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...members of the 85-member Marine Band, and the 20-piece Marine symphony orchestra, they get to almost all presidential social functions. At receptions, they march guests in with tunes like Under the Starry Banner, march them out to Loyal Comrades. Says blue-eyed, dimpled Captain William F. Santelmann, director of the three-in-one band: "The effect on the guests is psychological. Something about the tempo of a march makes you feel . . . things have got to move...
...Santelmann has been a member of the band through three White House occupancies, became its conductor in 1940. During the Hoover Administration, the band played barn dances in the East Room. In the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Marines never appeared at the White House without Lord Geoffrey Amherst. In Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...
Last week two of the most famed bands in the U. S., the Navy and the Marine, were out & about the country on their annual concert tours. Their programs made good listening for patriots. The Marine Band's Captain William F. Santelmann played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
...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...
When he had finished, the audience cheered for two minutes. Then he handed his baton to his successor: sharp-nosed William F. Santelmann, son of the man who conducted the marines before Captain Branson...