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Sailing Masters Celebrate 50 Years
By John Johl the corps embarks on a membership ready been scheduled with several or the past 50 years parades drive to attract people interested in others pending. and musters all along the being part of history while perform - the spirit of 1812, the tradition of Fshoreline, as well as places ing on the fife, snare or bass drum. the us navy, continues every time from Maine to Bermuda, have each year the corps performs in ex - the sailing Masters don their uni - thrilled to the drumbeat and the fife cess of 20 parades, musters and con - form, form up and march down the melodies of the sailing Masters of certs, in addition to the weekly street to the trill of fifes and the beat 1812 Fife and Drum Corps. Formed rehearsal sessions each Monday of the drums. in 1963 as the essex Fife and Drum night at the essex town hall. John Johl is a member of the Sailing Corps by Patty allen, it was mostly In 2013, the sailing Masters will ap - Masters of 1812. a family affair, including her father pear in all the shoreline communi - and two brothers. among the first, or ties, as well as Booth Bay harbor, charter members, was John Johns of Maine for Windjammer Days, Platts - essex and sal Chiaramonte of Clin - burgh, new york for the Battle of ton. they both participate in corps lake Champlain, and Fisher’s Island activities to this day. for a Fourth of July observance. today the corps perpetuates the twenty-three appearances have al - memory of the naval sailing master of the period 1810 – 1814. each mem - ber wears the uniform of the third ranking officer of the line. this offi - healy Flute cer was responsible for the integrity and operation of the sails, including sail maintenance, furling, and unfurl - CoMPany ing. his position would be equiva - lent to today’s engineer on large skip healy ships. In the beginning, the members Fife & Flute Maker wanted to commemorate the role of essex in the War of 1812. the corps Featuring hand-crafted instruments consists of 12 to 15 musicians who of the finest quality. have a repertoire of ancient music in - corporating well over 100 tunes, Also specializing in repairs and restoration many of which are arranged into of modern and wooden Fifes and Flutes medleys. all music is played from memory, on parade or in concert. like many fife and drum corps, on the web: www.skiphealy.com membership over the years has fluc - Phone/Fax: (401) 935-9365 tuated from a high of 40 musicians email: [email protected] and color guard to the present day level of 12 to 15 musicians. each year, 5 Division street Box 2 3 east greenwich, rI 02818 Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 3
ancient Times 3 ThE 4Th AnnuAl uSArD ConVEnTIon at the Heritage Hotel in Lancaster, PA
By WIllIaM a. MCgrath, Jr. steve requested, of those nearby, that we not make much with editing by Robert Zarfoss and contributions from fanfare of his departure. this was obviously very kind Bill Maling and Mark Beecher and thoughtful on steve’s part so as to not shift focus away from the pending evening events. this plan was en - ormally we would open this arti - dorsed and encouraged by those nearby Steve Young cle by describing the festive activ - aforementioned. after arrival at the clinic nities that took place at the 4th it was ordered that steve be taken to a annual u.s.a.r.D. Convention. that de - hospital. scription will follow but in the meantime We continued and went about the con - there is a need to report the nearly simul - vention with as near an air of normalcy as taneous occurrence of steve young’s illness possible. later we learned that steve had at the convention. these two events were a blood clot in his lung and that his lung unfolding and happening nearly all at was partially collapsed. Many partici - once. pants visited steve at the hospital the day the convention began on Friday evening, after the convention. after 11 days in the with busy check-in and some drumming hospital, steve improved some and even activities. saturday morning there were went home to rest and recharge. he sub - more arrivals and registrations. We started our normal sequently checked back into the hospital a few days later operations welcoming everyone and providing a re - and passed away after further complications. hearsal time-slot for all presenters and clinicians. We got It is with much gratitude that the u.s.a.r.D. thanks through the first and into the second half of the day at a steve’s brother D. scott young, his wife Debra and niece steady pace. heather a. young all of york, as well as Bob and Pat as the convention participants were converging for the Zarfoss, and Billy and Kathy Mojica for keeping vigil and saturday evening cocktail hour and dinner, some were sharing news of steve’s progress. noticing that steve young was having difficulty breath - Please see The Muffled Drum section on page 15 of this ing. steve told Pat Zarfoss of his problems and she sug - publication for the complete obituary. gested driving him to a nearby clinic. Before leaving
he u.s.a.r.D. 4th annual Convention unfolded new and potential personnel are included in a most com - much in the same way it had for the last three plete fashion. Bill hartmann is the sergeant at arms and tyears. We registered our guests and performers gatekeeper of the board making sure that important spe - and partook in our Friday evening social hour in the ball - cific items are not left out. nick Biscotti attends all meet - room of this fine heritage hotel in lancaster, Pa. ings for the sake of planning and execution of the next let’s start by recognizing the fine work that our Board convention. Doug Morrow is our librarian. gary rock - of Directors provided regarding the many aspects of this well is our media expert who provides a variety of media fine organization and our convention. Billy Mojica is the capabilities for the fine clinicians who put on their pre - membership coordinator who makes sure that all of our sentations at the convention. Joe gillotti cont. on page 4 Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 4
