute-referee for musicians unions, (8) cornet designer and small independent manufacturing entrepreneur, (9) music educator, (10) music publisher, (11) celebrity brander for Frank Holton & Co., (12) author and publisher of music pedagogy for brass players, (13) music trade magazine columnist, and (14) inaugural dean in 1922, head instructor, and first conductor as substitute in performances of the then newly established Patrick Conway Military Band School at the Ithaca Conservatory of Music – the forerunner of today's Wind Ensemble of the Ithaca College School of Music.[1][2][3]

Childhood[edit]

Soldiers' Orphans School, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania

Seltzer's German-born father, who he never really knew, was killed during the American Civil War while serving in the Union Army with the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry. Growing up with his German-born mother Helena (1835–1891)[a] residing in Philadelphia from about 1871 to about 1978 at 7 Iron Place in the Fishtown neighborhood, close to the Delaware River, then, about a 1.8 mile walk north at 2233 Orianna Street in the Norris Square area of West Kensington, North Philadelphia

Helena worked as a tailor. Helena lived at 22 Miller Street when she died.

Frank's father's name was likely Ignatz, the German form of Ignatius. Or his name was George or John.

Frank Seltzer attended the Soldiers' Orphans School at Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, about 36 miles west of Philadelphia.[4][b] At the school, among other things, beginning at the age of 12, Seltzer began playing the tuba; and there, later, he learned to play the E♭ cornet, an instrument that, by the 1920s had become rare. Children at the school, when they turned sixteen, were referred to affectionately and officially by the school and community as "Sixteeners." Frank's older brothers, Charles Seltzer (1857–????)[5] and Joseph Harry Seltzer (1861–1923) were also a Sixteeners from the same school, classes of 1873 and 1877, respectively.[6]

At the age of 16 years, 5 months and 10 days, Seltzer graduated as a Sixteener, May 31, 1880.[4]

Early career in map publishing[edit]

  • He began learning the trade of (i) lithography (engraving), (i) cartography (map making), and (iii) map publishing, first with the firm of Griffith Morgan Hopkins,[7] a civil engineer, cartographer, and map publisher[8] whose firm was located at 320 Walnut Street.
  • After several years at this occupation (his salary had been raised to $3.00 per), the indoor work not agreeing with him he found employment at the E.H. Fitler & Company rope-making plant in Bridesburg (about 7 miles north of downtown Philadelphia) headed by Edwin Henry Fitler, then, the former mayor of Philadelphia. Seltzer worked there until the day he got injured by a whirling belt that "quickly whirled him into space." In this encounter our young cornetist came out second best, receiving injuries which kept him housed for more than three months. A broken lower limb, a few shattered ribs, the loss of several teeth and the roof of his mouth so badly splintered that at the time there was no further thought of cornet playing were the resultant features of his attempt at ropemaking.
  • His recovery from the little "goaround" with machinery found him cured of further inclinations to hard work and he once more turned his attention to the old trade of lithography, engraving, and map publishing, finding employment with August H. Mueller (1857–1926) at 530 Locust Street in Philadelphia, where he remained until he had fitted himself for entrance into the professional ranks of musicians. For this much credit is due to the generosity of Mr. Mueller, as he furthered Frank's advancement in the study of music through always permitting him to attend to whatever playing engagements presented themselves, thus being of great assistance to the young student.
  • In 1886 young Frank Seltzer turned his back upon the industrial and entered into the art of music as a means of livelihood, playing his first professional engagement with J. Fred Zimmerman at Cape May, New Jersey, for the summer season. During the spring and fall, Zimmerman was manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. The booking came late; every capable man had already been signed, hence Frank was only accorded a trial. From that trial up to the- present day the success of Mr. Seltzer has been truly phenomenal, for he has been idle scarcely a day in winter or summer during the past 84 years. Space forbids detailed enumeration of his various bookings, nor is it necessary as a matter of record in what is a brief life story and not a compendium of statistics. Nevertheless, the writer has learned through one of his sources of information that Friend Frank has an authentic record of every engagement played by him since the time of his first connection with amateur bands in 1882. This record embraces the date, day of the week, where and what the engagement was, with whom it was played and the remuneration received for each.[9]

Marriage[edit]

Seven years after graduation, Seltzer married a Sixteener classmate, Mary E. Monaghan (1862–1952) in Philadelphia.

  • After school, Seltzer began learning a business trade as a map engraver and simultaneously studied music.

Music career[edit]

1886

  • Seltzer became a professional musician in 1886 playing cornet with J.F. Zimmermann at Cape May.

