title: William P. Foster
American Bandmasters Association
Joseph Hermann
Kathryn Salfelder
Timothy Rhea
Lincolnshire Posy
Edwin Franko Goldman
Green Bushes
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
John Zdechlik
sentences: William Patrick Foster (August 25, 1919 – August 28, 2010), also known as The Law and The Maestro, was the director of the noted Florida A&M University Marching "100".
 He served as the band's director from 1946 to his retirement in 1998.
 His innovations revolutionized college marching band technique and the perceptions of the collegiate band.
 Foster was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the National Association for Distinguished Band Conductors Hall of Fame, the Florida Music Educators Association Hall of Fame and the Afro-American Hall of Fame among others.
 He also served as the president of the American Bandmasters Association and was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Bill Clinton.
 Foster wrote the book titled "The Man Behind the Baton".
The American Bandmasters Association (ABA) was formed in 1929 by Edwin Franko Goldman to promote concert band music.
 Goldman sought to raise esteem for concert bands among musicians and audiences.
 The reputations of concert bands suffered in comparison to symphony orchestras due to factors including "the concert band’s concert venue, often out-of-doors, the difficulty of conductors to obtain a quality music education, a limited repertoire that with the exception of marches was largely borrowed from the libraries of the orchestra, and a lack of camaraderie among the leading bandmasters/conductors of the period."
Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.
 He is also the current President of the American Bandmasters Association.
Kathryn Salfelder (born 1987 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a contemporary American composer, conductor and pianist, based in the Boston area.
 She has received commissions from the Albany Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, United States Air Force Band – Washington D.C., American Bandmasters Association, New York Virtuoso Singers, and Japan Wind Ensemble Conductors Conference (JWECC).
Dr. Timothy Rhea (born June 18, 1967) is the Director of Bands at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.
 Rhea is the conductor of the Texas A&M Wind Symphony and the director of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band.
 Additionally, he is the administrative head of the instrumental music department and contributing composer and arranger for all Texas A&M Band Department Ensembles.
 As of March 2016, he is the President of the American Bandmasters Association.
 He previously served as the President-Elect prior to becoming the President of the association.
Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association.
 Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.
 The work debuted with three of the movements on March 7, 1937 by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from several bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor.
 One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over 150 works, but is best known for his marches.
 He founded the renowned Goldman Band of New York City and the American Bandmasters Association.
 Goldman's works are characterized by their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos.
 He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches.
 He wrote singing and whistling into the score of "On the Mall" (which vies with "Chimes of Liberty" as his two most-enduring marches).
Green Bushes is an English folk song (Roud #1040, Laws P2) which is featured in the second movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite", in Percy Grainger's "Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folksong)", and in George Butterworth's "The Banks of Green Willow".
 The melody is very similar to that of the "Lost Lady Found" movement of Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, and to The Cutty Wren.
Variations on a Korean Folk Song is a major musical piece written for concert band by John Barnes Chance in 1965.
 As the name implies, "Variations" consists of a set of variations on the Korean folk song "Arirang", which the composer heard while in South Korea with the U.S. Army in the late 1950s.
 In 1966 the piece was awarded the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award.
John Zdechlik ("Zuh-DEK-lik") (born 2 May 1937) is an American composer, music teacher, and conductor.
 Zdechlik has been elected to the American Bandmasters Association and many of his compositions have become standard concert band repertoire, including Chorale and Shaker Dance and Psalm 46.

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 The American Bandmasters Association (ABA) was formed in 1929 by Edwin Franko Goldman to promote concert band music.
 Goldman sought to raise esteem for concert bands among musicians and audiences.
 The reputations of concert bands suffered in comparison to symphony orchestras due to factors including "the concert band’s concert venue, often out-of-doors, the difficulty of conductors to obtain a quality music education, a limited repertoire that with the exception of marches was largely borrowed from the libraries of the orchestra, and a lack of camaraderie among the leading bandmasters/conductors of the period." 

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 Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.
 He is also the current President of the American Bandmasters Association. 

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 Kathryn Salfelder (born 1987 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a contemporary American composer, conductor and pianist, based in the Boston area.
 She has received commissions from the Albany Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, United States Air Force Band – Washington D.C., American Bandmasters Association, New York Virtuoso Singers, and Japan Wind Ensemble Conductors Conference (JWECC). 

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 Dr. Timothy Rhea (born June 18, 1967) is the Director of Bands at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.
 Rhea is the conductor of the Texas A&M Wind Symphony and the director of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band.
 Additionally, he is the administrative head of the instrumental music department and contributing composer and arranger for all Texas A&M Band Department Ensembles.
 As of March 2016, he is the President of the American Bandmasters Association.
 He previously served as the President-Elect prior to becoming the President of the association. 

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 Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association.
 Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.
 The work debuted with three of the movements on March 7, 1937 by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from several bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

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 Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor.
 One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over 150 works, but is best known for his marches.
 He founded the renowned Goldman Band of New York City and the American Bandmasters Association.
 Goldman's works are characterized by their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos.
 He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches.
 He wrote singing and whistling into the score of "On the Mall" (which vies with "Chimes of Liberty" as his two most-enduring marches). 

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 Green Bushes is an English folk song (Roud #1040, Laws P2) which is featured in the second movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite", in Percy Grainger's "Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folksong)", and in George Butterworth's "The Banks of Green Willow".
 The melody is very similar to that of the "Lost Lady Found" movement of Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, and to The Cutty Wren. 

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 John Zdechlik ("Zuh-DEK-lik") (born 2 May 1937) is an American composer, music teacher, and conductor.
 Zdechlik has been elected to the American Bandmasters Association and many of his compositions have become standard concert band repertoire, including Chorale and Shaker Dance and Psalm 46. 

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Answer: Lincolnshire Posy