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is the website master who keeps all internal membership sor. communications at a constant and available readiness. the Cooper - gary gillotti is the recording secretary scribing all meetings man Drum for the rendering of our minutes and valuable input. Char - Company, lie Kammer who is our treasurer, registrar and photogra - tended to by pher makes sure that all the bills are paid and participants Jim ellis, of any kind are properly accounted for. I “yours truly” in - joined us with vite and schedule the performers and clinicians so as to cre - a fine display ate a performance and social itinerary for the convention of drums, and steve young had the arduous task of securing the hotel drum sticks and handling the pre-registration and coordinating the and slings. evening dinner. they had a Dave very impres - Dave nesser nesser sive display (left) and Steve Young checks in showcasing (right) with steve the finest Cooperman Drum young at crafted Company the regis - rope drums tration in the en - table as Fri - tire indus - day night try. activities there start. the was yet an - registration other dis - table was manned by Charlie Kammer for most of the play, but Bill reamer Display weekend. Charlie unfortunately does not appear in most of not from a these photos because he was the one who was actually tak - sponsor. ing them. as such without Charlie’s fine work we would this one was from the people who not have this treasure trove of visual media to display in were associated with the William this very article. Charlie Kammer, by the way, is the rudi - “Bill” reamer camp. they show - mental bass drummer who appears on the upper right rear cased CDs and sticks, as well as a va - of the Monumental City photo later in this article. riety of photographs from Mr. ginger Wilk from the new england Chapter at times also reamer’s long and distinguished ca - sat in at the registration table for Charlie and her capable reer. What an interesting display it assistance was greatly appreciated. was! two sponsor displays and one participant display were our Friday evening festiv - Skyliner Alumni Duet located around the edge of the room enabling an atmos - ities began with the new phere of festivity. the Black river Company was on hand england Chapter of the with a choice of CDs, drum instruction books, sheet music u.s.a.r.D, the rudimental and a wide va - Drum Club of new eng - riety of drum land, performing a piece Gary Gillotti sticks. gary called Muster Jam II with a gillotti along narrative from Phyllis with Joe and gillotti. the piece consisted Phyllis gillotti of original solos for various tended the fife and drum tunes written booth repre - by John J. McDonagh, Francis germinaro, terry hen - senting this nessey, C. gallastraci, r. Mcgowan and gary gillotti. Per - very fine spon - formers were gary gillotti, Dave hevrin and Joe gillotti on Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 5
ancient Times 5 new England Chapter of the uSArD this highly charged duet puts the pace for this event. they are really on a motivating demonstration fine performers who bring pride and of both technical skill and enter - excellence to their drumming even tainment. they trade-off with fifty or more years after their dis - quick short rolls and contrast charge. What a great way to start the their speed with highly complex day with such a fine example artful unison parts. they performed drumming. nothing wild about this three pieces the first of which was called the Ballad , next Rudi-Buds , and finally OBE which stands for Our Best Ef - forts . a mass drumming snare, gary gay and randy Wilcox on rehearsal was next with all rudimental bass with ginger Wilk, those in attendance playing David Fischmann and Kathy Brown traditional standard drum on fife. Fine snare drumming pieces. this, by the way, was uS Air Force Drum Ensemble abounded with accompaniment fea - not only a great deal of fun, turing fifer ginger Wilk and again the but served the purpose of being prob - blue yonder, these guys are just flat expected marked excellence of one of ably one of the most functional and out impressive. the finest rudimental bass drummers important elements of the weekend. Bill Messerschmidt and austin an - in the activity, gary gay. this Black this was the place and time that al - drulis played selections from the river / new lowed us to share the responsibility of hawthorne Caballeros with a solo by england con - performing, keeping and preserving les Parks, then continued with a Trib - tingency of the our very important art of drumming ute to Bill Boerner followed by a snare u.s.a.r.D. alive for future generations. drum and bass drum duet performing was fascinat - after these Friday evening highlights a piece written by John Flowers titled ing and well- were concluded, the social aspect of King of Kings . they finished with a rounded with our gathering continued until the wee skillfully played selection called White a strong per - hours of the morning in anticipation of Horse by Bill Messerschmidt, and Do- formance. the saturday morning with everyone It which is a snare drum duet by an - Frank Zap - eagerly anticipating