1886, 1887

  • Seltzer was a member of the Germania Theatre Company Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sentz (1843–1929), which performed at the Belmont Mansion in Philadelphia during summer engagements. He also performed with the theater orchestras on Chestnut and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia.

1890

  • Seltzer performed as cornet soloist with the 1st Regiment Band of Philadelphia in concerts at Fairmount Park, and later, directed the band.

1892

  • During the Summer 1892, Seltzer performed with the Ellis L. Brooks' (1848–1920) Military Band at Nantasket Beach.
  • From the fall of 1892 through the fall of 1894, Seltzer played first trumpet with the John Philip Sousa band on its initial tour.
  • Seltzer then performed with the Herald Square Theater in New York when, in 1894, had accepted an appointment to served as Bandmaster of Pope's Band in Hartford, a position he held until 1897.[c]

1895

1897


Seltzer, in the 1880s, played trumpet with the Cape May and Atlantic City orchestras.

  • Paul Sentz (1843–1929) Band in Philadelphia
  • John Wanamaker Band of New York? or Philadelphia
Former directors"
* John Sabia
* Arthur A. Rosander
* Henri Elkan
* Charles Sanglear (nl) (1881–1915)


  • Mark Hassler (1834–1906) Band in Philadelphia
  • William D. Bastert (1866–1942) Band in Philadelphia
  • Frederick Neil Innes (1854–1926)[d]

Fourteen years while living in New York, as early as 1899 and as late as 1903

  • Thomas F. Shannon's (1862–1934) 23rd Regiment Band, New York National Guard, Manhattan.[e]
  • Charles John Crowley's (1848–1918) 8th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
  • Henry Richard Humphries' (1846–1925) 7th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
  • William Bayne's (1840–1922)[f] 69th Regiment Band, New York City
  • Luciano Conterno's (1839–1910) 14th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
  • For years, director of the East River Park Concerts in New York (in 1899 is soloed on cornet with John A. Boswald's Military Band in the East River Park
  • In 1899, while Seltzer was performing as cornetist with the 69th Regiment Band in New York City, Tom Clark (1854–1943) — a London-born cornetist and organizer-director of the first Columbia Phonograph Company Band[11][1] — engaged Seltzer for all the Columbia Phonograph recordings. Seltzer recorded nearly every day for Columbia, recording during the day and playing in orchestras in the evenings, until about 1903.


Other jobs

  • Seltzer, in 1908, took over as Bandmaster of the First Infantry Band National Guard of Delaware and held the position until about 1914. The band was founded in 1900 under the direction of Bandmaster Walter D. Walls (1869–1907), a Wilimgton-based cornetist who died in 1907 of tuberculosis.
August 1919

May, June, July 1922

  • Seltzer was solo cornetist for about 6 weeks, beginning May 19, 1922, with the 1st Infantry Band, in Wilmington, Delaware, directed by John Norris Robinson (1865–1960).[g]
  • Seltzer performed as cornetist with Patrick Conway's band 25 consecutive summers.
  • Director of Edison Phonograph Band Records for a number of years

He was an early recording musician: in New York played nearly every day for the Columbia Phonograph Company, recording during the day and playing in orchestras in the evenings 1899-1903. Then a similar function at the Edison Company from about 1903 to about 1907. Seltzer played trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1907 to 1912. He created a musical publishing business.

Seltzer belonged to the Ellis Brook's Band and the Sousa Band as a cornet player. For the Jacob's Band Monthly, he wrote articles from 1916 until his death, which included a monthly biographies, "Famous Bandmasters in Brief."

Short tenure at Ithaca College

September 15, 1922
  • Seltzer became assistant dean and Head Instructor of the The Patrick Conway Military Band School at Ithaca College. That same year, he moved his publishing company, Philo Music, to Ithaca, New York.[12][13][14] Because Conway had a prior engagement conducting the Syracuse Theater pit orchestra, Seltzer, for the first month or two, ran the band rehearsals and conducted its first two performances. Seltzer and the woodwinds instructor, Fred Livingston (né Frederick Harry Livingston; 1873–1945), resigned before the first school-year ended.[15][16]

Composing, publishing, and instrument manufacturing

Around 1917, Seltzer became general manager of the Philo Music Company in Philadelphia.

Commemorations to the Soldiers' Orphans School

In 1908, Seltzer composed a march, "Zim's Assembly March," to commemorate his classmate from Soldiers' Orphans School, George Zimmerman (1866–1941), originally from Allentown, and, after graduation, went on to become a public servant in Allentown.[17][9][15] In 1922, he composed "The Sixteeners," a march with words commemorating alumni of the Soldiers' Orphans School.

