The Red and Black March
R.E. Haughey
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Program Note
While Glory, Glory to Old Georgia is recognised as the University of Georgia’s fight song, the popular anthem is not the first fight song in the school’s history. R.E. Haughey, director of the first marching band at the University, composed The Red and Black March in 1908. Unfortunately, the march was lost sometime before World War II, and the only mention of it for many years was a passing reference in an interview with Haughey, who said that he didn’t have any more copies and all existing copies that he knew of were lost.
However, a copy –perhaps the only in existence- was found on eBay in 2007 by Lloyd Winstead, associate director of the University's Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts, while searching for old college songbooks for a dissertation. The seller, a woman who owned a music store in North Dakota, was unsure of how she acquired the music but mentioned she might have purchased it while on a trip to the South.
The march was originally written for piano, and was orchestrated and edited for winds by Nikk Pilato, while serving as Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. In addition to orchestrating the melodies and harmonies, references to other important school songs were also added, such as the second repetition of the first strain (the UGA Alma Mater) and the obbligato (Glory, Glory to Old Georgia) featured in the final strain.
However, a copy –perhaps the only in existence- was found on eBay in 2007 by Lloyd Winstead, associate director of the University's Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts, while searching for old college songbooks for a dissertation. The seller, a woman who owned a music store in North Dakota, was unsure of how she acquired the music but mentioned she might have purchased it while on a trip to the South.
The march was originally written for piano, and was orchestrated and edited for winds by Nikk Pilato, while serving as Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. In addition to orchestrating the melodies and harmonies, references to other important school songs were also added, such as the second repetition of the first strain (the UGA Alma Mater) and the obbligato (Glory, Glory to Old Georgia) featured in the final strain.