"Oh No", you say, "not Cabell again!!"

Thanks to those of you who pointed me toward some photographs.  I never found one of band that was 'exactly right', but leafing through the photos was really interesting.

My question now regards music.... what else?

I spent four to six hours over the weekend trying to find anything about programs of music that were played there.  I found an organist who gave a dozen concerts, found that bands were there from Missouri and the State of Oregon, West Point, and probably VPI, but no programs.  I have written them all.  But a free pocket CD of 1907, 1807 and 2007 music (preliminary), to the first reader who can send me a list of tunes from actual programs!!!

I am now up to 16 selections from 1907 to be included on the real CD which David Diggs and the Lehigh University Wind Ensemble will record at the end of this year, but would like to find a Sousa march or two (in addition to his little known "Powhatan's Daughter" which I already have.)

A related question is records of the management/operations of the Exposition.  I have the two volumes about it which are full of photos, and I lurched through the book collection at Jamestown Settlement gift shop last Friday.  Based on the number of marches that I have discovered with more or less the same name "Jamestown Exposition March and Two Step", I surmise there must have been a competition to select and then 'commission' a march of that name.  Wm Wall Whiddit was the official organist and I think the official musician, so maybe he convened a committee.  In any case, likewise a free pocket CD as described above (that's one of those itty bitty CDs that hold only 24 minutes of music, but are convenient to mail) to the first person who can find a reference for me on how all those marches got the same name.

Randy Cabell
The Trumpeter of Jamestowne (this year, at any rate)

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