11 – Celebrity endorsements[edit]

  • Frank Holton & Co. cornets
  • Cornetist's Alphabet, by Antonio A. De La Mora (1984–1926),[h][18] De La Mora Publishing Company, Meridian, Mississippi (1918), Sherman Clay, agents; OCLC 12956929

Era[edit]

The military bands that Seltzer performed with – notably Sousa, Conway, and Pryor – were influential in organization of thousands of town, factory, department store, and even prison bands — throughout North America — that flourished in America beginning after the Civil War, particularly from the about the mid-1880s to just prior to World War I. Leon Mead (né William Leon Mead; 1861–1927), reported in Harper's Weekly Supplement in 1889 that there were over 10,000 military bands in the United States.[19] The popularity was also prominent in Great Britian and also throughout the rest of Europe. The era has been called the "Golden Age of Military Bands"[20] and is recognized as the forerunner to the rapid growth of the band movement throughout North America in scholastic and collegiate education that began after World War I.

Professional affiliations[edit]

Seltzer had been a member of Local No. 77, American Federation of Musicians, in Philadelphia.

Health[edit]

Beginning 1919, Seltzer suffered from diabetics, which developed into blood poisoning and gangrene. Seltzer's grand-nephew – by way of his brother, Joseph Harry Seltzer (1861–1923) – Holbrooke Stroud Seltzer, MD (1917–1997), later became a notable researcher toward the goal of finding a cure for diabetes.

Selected compositions[edit]

As a composer, he wrote works for wind orchestras. Compositions Working for concert band

Before 1895

  • "Assembly March"
  • "Snow Queen" ("La Reina De Las Nieves"), novelette, arranged by James M. Fulton (1909)
  • "Brandywine Springs" (1908)
  • "Star March" (circa 1895), dedicated to the Star Lacrosse Club of Ottawa, Canada

J.R. Lafleur & Son, Ltd.: Fife & Drum Journal

  • "Honour Bright," quick march (1898)

J.F. Bellois, Jr., Philadelphia[i]

  • "Vindicator March, The" (1896)
  • "Proposal March, The" (1896)
  • "Chinese Triumphal March" (1896)
  • "Wake Up Coons," negro characteristic, for band (1900)[j]

Choudens (M.), Paris

  • "My Little Sweetheart," song and dance schottische (1905)

Carl Fischer

  • "American Standard Polka," cornet solo (1903)
  • "Clash of Arms," march (1905)
  • "Adulation" (19??)
  • "Bold Front," march (1905)
  • "Sleepy Sam," in E♭ (1906)

Harry Coleman, Philadelphia

  • "Sweet Little Daisies," schottische (1895)
  • "Old Homestead," march (1895)
  • "Hartford Post March, The" (1895)[k]
  • "The New Columbia March" (1895), dedicated to Colonel Albert A. Pope, manufacturer of the New Columbia bicycle
  • "Twin Brothers Schottische" (1895)
  • "Pope's Band March" (1896)
  • "Rosedale March" (1896)
  • "Algonquin March" (1905)
  • "Royal Trumpeters March, The" (1905)
  • "National March and Two-step, The" (1905)
  • "Seltzer's Snappy Siftings," lanciers (1906)

Coeuille-Seltzer, Philadelphia

  • "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan," song and dance (1907)
  • "The Telescope," march (1907), named for the Telescope trumpet that he, in partnership with Ferdinand Coeuillewith, manufactured[l]
  • "Zim's Assembly March," for band (1908)

C.A. Blodgett, Springfield, Massachusetts[m]

  • "Plaza March" (1915)

Sam Philo Music Co., 6 South 55th Street, Philadelphia

  • "Call to Arms, The," march and one-step (1916)
  • "The Chimes of Peace," march (1919)
  • "Cutie Cute," fox-trot (1919)
  • "Heads Up," (1919)
  • "Peace Chimes," march (1919)
  • "Auto Riders Frolic," march (1920)
  • "June 14th March" (dedicated to Flag Day) (1920)
  • "F. B. S." ("For Better Service"), march (1921)
  • "Do-Re," waltz for orchestra and piano (1921)
  • "Trombone Solidity;" march for band (1922)
  • "Sixteeners, The," march, words, and music (1922)

General references[edit]

  • "The Patrick Conway Military Band School, 1922–1929," by Mark Fonder, Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 62-79
  • "Two Examples of Czech-Americans' Influence in American Popular Musical Culture in the Early Twentieth-Century: Bohumir Kryl and J.S. Zamecnik," by Michael Cwach, see: [1]
  • "Alton Augustus Adams: The First Black Bandmaster in the US Navy," by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 173-187 (accessible via JSTOR)

