Experience the music of KEENE's very own E.E. Bagley, with the NEWMONT
MILITARY BAND. Sunday, August 25, 2019 At 3 PM KEENE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Experience authentic sounds of the late 1890s with the Newmont
Military Band (NMB) when it performs at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 25,
2019 in Heberton Hall, 60 Winter Street, at the Keene Public Library.
The event is free and open to the public.
Many are the historical connections with this band and Keene, from a
performer in the band itself, James C. Chesebrough, Professor Emeritus
of Keene State College, to the famous composer of music to be
performed at the event, Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857–1922), a favorite
son of Keene and the person to whom the bandstand on Central Square
was dedicated in 1979 by the visiting First Lady Rosalyn Carter.
NMB, which was formed in 1995 in Windsor, VT., follows the original
instrumentation that many of the ”Military” bands employed in the
late 1890s. Most of the brass instruments played by the musicians in
NMB were manufactured during the 19th century, and all of them harken
back over 100 years when compared to the sound of a modern band.
NMB’s 2019 program, The Music of New England’s Bagley Brothers,
features the music of E.E. Bagley, whose music was known far and wide,
while he resided in Keene for the majority of his professional career.
He wrote and first performed the National Emblem March in Keene. The
composition remained second only to John Philip Sousa’s Stars and
Stripes Forever in popularity, according to the late Keene Historian
David Proper.
The late Mr. Bagley’s gravesite and memorial are located in
Keene’s Greenlawn Cemetery.
E.E. Bagley’s older brother, Ezra M. Bagley (1853-1886), was a
successful performer in venues around the world.
Made possible through the generous donation of Ruth and Carl Jacobs of
Keene and through the auspices of the Historical Society of Cheshire
County, the performance will include music from the War Between the
States, love songs, marches, dances, and old folk songs. Very likely
also to be performed will be the National Emblem March.
The band has performed at the Shelburne Museum’s Heritage Days in
Windsor, VT; the Franklin Pierce Homestead in Hillsborough, NH; The
Gettysburg, PA, Band Festival several times; The Lutheran Seminary at
Gettysburg; and at numerous other historic venues.
NMB players possess a different level of skill to produce the sound so
indicative of the old-time bands. Their uniforms are based on photos
of the Windsor Military Band performing at the summit of Mt. Ascutney
in 1903.
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