the next day’s drew reamer. pone, also events. saturday morning began with rick Beckham, from the great state of known as an hour of open rehearsal so people texas, presented a clinic based on the “the lone could smell the coffee, acclimate them - theme: “What is rudimental Drum - Drummer,” featured a selves to the room and prepare for a ming?” after some introductory play - solo called Loop da Loop , great day of drumming. ing he spoke a little about himself. he a mixture of traditional the group brave enough to take up presented a segment on rudimental co - and matched-grip tech - the first morning performance slot was ordination, and discussed examples of niques using back-stick - the u.s. air Force Drum ensemble what he called double grid paradid - ing and other consisting of former members of the dles, as well as a segment on hybrids interesting and unusual u.s.a.F. Drum & Bugle Corps of rhetorically asking: “What are they?” percussion elements. Washington D.C. Performers included, he played two etudes from the book he delivered his per - from left to right are John Bosworth, Rudimental Drummer . his shared formance with great va - steve young, Bob Zarfoss, eric landis, thoughts on competitive solo compo - riety, pride and excellence. Bill Mojica, and guest, sean landis on sition and concluded by leading a dis - the skyliner alumni drum duet fea - the riser. It certainly was the right de - cussion of examples from one of his tured Joe Fontana and Jack Murray. cision to have these fine drummers set own solos, wrapping cont. on page 6 Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 6
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up with a question and answer seg - repertoires in its most original context Thunder and Lightening , Black Pearl and ment. his clinic was very captivating without changes or variations. to do Just Having Fun . Performers were nick and done with great excellence and this, they chose Paddy on the Hand Car Biscotti, ron Church, Charlie Kam - skill. rick is a really fine drummer and written by george s. and harold I. mer, Bill hartman, Bill Mojica and Bill great fellow as well, and is certainly ripperger in 1934, which later ap - strickland. here is yet another fine ex - welcome back at any time. peared in the J. Burns Moore book The ample of ancient rudimental drum - Art of Drumming . ming played in its truest form with nY Chapter of uSArD John Flowers, skee great precision. What a treat it was to Derr and Barb Flowers have them here as they represented performed a solo named the state of Maryland and the state of The Round-About , writ - drumming with great distinction. ten by John and dedi - they are a terrific bunch of fellows cated to Bill Mcgrath Jr. who have a great deal of fun doing all this piece was crafted of this. Much like the air Force people, for three voices, that of these same fellows have drummed to - snare, bass and cymbal. It had a Middle river Ancients of Baltimore variety of time the new york Chapter of signatures which made it all u.s.a.r.D. known as the new york that much more interesting Drummers association nyDa” per - and geared for precision formed three solos from a 60s junior drummers. It is highly appre - corps known as the emerald Cadets of ciated that John took the time rochester, n.y. these pieces were and effort to dedicate that written by Doug Kleinhans, adapted solo to “yours truly” as he by Bill Mcgrath Jr. and were pre - also dedicated a solo to Paul sented in tribute to both Doug and the Mosley of C.a.D.r.e. and to emerald Cadets. special recognition the late eric Perrilloux. that’s pretty gether for 55 plus years. that alone is was given to guy Iannello, who was good company to be in! there will be nothing short of remarkable. in attendance at the convention, as an more on John Flowers in this article as the skyliners drum ensemble earlier instructor of the emerald this was the first of three appearances played a piece known as The Winner . Cadets. Performers were Bill Mc - John made in this saturday afternoon this skilled ensemble consisted of grath, Bill Putnam, both from that portion of the convention. eight players. they took some older original corps, Doug Morrow, on the hanover lancers drum-line, in - ideas and some newer ideas and snare with Paul halifax on bass drum. structed and led by Bob Zarfoss, per - blended them into a streamlined mod - Part of this demonstration perform - formed a warm-up exercise, a street ern approach to this percussion en - ance included an explanation of how beat and a drum solo known as The semble of high skill. their clever Doug’s writings were with his Duck, 2013 . this solo is a continuum of performance was well delivered and use of syncopation and superimpos - previous years’ efforts as interesting well received. there were three ing complicated rhythms over the bar adaptations and updates are added snares, Joe Fontana, Jack Murray and line, while still making that rhythm annually in order to enhance their per - Matt Dennison, two cymbal players, flow with ease and smoothness. formance. this is a fine and proud Karen Kox and evelyn Krejci, two another element of the n.y.D.a. / group whose rich heritage represents bass drummers steve turner and Jack n.y. Chapter of the u.s.a.r.D.-emer - them proudly as one of drum corps’ stern and one triple bass player Chet ald Cadet presentation was to encour - earliest examples of fine drumming Figurski. Winners …absolutely! snare age all rudimental drum groups to but presented in today’s drum corps drummer Matt Dennison, later that perform at least one piece of their fu - context. day joined and became a regular ture presentations in an original form the Middle river ancients of Balti - member of the u.s.a.r.D. as he must and to incorporate that piece in future more, MD played such standards as have felt right at home at this great Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 7
