Patrick Conway and His Famous Band

This is an American dream story rarely encountered! Patrick Conways lifespan and the golden era of the professional band in America literally coincided. This book tells how Conway became one of the luminaries of the professionalband era; as famousin his day as John Philip Sousa. Within Conways story we see how his professional band developed after the Civil War, how the instrumentation of the American wind band evolved, how band musicians learned theircraft and made a living, and how bandsfunctioned in the social fabric of the American culture.