Prof. Dan Hanna '47 to be Guest Conductor at Hendricks County Band Festival

January 24, 1957

January 24, 1957, Greencastle, Ind. - "Dan Hanna, director of bands at DePauw University, will be guest conductor for the annual Hendricks County Band Festival, to be held Monday evening, February 4, at Bosstick Gymnasium," reports the Danville Gazette. "Participating in this year's festival are students from Avon, Clayton, Brownsburg, Amo, North Salem, Lizton, New Winchester, Stilesville and Pittsboro."

The newspaper adds that the event will feature a tribute to the late Henry Fillmore, "one of America's great band composers, who recently died."

Any profits from the event will be used to expand the county music program.

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