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Mark Beecher and ensemble legion Pennsylvania state Mark Beecher, steve gillespie, lilli Championship. there im - Beiduk Middlebrooks, steve Kirk - mediately followed a duet patrick, Bill Maling and glenn Mc - tribute to Bill reamer by Bill Causland. tom Middlebrooks was the Maling, a former reamer bass drummer. they performed ca - student, and glenn Mc - dences, the Long Roll , Downfall of Paris , Causland a student of Mal - and Three Camps & Fifers Delight . ing. Bill Maling and glenn McCausland the remainder of this played a separate duet tribute to Bill n.a.r.D. / reamer clinic reamer. Maling was a reamer stu - saw more reamer solos and dent when reamer came back from weekend. cadences performed by the group, WWII and taught the howard C. Mc - after a lunch break, the afternoon such as archer-epler '57, which in - Call Junior Drum & Bugle Corps of session began with a clinic and cluded the expla - Philadelphia. glenn demonstration given by u.s.a.r.D. nation of was a teenage stu - member and current President of reamer's coining dent of Maling back n.a.r.D., Mark Beecher depicting of the phrase in the 1950's/60's. “the William h. reamer rudimental “trouble-Makers” the tribute was Drum Method.” the clinic began with a term he used for played on their per - Mark welcoming the u.s.a.r.D. Con - the 6 stroke roll. sonal “grand re - vention attendees, followed by his en - there was a public” rope semble performing The Downfall of brief explanation tension drum man - Paris , which included a last minute and demonstra - ufactured by Bill cameo performance by Connecticut tion of the Podem - reamer in the early Patriots bass drummer, Don Mason, ski snare Drum 2000s. also of the Connecticut valley Field Method, reamer John rozum put Music and a former Connecticut having been a stu - on a clinic entitled yanks member. dent of the “how a Drum set after introducing each member of Philadelphia or - Player Prepares and the group, Mark touched upon some chestra Percus - Performs for the of the finer details of the methods and sionist, Benjamin audience.” John techniques taught by 4-time national Podemski. also demonstrated in - Glenn McCausland (left) snare Drum Champion, William h. demonstrated and Bill Maling (right) corporating rudi - reamer who was a renowned “Drum - was a Marple- ments into drum mers service and Drumstick Maker.” newtown high school drum solo in solos and “how rudiments are incor - the reamer system of 4 strokes - 6/8 from 1971. this famous Macey 6/8 porated into his drum set playing.” Down, up, tap and half up for rolls, solo, named by reamer for student In his demonstration, John made ref - with combined influences by sanford rita Macey, was performed by her to erence to how your experiences affect Moeller, J. Burns Moore, earl sturtze win nationals. Don Mihok who was what you play, such as other drum - and the Connecticut style of rudi - also a reamer student won a national mers you have seen, either live or on mental Drumming was then demon - title as well. another piece performed video, or the correct use of expressive strated by Mark, while excerpts from was called This Is True , circa 1971, and playing such as the use of dynamics, reamer's handwritten lesson books another piece called Cadence '71 . the speed, and playing toward a theme. were displayed on the screen in real clinic ended with the group perform - he stated that your performance level time. ing one of Bill’s favorite solos, Three should be done with the characteris - the group then performed a solo, Camps , which was a requirement for tics of sensitivity technique, rudi - McCall '52 , written by reamer for the all of Bill reamer’s students. ments and the upper and lower howard W. McCall Bluebirds drum - the William h. reamer drum group interaction of bass and snare. he line in 1952, winning the american consisted of these snare drummers: added that playing cont. on page 8 Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 8
ancient Times 8 cont. from page 7 a drum solo is much like making a Corps a long and honored history of as well. John then performed excerpts speech in that there is a logical begin - playing before several u.s. presidents, from a solo dedicated to Doug Klein - ning an extended middle and a well numerous commemorative events hans called the “edinboro swinger”, thought out ending. and musters from Maine to Michigan. which demonstrated a complicated then John did his magic and played amy armstrong, lead stick of the range of interesting ruff and triplet a drum solo with the concepts he had group, made comments as well about combinations. mentioned earlier delivering a well the history and authenticity of John also wrote and performed a performed piece that had all of the Moodus some of which was passed to piece he entitled a Tribute to Perrilloux . aforementioned elements. What a her from actual family members who this original composition was styl - treat it was to see this fine and well had an obvious in-depth knowledge ized in the same manner that eric Per - disciplined drummer deliver his craft. about the history of the eli Brown rilloux would have rendered lending our hat is off to John rozum for a per - drums and of the playing style the eric’s style of compositional format. a formance very well done indeed. group so prominently and honorably piece was done as a tribute to “John