Show Marine l Baud Bana Sets Sels Appearance In Ill Vernal Oct Ocl 6 The old year United States Marine Band the old cst cat military symphonic musi musical cal organization In the coun country try will visit Vernal oct 6 under auspices of Junior High School Rand Band Organizations as part of the ap proved tour covering the Pacific Coach states and elev- elev eleven en states the first such tour since 1959 The tour will wUl open at Kennett Square Pennsylvania on September carry the Band approximately miI miles and and s-and sandI i I conclude ot at Harrisburg VIr I iginia ginia on November J Mrs Claudius Banks has announced that matinee and 1 evening concerts will wUl be pre seated at the Uintah I gymnasium with musical works b by the worlds world's finest composers and stirring mar mara ches chea which have brought the Marine Rand Dand acclaim from visiting dignitaries ot of almost I every evely country In the world Under the leadership of Lt I Col Albert the Marine Rand Band is known to millions of Americans through through ough Its annual tours its fre quent radio broa broadcasts casts and television appearances and Its concert series In the Na- Na Nation's Na tion's Capital The annual tours originated under the di di- di direction of John Philip Sousa in 1891 and have afforded Americans living outside the Washington area an to see Se and hear the world famous Band Dand whoso whose history goes back farther than I the Capital City itself Familiarly known as The Presidents President's Own the Marine Band Dand has played for every inauguration since Thomas Jeffersons Jefferson's Founded in 1790 1708 by an Act of Congress the Band has played for all of- of official functions in the Na Na- Na Capital and all import import- important ant making history events in inthis inthis this country since that date The personnel of the Band includes musicians carefully screened and selected from some of the nations nation's leading conservatories symphony or or- or orchestras high school and col- col college college lege bands To be accepted In Inthe inthe the Band an applicant must pass a strenuous audition and anda undergo a rigid physIcal ex ex- ex examination When the Marine BInd Band ap- ap appears appears pears in h Vernal on em Oct 6 it will mark the first fall con con- concert cert appearance of this color color- colorful ful musical organization In Inthis inthis this community |