The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-07-20
CONCERT BY THE SCHOOL BAND

| The Ocala school band which was
.organized two months before the close
of school and made its initial appear
ance with such success during com
| mencement week, will give short
concert on the square Monday night,
July oath, at eight o'clock, the weather
permitting.
The object of the concert is two
fold: to show to the townspeople what
has been accomplished in so short a
time, and to raise funds for the pur-
chase of bass horn which will be-
come the property of the school.
Until a bass horn is possessed the
organization is not properly band,
| for piano must be included in the
Instrumentation. Some one may ask
| why no one of the twenty-one band
members has selected and purchased
bass horn for himself. There are a
n6mber of reasons. Any sort of bass
horn issvery expensive-also, it is of
no use in the world except in a band.
The boy who plays it must be a "big
fellow"-therefore high school stud
ent, and his years as member of the
school band are limited. He simply
cannot afford to invest so much money
in that way. There are plenty of
boys, however, who will be glad to
play the instrument if it is in the
school
At present the band has the follow
ing enrolment: Solo cornets, Sammy
Savage, Karl Henderly; first cornets,
Chivalette Smith, Albert Frampton,
Kingman Cole; second and third cor
net, Herschel Roberts, Joe McCullagh,
Donald Abbott; altos, Malcolm Davis,
Francis Henderly; trombones, Elton
Henderly, Edgar Roberts, Leroy Car
roll; baritone, Chester Fort; clarinet
Robert Simmons; snare drum, Gordon
Cole; bass drum, William Barnett,
piano, Turney Colbert Clarence
Camp, who plays tenor horn is out OF
town for the summer, and Charles
Blankenship, trombone, and Richard
Moxley, cornet, will soon be ready fol
membership.
School bands are no longer an inno-
vation. Parents and educators; ir
fact, everyone interested in the wei.
fare of boys, unanimously concede
that as boys Organization the school
band has no rival. In many schools
today an instrumental director is
employed whose entire time is giver
to training the band and orchestrs
members individually and collectively
The school furnishes many of the in.
struments, the lessons are a part Of
the curriculum, and credits are giver
for the time spent in classes and prac
tee
| Ocala's enthusiastic band member:
have purchased their own instru
ments, paid for their own lessons ane
cheerfully given up two evenings {
week for rehearsals, where they have
worked hard and conscienciously fol
an hour and half. And all this the!
have done expecting no credit save
that which they themselves will bring
to the school through their efforts.
And so, the school band asks tn,
people of Ocala to hear their concer
Monday night, and if at its conclus
Jon they think it merits a bass horl
to drop a nickle or dime or two-bit'
ain the hat" which the boys will pass
The following program will b.
given:
1. Pastime Schottische (Keiffsr).
2. Twilight Serenade.
8. Violet Mazurka.
A. Baritone solo. "Old Kentuck.
Home" (Foster), Chester Fort.
5. Waltz, Apple Blossoms
6. March, "The o. Fl. S." (B. G
Colel, introducing "Cheer for Ocala
Z. America.