displayed. s. Pratt” in the same fashion. this fine Moodus Drum another piece presented by John and Fife Corps, as they are consisted of the favoring right hand known, with the word 16th note diddle figures also contain - “drum” being mentioned ing inverted flam diddles and flam first, was one of the biggest taps. Paul Mosley supported this most hits of the weekend. their interesting demonstration on rudi - capable performers were mental bass with highly innovative amy armstrong, Patrick bass parts. Murray, David strong, and after a short break, the Connecticut Moodus Drum & Fife Corps Jeff sanborn on snare; bass Patriots performed with Brendan drum was erin Mcnamara Mason leading this magnificently pol - Moodus is a Connecticut based and sherry Mclaughlin; terri ander - ished and well executed precision drum and fife corps and is from, of all son Murray, and Jamie Murray, was rudimental group. this drum ensem - places, Moodus, Connecticut. the ori - on fife with Chuck Paul and Kris Paul ble consisted of eight snares, four gins of the Moodus Drum & Fife in the Color guard. bass, four fifes and featured a very ac - Corps date back to 1821 when If you are ever out and about on the complished scottish drummer, a hezekiah Percival learned to drum drum and fife scene and hear of this snare drummer who competed as one from samuel Wilcox of Middletown, Moodus unit ap - Connecticut. their open stick “an - pearing some - Connecticut Patriots cient” style of drumming is the hall - where along the mark of the Moodus Corps and has way don’t miss it. been reverently handed down from this is an outfit those ancient times to present. the that is truly Corps strives to maintain a tempo of unique. approximately 90 beats per minute, World Drum which is considerably slower than Corps hall of that used by most corps today. this Fame’s John C. style represents the values instilled by Flowers pre - the many Moodus drummers who sented a piece have gone before them. called Snare Phrasings . It consisted of of the first americans in the national When this drumming is played on single sticking patterns contrasted swiss Competition, and Don Mason, the early 1800s original eli Brown with traditional sticking patterns fol - who is the highest winning rudimen - drums, which are restored not reman - lowed by further modern innovations. tal Bass Drummer in the northeast. ufactured, it creates a truly unique his treatment of “snare Phrasings” the st. lucy’s snare Drum trio con - sound. It is this magical sound that applied visual content and back-stick - sisted of Chew gernandt, ray has brought the Moodus Drum & Fife ing and the utilization of stick clicks schmerin and Dave richardson, all Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 9
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St. lucy’s Snare Drum Trio 9 same concept of clean beats, Warming-up-Hot! that was followed execution and precision was by another called, New Day for You . an integral part of this dis - the C.a.D.r.e. 2013 competition play. What a fine clinician arrangement selections were written and performer adrian was by Doug Kleinhans, John Flowers, and with a skill level that Fred Johnson and Paul Mosley. demonstrated his scottish snare players were: Paul Mosley, style. Jim Kane and John swartz.; Bass tri- the C.a.D.r.e. Drum en - rack: Cliff Blundell; low Bass: ron semble, which has won the Meyers; Percussion: and vince Cic - excellent and superb rudimental play - DCa Percussion ensemble World chine; Business Mgr., John MacDon - ers. this highly energized trio played Championship an unprecedented five ald; Pres., Fred Johnson; Writer & a warm-up, a les Parks solo and an times, performed next as featured arranger, Paul Mosley. original solo by Chew gernandt. guests of the evening. their attention their performance certainly was a to detail and their highly executed Special Presentations Followed textbook example of the representa - complex arrangements captivated the tion of top field competitive junior audience with a lifetime Member - corps of the 50s and 60s. this was performance ships: two were pre - sharp, clean and precise drumming level that was sented: one to rick on the highest level. second to none. Beckham and the Jon Quigg, former instructor of the their well- other to John Joseph City of Washington Pipe Band, played crafted per - roche. Presentations a solo called Up One Wall and Down the formance was were made by Joe Other , which blends american and punctuated by a gillotti and Bill Mc - scottish Pipe Band styles, some of it highly precision rick Beckham (left) and John Joseph grath. traditional, some non-traditional, but snare drum sec - roche (right) scholarships: Peter all of it performed with very great tion along with Mason of the Con - Peter Mason (center) skill. although some of us were not well-planned necticut Patriots was familiar with Jon Quigg’s style of percussion ac - presented the Patrick playing, we could greatly appreciate cessory support sullivan scholarship the range and complexity of this and a triple award by gary highly executed and skilled drum - stacked bass gillotti. ming. drum configu - lifetime achieve - adrian Mourdant, who is a member ration that was ments: three lifetime of the Percussive arts society, is also not only musi - achievements were the drum instructor for the Metro cally fitting but presented to eric Per - new york Pipe Band. they are cur - had an audi - rilloux, J. Burns Moore rent grade 3 World Champions. ence appeal that was eminently fasci - and Charles “Buck” soistman. these Drum sergeant adrian Mourdant per - nating. there is no surprise that this posthumous awards were intended to formed on