100 Years Ago: Alton High Band Completes an Active Summer
ALTON - The Alton High School Band had a very busy 1925 summer break. Despite the fact that the band had only been in existence for less than a year, they were very much in demand and travelled all over the area to perform. (The first Alton High School Band concert was on September 19, 1924, which you can read more about here: https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/100-years-ago-alton-high-school-band-plays-first-concert-75932.cfm ). An Alton Evening Telegraph article on August 26, 1925, described the band’s various recent activities. Director B.L. Johnson was gone on an all-summer honeymoon tour of the West, and so originally the band had decided to pause playing together during the summer and resume at the start of school in the fall. But there were so many opportunities to perform that George A. Reider, choir director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, stepped in as leader for the summer. They had regular practices at the high school and then, when repairs in the hig
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