Seltzer's publishing companies[edit]

  • 1908: Coenille-Seltzer, Philadelphia[l]

Selected discography[edit]

As performer[edit]

  • "The Two Comrades Polka," cornet duet[21]
Accompanied by the Edison Military Band
John Summers Cox (1834–1902), composer
John Hazel (1865–1948) & Frank Seltzer, cornets
Edison Gold Moulded Records ‎8569
Format: cylinder, 2 minutes
Released: December 1903
OCLC 41374378
  • "Two of Us," cornet duet[21]
Accompanied by the Edison Military Band
Charles H. Cramer, composer
John Hazel (1865–1948) & Frank Seltzer, cornets
Edison Gold Moulded Records ‎8598
Format: cylinder, 2 minutes
Released: December 1904
Music published in 1903 by:
McKinley Music Company, Chicago
(William McKinley; 1858–1934)
(audio on YouTube)
OCLC 41375733

As composer[edit]

  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
Listed December 1921
Wurlitzer Roll No. 3070
Wurlitzer Roll No. 3143 ("Standard March Roll")
  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded May 24, 1906, Philadelphia (unconfirmed)
Matrix: E-3405/1
Victor 4841
Library of Congress ID 1061
  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
Victor Military Band
Recorded September 27, 1911, Camden, New Jersey
Matrix: C-11017=1
Victor 35204-B
Library of Congress ID 2395
  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded July 13, 1922, New York, New York
Matrix: B-3405=9
Victor 16273-A
Instrumentation: Oboe, bassoon, piccolo, 6 clarinets, 3 horns, 3 cornets, 3 trombones, baritone horn, and 2 tubas (takes 9-11)
Library of Congress ID 1060
  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
U.S. Naval Academy Band
Recorded June 9, 1920
Columbia 79231
  • "Telescope March"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded April 19, 1907
Matrix: B-4417
Victor 5217
  • "La Reina De Las Nieves"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded September 20, 1909
Victor B-8238
  • "Snow Queen"
Arranged by James M. Fulton
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recoreded September 24, 1909
Victor 16427
Matrix: B-8238=4
  • "Assembly March"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded September 24, 1909
Matrix: B-8254=2
Victor 16425A
  • "Assembly March"
Hager's Band (Frederick Wallace Hager; 1874–1958)[22]
Rex & Imperial (1917–1918) 5208
Take 487
  • "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan"
Edison Military Band
1907
National Phonograph Company
  • "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded April 12, 1910
Matrix: B-8834=2
Victor 16729
  • "Bold Front"
Victor Dance Orchestra
Recorded November 10, 1911
Victor C-10876
Orchestra, with extra violin and cornet
  • "Algonquin March"
Arthur Pryor's Band
Recorded November 16, 1911
Matrix: B-11261
Victor 17040
  • "Algonquin March"[21]
Edison Military Band
Edison 8774
  • "American Standard March"
Edison Military Band
Edison 8500
  • "Bold Front March"
Edison Military Band
Edison 9129
  • "My Little Sweetheart Schottische-Gavotte"
Edison Military Band
Edison 8900
  • "National Two-Step"
Edison Military Band
Edison 8893
  • "Rosedale March"
Edison Military Band
Edison 8657
  • "Royal Trumpeters March"
Edison Military Band
Edison 8865
  • "Telescope March, The"
Edison Military Band
Edison 9561
Released June 1907
  • "Sweet Little Daisies"
Bells by Albert Benzler (1867–1934)
Edison 9141


  • "The Call to Arms"
Conway's Band
Recorded July 10, 1916
Victor B-18085
Band, with xylophone
  • "March, The Chimes of Peace"
Conway's Band
Recorded July 13, 1917
Victor Victor B-20390
  • "Heads Up"
Conway's Band
Recorded ca. January 1920
OKeh S-7183
  • "Auto Riders Frolic"
Conway's Band
Recorded March 1920
OKeh S-7329
  • New York Military Band
Conway's Band
Recorded 1920
Side A: "Biddy"
Side B: "June 14th March"
Edison
OCLC 903982162
U.S. Naval Academy Band
Allen Earl Beck (1937–2016), conductor
Poughkeepsie
Vol. 42 – The Music of Boyer and Seltzer
Recorded around 1979
  1. "Zim's Assembly"
  2. "Pope's Band"
  3. "Star March"
  4. "The Hartford Post"
  5. "Clash of the Arms"
    (audio on YouTube)
  6. "National March and Two Step"
  7. "Algonquin"
  8. "Adulation"
  9. "Zim's Assembly"
  10. "Twisted"
Originally distributed by
Robert Hoe, Jr.,[23] Poughkeepsie, New York (1979)
(embossed in record) ALT 8-28-79
Re-issued by Naxos (2011)
OCLC 63914507
  • Southwestern Oklahoma State University Wind Symphony
James William Jurrens (1926–2005), conductor
Heritage of the March, Vol GGG
  1. "Bold Front"
  2. "Heads Up"
  3. "The Telescope"
  4. "Trombone Solidity"
  5. "F.B.S."
  6. "The Royal Trumpeters"
  7. "Auto Riders Frolic"
OCLC 16969806