snare and Pipe Major Mike well-accomplished drum ensemble is keep the names of these important Mahoney from the new york Metro so successful as the work they put into contributors to drumming in the Pipe Band performed on pipes. their their production is obvious. minds and thoughts of all drummers. selections were: Hornpipe and Jigs , C.a.D.r.e. first played a brief as for a bit of history about these March , Strathspey & Reel and a drum arrangement based on Dr. John men: eric Perrilloux was a drummer, fanfare. Jon Quigg joined adrian for a Wooton’s Drummer’s Rudimental Ref - instructor, writer and a judge. he was performance of alex Duthart's semi - erence Book . they performed six iconic, known in the Philadelphia area for in - nal drum composition, Drummer's twentieth century rudimental drum - structing the reilly raiders, and in the Fanfare . although this performance ming classics written by members of new york City area for instructing the did not consist of american rudi - the World Drum Corps hall of Fame. skyliner’s and the st. rita’s Brassmen, ments one could easily see that the they then segued into a piece called and in the long cont. on page 10 Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 10
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Island region for instructing the not break, Mass drumming at the end of the evening selden Cadets. therein the J. Burns Moore was a drummer, in - smaller num - structor, writer and a judge in the bers for this Connecticut region and later became time around. the first President of the national as - nevertheless sociation of rudimental Drummers, the quality n.a.r.D. never skipped Charles Buck soistman was a drum - a beat. mer, instructor, performer, writer and the premise manufacturer of rope drums and of this out - drumsticks in Baltimore, MD. standing per - all three of these widely known formance drummers had fife and drum, as well centered on as a drum and bugle corps back - what a typical work day, week and very important and integral part of ground, and all had a major impact on year look like in the life of a drummer what we do as members of the drumming in the us. in the old guard Fife and Drum u.s.a.r.D. this is our time to let after dinner, the old guard Fife Corps. that included tasks such as loose, relax and enjoy a big part of this and Drum Corps of Fort Myer, va, preparing for official performances event. the participants on both snare presented “a Day in the life of an old such as playing for the President and and bass were numerous and the guard Drummer.” Just when one rehearsing for their many official sound was inspiring. would think that things could not get worldwide appearances. We collectively played Old Dan any better, let's face it C.a.D.r.e. is a as official representatives of the us Tucker , Hell on the Wabash , Downfall of hard act to follow, here comes the army, the old guard averages 500 Paris , and Paddy on the Handcar . Army army old guard drum ensemble. performances annually. the Corps 2/4 was suggested by Joe Fontana and this group, with three snare and two has entertained millions in parades, contained three different versions of bass drummers for this outing, did not pageants and historical celebrations the standard Army 2/4 , the first being have as many members as last year's throughout the us and has served as the standard Army 2/4 , the second seg - ensemble but the quality was still ex - goodwill ambassadors as far away as ment called Monumental 2/4 and the ceptional. as it was the D.o.D. did not europe, australia and Canada. a finer third segment called Perrilloux 2/4 . grant permission for them to attend group of well-trained, professional Three Camps in 12/8 John s. Pratt style until the last minute due to sequester - drummers could not be found any - was next, followed by the Devil’s Flute , ing and when word finally came that where. these soldiers are superb ex - the Trouble Maker from an archer they could attend a few members al - amples of today’s us army, and they epler Musketeer reamer composition ready had a commitment they could make us proud. their performance and the reilly raiders Grey Ghost . By was of the highest the way, nick Biscotti was in the room old Guard Fife & Drum Corps measure of qual - playing in the mass drumming and he ity, technique and actually played this reilly solo on the complexity. field when it originally was played in as usual the the late 50s. evening con - on sunday morning the annual cluded with mass membership meeting was held in the drumming, a per - state room. all members were encour - formance for all to aged to participate in this wrap-up, participate. as critique and meeting so that we can stated earlier, this determine the facts for the 2014 event. aspect allows a date will be selected and announced everyone to join in July for the 5th u.s.a.r.D. annual and play and is a Convention. Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:40 PM Page 11
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Jim Smith reenacts drummer Peter Guibert’s 200 mile trek
rummer Jim smith arrived in gettysburg at noon on June 13th, 2013, having marched 200 miles Dfrom Pittsburgh, Pa as part of the 150th anniver - sary reunion of the Battle of gettysburg. his journey mir - rored that of Peter guibert, a drummer boy in the union army, who made the same 19-day trip, playing the very same drum which Jim procured in 1982, and arrived on the same date in 1913 for the 50th anniversary reunion. accompanying Jim was ray Zimmerman, who reenacted John Conroy who had similarly accompanied guibert 100 years ago. More details about the trip can be found at peterguiberttrek.com.
