Word: fanciulli
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...band has also given concerts. In the 18905, when John Philip Sousa headed it, the U. S. Marine Band became one of the best in the world. When Bandmaster Sousa quit to conduct his own celebrated outfit, the Marine Band's baton fell to an Italian named Francesco Fanciulli, who led it for five years. Since then it has had only two conductors, fiddle-playing, German-born William H. Santelmann and jovial, bespectacled, U. S.-born Captain Taylor Branson...
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