Selected publications by Seltzer[edit]

Music journalism[edit]

Seltzer's Pocket Manuel

FRANK R. SELTZER, formerly with Sousa, Conway, Pryor, Innes, and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, tells

What to avoid, and how to improve
________________________________________


on the Cornet, Trumpet, French Horn, Alto, Baritone, Trombone, or Tuba. Twenty-five Years' Personal Observation is imparted to you in this wonderful POCKET MANUAL, which is filled with hundreds of valuable pointers for both Professional and Amateur. Endorsed by leading Bandmasters and Soloists. Great help to Teachers.
FIFTY CENTS will secure this Manual, which is WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.

____________________
(advertisement, The Musical Messenger, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 1917)

Jacobs Band Monthly[edit]

"The Cornetist" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer[edit]
  1. "A Correspondence Course in Music," Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1922, pps. 5, 8, 10
"Famous Bandmasters in Brief" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer[edit]

1918, Volume 3

  2. "Conway's Band" (wikipedia), Vol. 3, No. 8, August 1918
  3. "Ellis Brooks", Vol. 3, No. 9, September 1918, pps. 22–23
    Note: This article was published in the Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 9, September 1918, pps. 22-23

1919, Volume 4

  2. "T. Fred Henry," "Vol, 4, No. 1, January 1919, p. 18
  3. William Henry Santelmann," (wikipedia), Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1919, pps. 16, 18, 61
  4. "John C. Weber" & "Herman Bellstedt," Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1919, pps. 10, 14, 16, 18
  5. "Herbert L. Clarke" (wikipedia), Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1919, pps. 10, 12
  6. "Samuel H. Kindle," "Vol, 4, No. 5, May 1919, pps. 10 & 12
  7. "Lieut. W.S. Mygrant" (né William Seneca Mygrant; 1862–1937), Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1919, p. 10
  8. "Capt. Arthur A. Clappe" (né Arthur Albert Clappe; 1850–1920), Vol. 4, No. 7, July 1919, p. 10
  9. "Thomas V. Short" (wikipedia, in Dutch), Vol. 4, No. 8, August 1919, p. 10
  10. "Albert Winkler of Trenton, New Jersey" (1851–1922), Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1919, pps. 18, 20
  11. "Lieutenant John Slatter of Canada" (né John Daniel Slatter; 1864–1954), Vol. 4, No. 10, October 1919, pps. 18, 20
  12. "Frederick Neil Innes" (1854–1926), Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1919, pps. 18, 20
  13. "Silas Earl Hummel," Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1919, p. 18

1920, Volume 5

  1. "Edwin Franko Goldman" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  2. "Fred W. Hager" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
    Note: This article was also published in the Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, September 1918, pps. 22-23
  3. "Frank A. Panella" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1920, pps. 18, 20, 22 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  4. "William M. Redfield" (né William Moore Redfield; 1867–1938) (grandson, William Redfield, was an actor), Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  5. "Martin Klinger" (1858–1933), Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1920, pps. 18, 20, 22 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  6. "Dr. Ed. M. Hiner" (né Edwin Morrison Hiner; 1871–1948), Vol. 5, No. 6, June 1920, pps. 18–21 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  7. "Alton A. Adams" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1920, pps. 18, 20–22 (accessible via HathiTrust)
    On the appointment of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., the first black bandmaster in the U.S. Navy, Seltzer – an early admirer – wrote:[24]
    The Government afterwards detailed Mr. Adams to organize two more such bands in the neighboring islands, a task which was brought to a successful issue within six months. He is now bandmaster-in-charge of these three bands, and all musicians who have been fortunate enough to see and hear the work of these organizations concede that their ensemble efforts cannot be surpassed. Rear Admiral J.W. Oliver, who at the time was Governor of the islands, stated that he did not miss the Marine Band of Washington, D.C., and believed that the material contained in the separate organization could be moulded into what might safely be called "the best band in the world."
  8. "George Otto Frey" (1881–1952), Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  9. "Lieut. Lambert L. Eben" (né Lambert Lincoln Eben; 1879–1960), Vol. 5, No. 9, September 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  10. "Adolphus Klein" (1869–1943), Vol. 5, No. 10, October 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  11. "Ed Chenette" (né Stephen Edward Chenette; 1885–1963), Vol. 5, No. 11, November 1920, pps. 18, 22, 24 (accessible via HathiTrust)
  12. "Francis Dupree Morse" (aka Frank D. Morse; 1881–1953), Vol. 5, No. 12, December 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)

