Comments on: About BandSir.com https://bandsir.com A musical history Fri, 30 May 2025 18:57:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dan Wolfe https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-2250 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:18:47 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-2250 In reply to Deb Faragher.

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for your kind words about the site.

All I have is posted to the BandSir.com library. Unfortunately I have no record of those particular events. I’m happy to digitize and post recording should they be made available to me.

Enjoy the day and great to hear from you!

Dan Wolfe

]]> By: Deb Faragher https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-2241 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:36:04 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-2241 Hi, Dan. What a wonderful endeavor requiring so much work on your part. I was referred to you by Vincent DeMarro. I am interested in tracking down any recordings done of The Hallelujah Chorus, a joint concert with the Valley Forge Military Academy Chorus and the Ellis School performed at the Valley Forge Chapel. I am not certain of the number–it may only be one. I know there was one in1963 but thought there might have been one in 1965. (I graduated in 1965 from Ellis.) Do your sources go back further than what you show? I so appreciate your effort and look forward to hearing from you.

]]> By: Sam Cook https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-1075 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 05:46:54 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-1075 Not a VF alum, but spent six years in a military school band (Oak Ridge in NC). Attended MSBF five years in a row, and I can remember the excellence of the VFMA & College bandsmen. Danny Jaynes was the director then, and he seemed to be a pretty serious fellow! I still play today (sax) in community bands. Sadly my Alma mater (ORMA) has fallen down with enrollment, which of course influences the number of cadets who could actually play. So, no band to take the field anymore. Anyway, neat site and great way to remember the VFMA band experiences you VF alums had.

]]> By: Dan Wolfe https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-940 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:11:33 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-940 Hey Bill! Nice to see you online! Enjoy the site. I still have quite a few things to add, but there’s still plenty to keep you busy.

Enjoy!

Dan

]]> By: Bill Leslie '73 & '75JC https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-938 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:32:11 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-938 Dan – I was made aware of this site over the reunion weekend Oct 2017. Thanks very much for doing this. It is very much appreciated. We weren’t half bad. It gives me the chance to share the music with my Mom which she really loves.

]]> By: Dan Wolfe https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-478 Sun, 29 May 2016 22:18:34 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-478 In reply to Jeffrey Bunnell.

Jeff, you can send them to me, if you want to. I have many of them already on the site. So if you want to send me the titles at DanWolfe.US@gmail.com, I can do a quick check and see what I’m missing.

Thanks much for the offer, sir!

Dan

]]> By: Jeffrey Bunnell https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-477 Sun, 29 May 2016 22:13:13 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-477 I have some old vinyl of the band I would like to donate to the cause. Who can I send them to? I can send you a list of titles and release dates if that would help.

]]> By: Dan Witter https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-129 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 04:14:48 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-129 Dan, this track 5, concert 3, 70-71 is a cornet-round that would be called at VF football games!! I distinctly Tim Erdman calling for it occasionally (we didn’t want to repeat too often)–Erdman, Hoffman, Detweiler?) , and the entire Corps and opposing side would go quiet when they heard the incredible sound. VF played some enormous civvy high schools in those days, and they were completely awed by the music they heard from the VF sidelines. Wonderful that it’d show up on a VF recording! Interestingly, Duke wouldn’t sit with us at football games, I suppose trusting we’d make right choices; a dangerous proposition.

]]> By: Dan Witter https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-58 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 01:00:04 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-58 Deep thanks. A superlative honor you render VF bandsmen and alum of generations from the origin.

]]> By: Greg Slick 67&69JC https://bandsir.com/about/about-bandsir-com/#comment-55 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 01:21:52 +0000 http://www.bandsir.com/?page_id=621#comment-55 Thanks!

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