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In 1927, Leonard Falcone started as director of the band. Falcone was an Italian immigrant and the brother of University of Michigan band director Nicholas Falcone.Many of the band's traditions were established during his 40-year tenure and the band changed from a 65-member ROTC auxiliary into an adjunct of the new department that would become today's College of Music.
Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) [1] was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. [3] After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorate), he became the pianist and arranger for the vocal group the Hi-Lo's in the late 1950s.
Director, Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band [515] Henry R. Pattengill: 1886–1890 Assistant professor of English [516] H. Owen Reed: 1939–1976 composer, conductor, music theorist [517] A. J. M. Smith: 1943–1972 Canadian poet and anthologist [518] Diane Wakoski: retired 2011 Professor of Creative Writing, Michigan State University
Slum Village is a hip-hop group founded in Detroit, composed of original members Baatin, T3 and J. Dilla. T3 remains the only original member left after Baatin and J. Dilla left the group and ...
In 1994, Viola was the first woman inducted into the Minnesota Discovery Center Polka Hall of Fame. [7]On September 16, 2001, she was posthumously inducted into the Michigan State Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony conducted in the historic Community Hall at South Range, Michigan, a venue she had performed many times in the 1930s and 1940s.
Diana Ross: The Motown luminary made her name in the 1960s with the Supremes — the most successful U.S. vocal group of the era — and went on to superstardom as a solo artist.
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Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan Central concert: Behind the scenes ...