1921, Volume 6

  1. "Frank R. Seltzer of Philadelphia," by the editor (Walter Jacobs), Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1921, pps. 25-27
  2. "Lieut. Wm. C. White" (né William Carter White; 1882–1964), Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1921, pps. 18, 20
  3. "Richard Schmidt" (1865–1931), Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1921, pps. 18, 20
  4. "Mace Gay" (né Mace Gay, Jr.; 1855–1935), Vol. 6, No. 4, April 1921, pps. 18, 20, 21, 22
  5. "Charles M. Fry" (né Charles Meade Fry; 1882–1938), Vol. 6, No. 5, May 1921, pps. 18, 20
  6. "Lieut. Francis W. Sutherland" (né Francis William Sutherland; 1877–1959), Vol. 6, No. 6, June 1921, pps. 18, 19
  7. "Karl L. King" (né Karl Lawrence King; 1891–1971) (wikipedia), Vol. 6, No. 7, July 1921, pps. 18, 19
  8. "Major George W. Landers" (né George Washington Landers; 1860–1955), Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1921, pps. 18, 19
  9. "Ernest F. Pechin" (né Ernest Frank Pechin; 1891–1946), Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1921, pps. 18, 19
  10. "Dr. A. Howard Thomas" (né Addison Howard Thomas; 1860–1933), Vol. 6, No. 10, October 1921, pps. 18, 20
  11. "B. Frank Maurer" (né Benjamin Frank Maurer; 1870–1945), Vol. 6, No. 11, November 1921, pps. 18, 20
  12. "Horace R. Anders" (1860–1923), Vol. 6, No. 12, December 1921, pps. 18, 20

1922, Volume 7

  1. "Lt. John Norris Robinson" (1865–1960), Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1922, pps. 18, 20
  2. "C. Stanley Mackey" (1877–1915), Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1922, pps. 18, 20
  3. "Walter F. Smith" (1859–1937), Vol. 7, No. 3, March 1922, pps. 18, 20, 21
  4. "H.J. Charlton" (né Harry James Charlton; 1877–19??), Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1922, pps. 18, 20, 21
  5. "M.S.Rocereto" (né Mario Salvatore Rocereto; 1865–1956), Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1922, pps. 18-19
  6. "Highter Education," Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1922, pps. 12, 14
  7. "Arthur Amsden" (né Arthur Duffield Amsden; 1865–1926), Vol. 7, No. 12, December 1922, pps. 17-18

1923, Volume 8

  1. "Ernest S. Williams" (wikipedia), Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1923
"Noted Orchestral Conductors" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer (in Jacobs' Band Monthly)[edit]

1922, Volume 7

  1. "Henry K. Hadley", (né Henry Kimball Hadley; 1871–1937), Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1922, pps. 18, 19


Other articles[edit]

Instructional publications[edit]

  1. Pocket Manuel for Brass Instrument Performers, by Frank R. Seltzer, Philo Music Company (1911)

Gallery[edit]


