Biography

Composer, songwriter ("Sound Off", "On Brave Old Army Team"), conductor, cellist, author and teacher, educated in public schools, and an orchestra leader at 16. He was a cellist in the orchestras of Theodore Thomas and Walter Damrosch, and in the New York Philharmonic between 1888-1898. Later he was bandmaster for the 17th US Infantry Band, and served in the Philippines between 1898-1901. From 1901 to 1909 he taught music and conducted band in New York, and then until 1917 he taught music in the US Military Academy. During WWI he served as an officer in the US Army then led the West Point Band and Orchestra for 25 years. Joining ASCAP in 1936, his other popular-song compositions include "At the Fair", "On to Victory", "It's the Army", "Down in Maryland", "Luck O'Blarney", "West Point From Dawn to Midnight", "A Moorish and Spanish Episode", "Army Team" and "West Point March".
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