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Milling about before the parade begins
Marquis de Granby stand ready at the start of the parade
The Sturbridge Village Martial Musicians cross the muster field
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14 ancient Times JoSEPh John TATTAr ThE MuFFlED Joseph John tattar, a resident of Darien for 22 years passed DruM away at stamford hospital on september 4, 2012. he was the son of the late Joseph and helen Firla tattar. Joseph received a bach - elors degree from the new hampshire state teachers College and a masters from Fairfield university. he was a teacher and assistant principle in the Darien school system for 38 years. he had a lifelong love of sailing starting as a sea scout in his Joseph John Tattar youth. Joseph had a love of music playing the trumpet, French Greenwich American legion horn, recorder, flute, and fife and drum. he played fife and drum Drum Corps for the greenwich american legion Drum Corps, the german - Germantown Ancients Fife & town ancients Fife and Drum Corps and the ancient Mariners Drum Corps Fife and Drum Corps. he loved to travel and was an avid reader. Ancient Mariners Fife & Drum he taught tennis and swimming and coached baseball and bas - Corps ketball. he was a competitive badminton player as an undergrad September 4, 2012 and a nearly unbeatable amateur raquet ball player. Joseph is survived by his wife susan e. tattar; his sister Judith J. tattar; his two sons Michael (lana) tattar and their children Kerry, MJ and Jessica and Brian (Julia) tattar; his daughter Jody William h. Frueh, Jr., 70 ( Dr. Peter) Wood; his two step-sons, CB Cooke and emerson Drummer (elaine) Cooke and their children, emerson and noelle. he was Village Volunteers predeceased by his best friend and brother-in-law John “Buster” Sons & Daughters of liberty Fife Frey. & Drum Corps a memorial service was held at the First Congregational February 9, 2013 Church, Darien, Ct on saturday september 8, 2012 at 3PM. Submitted by Susan Tattar
WIllIAM h. FruEh, Jr. Steven K. Young, 65 Drummer William h. Frueh, Jr., 70, of Delmar, new york died saturday, united States Association of February 9, 2013 at home. he was born in albany on august 21, rudimental Drummers 1942, the son of the late Dorothy (Molter) and William h. Frueh, May 19, 2013 sr. the most important things in Bill’s life were church, family, teaching, and historical activities. Bill was a faithful member of Bethlehem Community Church for over 40 years, serving as an elder for many years. he worked as a social worker for nearly 40 years at northeast Career Planning in Menands, demonstrating to his clients and to the world that a disability need not be a handicap. IMPorTAnT: oBITuArIES Bill was a reenactor extraordinaire, fondly known at both eigh - teenth and nineteenth century reenactments as “the blind drum - If you know of a member of the fife and drum mer.” Bill got his start in reenacting in 1960 when he joined the community who passes away, please notify the village volunteers in Delmar. this experience led to membership Ancient Times immediately so we can ensure publication of a timely and thoughtful obituary. in numerous organizations, including the Continental Marines, the Brigade of the american revolution, the second n.y. Infantry reg - Contact the editor: iment, the sons and Daughters of liberty Fife and Drum Corps, [email protected], or the historic singing group rural Felicity, the 13th regiment albany [email protected] County Militia, the Burning of the valleys Military association, the 77th ny volunteer Infantry, the Capital District Civil War Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:41 PM Page 15
ancient Times 15 round table, the new york STEVEn K. YounG archives Partnership trust, and the Knox historical so - steven K. "steve" young, 65, passed away sunday, ciety where he served as May 19, 2013, at Memorial hospital, york, Pa. vice-president. he was a Mr. young was born in york on July 8, 1947, son of staunch supporter of Colo - the late Donald e. and geraldine D. (yohe) young. nial Williamsburg and the steve graduated from Central high school, Class of Civil War trust. a consum - 1965. after high school, he enlisted in the us air mate educator, Bill relished Force and was fortunate to be a member of the united doing historical programs states air Force Pipe Band as a drummer. his elite for schoolchildren and civic unit provided music for state Department and Presi - groups whenever the op - dential functions, and toured europe and the us. he portunity arose. he was a served his country