References[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Helena Seltzer (1835–1891) was buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in the Knights of Pythias section.
  2. ^ The Soldiers' Orphans School at Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, endured from 1869 to 1912. It was located in was once Yellow Springs.
  3. ^ Weed's Band, founded March 15, 1869, mostly by men employed at the Hartford factory of the Weed Sewing Machine Company, changed its name in 1891 to Pope's Band, when the Pope Manufacturing Company – headed by its founder, Colonel Albert Augustus Pope – contracted to use the plant to manufacture bicycles.
  4. ^ Frederick Neil Innes (1854–1926) was a London-born-turned-American trombonist and subsequent bandmaster. He was discovered by Patrick Gilmore. ("Jack's Musings: Frederick Neil Innes," by Jack Kopstein, born 1934, Altissimo! Recordings, blog of Naxos of America, Inc., March 24 2010; retrieved July 18, 2018)
  5. ^ Thomas Francis Shannon (1862–1934) was bandmaster of the 23rd Regiment, New York National Guard, in Manhattan.
  6. ^ William Bayne (1840–1922), September 8, 1871, served some fifty years in the 69th Regiment Band, New York City, and from September 1883 to 1917, was bandmaster. Before that, he served from September 8, 1865, to September 8, 1871, as a musician in the 1st Infantry Regiment Band. He immigrated to the United States when he was about 22 and became a naturalized citizen in 1872.
  7. ^ The Delaware National Guard 1st Infantry Band, as it was known from 1903 to 1917, was also known, beginning 1917, as the 59th Pioneer Band, and from 1923 to 1924 as The Municipal Band (of Wilmington); beginning 1928, the 198th Coast Artillery Band, and in later years, the Delaware State Guard Band. ("Philharmonic Band to Play at Pushmobile Derby Rally," Wilmington Morning News, July 8, 1950, p. 20, accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/160668634)
  8. ^ Antonio A. De La Mora (1884–1926) was a Texas-born musician of Mexican heritage who, in 1910, served as head musician in the 21st U.S. Infantry in the Philippines, on the island of Mindanáo at Ludlow Barracks. He was a composer, music teacher, and publisher. In 1916, De La Mora was a Bandmaster in the 212th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
  9. ^ John Frederick Bellois, Jr. (1959–1947), had been a violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra and was also a Philadelphia theater musician in the 1910s and 1920s, and part-time band music publisher. He studied with his violinist father Johann Friedrich Bellois, Sr. (1844–1912) who had been a first violin in the Theodore Thomas touring orchestra based in New York City. Bellois, Jr., had been a drummer. He played with Sousa, Pryor, and Leps. ("The Final Curtain – Bellois, J. Frederick," obituary, Billboard, November 15, 1947, p. 46)
  10. ^ The term "coon," is (and always has been) an ethnic slur, but, with American songwriters, not necessarily pejorative. Historically, in the early 19th-century, the content of many coon songs were criticized for having racial lyrics. The lyrics to Seltzer's composition, when this article was initially posted (July 2018), were not known. It's worth noting that Seltzer had exhibited great admiration one particular African-American musician, Bandmaster Alton Augustus Adams, about whom he published, July 1920, a laudatory biography in his monthly column, "Great Bandmasters in Brief" of Jacobs' Band Monthly.
  11. ^ The Hartford Post was a Hartford, Connecticut, newspaper that ran from 1890 to 1904. (read this)
  12. ^ a b Ferdinand ("Frederick") Coeuille (1850–1916) was a band instrument maker, notably, maker of the Coeuille B♭ Telescope Cornet. In about 1907, Coeuille formed a partnership with Seltzer, Coeuille-Seltzer, to make band instruments and publish music. The company lasted about four years before Coeuille's bad health and financial struggles ended it. ("Brass Restorations – Ferdinand Coeuille B♭ Cornet," The Adirondack Branch of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, online blog of Jon R. Patton, Wurtsboro, New York; retrieved July 16, 2018)
  13. ^ Charles Albert Blodgett (1867–1953) founded a sheet music store bearing his name in 1898 in Springfield, Massachusetts, that endured for one hundred and nine years. Blodgett sold it August 15, 1946, to William Alfred Lipp (1893–1960) and wife, Dorothy Lipp (née Dorothy Lucille Griffey; 1900–1997), who, after running it for twelve years, sold it on August 15, 1958, to Paul G. Bernstein (1914–1982) and wife, Henrietta "Teddy" Bernstein (née Kritz; 1918–2017). Store locations, chronologically, were at 275 Main Street (1898–1908), 27 Harrison Avenue (1908–1949), 169 State Street (1949–1961), 220 Worthington Street (1961–1968), 203 Worthington Street (1968–1977), and 111 Chestnut Street (1980–2009). The store permanently closed October 30, 2009.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Composers and their music (2 Vols.), by William H. Rehrig, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press (1991) Cite error: The named reference "HeriEBM 1991" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ The March in American Society (PhD dissertation), by Leon Joseph Bly, University of Miami (1978); 13568752