for three and a half years, after fixture at the Mabee Farm which he attended york Junior College and the uni - historical site in rotterdam versity of Illinois, where he earned his Master's De - Junction, and conducted gree in Museum administration. three very popular classes upon graduation, steve worked as a curator for the at the heldeberg Workshop historical society of york for several years and then in voorheesville for many moved to the Corning glass Museum, where he was years. he delighted in pre - the Director of education. about 10 years later, steve senting life in the eighteenth century to students through became the Director of the Fairfield historic society, school demonstrations, especially at Canajoharie, schalmont, which rehabilitated and maintained historic buildings schoharie, and Pieter B. Coeymans schools. and artifacts in the area. he retired and returned to he is survived by his wife, nancy Frueh of Delmar; children, york to care for his mother until her death in Decem - Charles Frueh (shyra Murphy) of geneva, ny, nellie Bradley ber, 2011. (edward) of Delmar and sarah Frueh of Delmar, and grand - steve maintained a close association with the air sons William and Jacob Force Pipe Band alumni association and the north Bradley of Delmar; and step-children rebecca scanlon of american rudimental Drummer's association. niskayuna, and eric scanlon of east Berne. he was prede - Memberships include Mt. Zion united Church of ceased by his dear wife of 37 years, Donna l. Frueh. the family Christ, york, Pleasurville american legion Post 799, wishes to thank Dr. Wu and lisa Wolf, Pa and all of the staff the hawk gunning Club and various national mu - at new york oncology hematology seum organizations. for the loving care and positive atti - he is succeeded by his brother, D. scott young and tudes they displayed over the past his wife, Debra and his niece, heather a. young. four years. We are also deeply grate - steve was a wonderful, generous person, and he ful for the outstanding care provided will be greatly missed. by Dr. yip and Dr. heckman, and all survivors include a brother, D. scott young and his of the staff at saint Peter’s hospital. wife, Debra and a niece heather a. young all of york. a funeral service was held at 11:30 a memorial service was held at 11:00aM Friday, aM saturday, February 16, 2013 at May 24, 2013, at Mt. Zion united Church of Christ, the Bethlehem Community Church, 1054 ridgewood rd., york. officiating was his pas - 201 elm avenue, Delmar. relatives tor, the rev. Cathy h. sherry. and friends were invited to call at the Burial was private at the convenience of the family. church on saturday from 9:30 aM to Following the service, family and friends were invited 11:30 aM. Burial was in st. John’s to attend a reception locateddd at the american le - lutheran Cemetery, Colonie. those who wish may send a re - gion Post 799, 2590 Willow st., Pleasureville. membrance in his name to the Missions Fund at Bethlehem steve would encourage donations to the Mt. Zion Community Church, 201 elm avenue, Delmar, ny 12054. united Church of Christ, endowment Fund, 1054 Submitted by Ray Hauley ridgewood rd., york, Pa 17406. Submitted by William A. McGrath, Jr. Issue 139:Layout 1 10/24/2013 4:41 PM Page 16
16 ancientTimes The Company of Fifers & Drummers
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ancient Times 17 Item# Description Qty Price Total The Company BK001 The Company Music Book - Vol.I $19 Sto re BK002 The Company Music Book - Vol. II $24 BK003 The Company Music Book - Vol. III $15 Mail order Form BK024 The Company Music Book - Vol. IV $15 BK004 Camp Duty Music Book (CFD) $18 BK005 The Muffled Drum (CFD) $5 ShIP To: BK006 Tunes of the Hudon Valley - Vol.I (Attanasio & Grady) $10 name BK007 Tunes of the Hudon Valley - Vol.II (Attanasio & Grady) $14 BK008 Camp Dupont Music Book $7 address BK009 Chas. T. Kirk Fife Music Book $15 BK010 American Rudimental Method Drum Book (Classey) $7
s BK011 Better, Stronger, Faster (Bill Hart) $10
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c The Company of Fifers & i s CD003 Camp Lincoln (Emerick) $16 u
Drummers, inc. M CD004 200 Years of Fife & Drum in America (N.Y. Regimentals) $16 Please send this order form AP001 The Company Cap, embroidered, light blue or navy blue $16 with your payment to: AP002 The Company Cap, screened $15 roberta Armstead AP004 The Company Polo Shirt, blue - (circle size) S M L XL XXL $24 Attn: The Company Store AP005 The Company Sweat Shirt, blue - (circle size) S M L XL XXL $22
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