  3. ^ Bio-Bibliographical Index of Musicians in the United States of America Since Colonial Times, prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works Project Administration, Washington, D.C. (1941; 1972 2nd ed.); OCLC 1006485625
  4. ^ a b Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans for Pennsylvania for the Year 1880, Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart (state printer and binder) (1880) p. 49; OCLC 31370538
  5. ^ "Charles Seltzer" (p. 11, line 25), 1870 U.S Census, West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Roll M593_1325, p 270A); Family History Library GS Film No. 552824, Digital Folder No. 4278545 (accessible via FamilySearch, registration required, but free)
  6. ^ Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans for Pennsylvania for the Year 1877, Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart (state printer and binder) (1877) p. 49; OCLC 31370538
  7. ^ Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey: a Book of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation (Vol. 3 of 4), Francis Bazley Lee (1869–1914) (ed.), New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), p. 1110; re-printed by London: Forgotton Books (2015), p. 1110; OCLC 838459000
  8. ^ "The G.M. Hopkins Company," by Jefferson M. Moak (born 1952), Mapline, quarterly newsletter of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, No. 10, June 10, 1978
  9. ^ a b "Famous Bandmasters in Brief – Frank R. Seltzer of Philadelphia," by Walter Jacobs, Jacobs Band Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1921, pps. 25-27
  10. ^ "Frank R. Seltzer Engaged To Lead the 2d Regiment Band. A Well-Known Player and Composer, Springfield Republican, June 12, 1895, p. 4
  11. ^ "A Directory to Columbia Recording Artists of the 1890s," by Tim Brooks, ARSC Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2–3 (1979), p. 108
  12. ^ "Across the Country – Ithaca, N.Y.," Musical Courier, Vol. 83, No. 24 (Whole No. 2176), December 22, 1921, p. 33
  13. ^ "Patrick Conway, The Noted Bandmaster, Appointed as Directing Head of Ithaca School of Band Instruments as Affiliated With the Ithaca Conservatory of Music," The Musical Observer Vol. 21, No. 3, , March 1922, p. 13
  14. ^ "Contemplation Now Culmination" (announcement of Seltzer's move to Ithaca, New York), Jacobs' Band Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1922, p. 12
  15. ^ a b "The Patrick Conway Military Band School, 1922–1929," by Mark Fonder, Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 62–79 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/3345775)
  16. ^ "Notes From the Conway Band School," The Keynote, Vol. 21, No. 1, November 1922, p. 7
    "Recital Program," November 14, 1922
  17. ^ "Famous Composer Honors School Mate," The Allentown Leader (Allentown, Pennsylvania), July 29, 1908, p. 6, col. 5 (top) (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/68318859/)
  18. ^ "21st Infantry—Col. C.A. Williams," Army and Navy Register, Vol. 49, No. 1625, February 11, 1911, p. 21
  19. ^ "The Military Bands of the United States," by Leon Mead (né William Leon Mead; 1861–1927), Harper's Weekly (Supplement), Vol. 33, September 28, 1889, pps. 785–788
  20. ^ "Bands, Early and Golden Age," entry by Sandy R. Mazzola, Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago Historical Society, Newberry Library), (2004); OCLC 60342627; Mazzola's bibliograhy:
    1. The Music Men: An Illustrated History of Brass Bands in America, 1800–1920, by Margaret H. Hazen (née Margaret Joan Hindle; born 1948) & Robert Miller Hazen (born 1948), Smithsonian Institution Press (1987); OCLC 14098653
    2. "Bands and Orchestras at the World's Columbian Exposition," by Sandy R. Mazzola, American Music, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 1986, pps. 407–424; ISSN 0734-4392; OCLC 6733284331 (digital access via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/3052228, subscription or participating library required)
    3. "Chicago Concert-Bands at the Turn-of-the-Century," by Sandy R. Mazzola, Journal of Band Research (American Bandmasters Association), Vol. 29, No. 1, Fall 1993, pps. 1–13 ISSN 0021-9207
    (retrieved August 13, 2018)
  21. ^ a b c Genuine Edison Gold Moulded Records – British and American List (catalog), July 1907
  22. ^ Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895–1925, by Tim Gracyk, et al., Routledge (2008), p. 150; OCLC 827772175
  23. ^ "The Legacy of Robert Hoe, Jr.," Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music (online at www.hebm.info) (retrieved July 17, 2018)
  24. ^ "Alton Augustus Adams: The First Black Bandmaster in the U.S. Navy," by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., The Black Perspective in Music, Professor J. Southern (managing editor-publisher), Vol. 5, No. 2, Autumn, 1977, pp. 173-187 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/1214078)
    Note: Eileen Jackson Southern, PhD (né Eileen Stanza Jackson; 1920–2002), a American musicologist, researcher, author and teacher, was the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University. In 1973, she and her husband, Professor Joseph Southern (born 1919), founded The Black Perspective in Music, the first musicological journal on the study of black music. The publication ceased in 1990. (Southern, Eileen Jackson (1920-2002); "Eileen Southern dies at 82", by Ken Gewertz, Harvard Gazette, October 17, 2002)
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