The Red and Black March
R.E. Haughey
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Program Note
While Glory, Glory to Old Georgia is universally recognised as the University of Georgia’s fight song, the popular athletic anthem was not the university’s first school song…that title goes to The Red and Black March, composed in 1908 by R.E. Haughey, the director of the first marching band at the University. Sometime before World War II, the march was lost and forgotten. For many years, the only mention of The Red and Black March was in a 1962 interview of Haughey for a history of the Redcoat Marching Band which mentions the march as “Georgia’s first original school song” and noted that the work had been lost.
Incredibly, a copy - perhaps the only one in existence - was found on eBay in 2007 by Lloyd Winstead, associate director of the University's Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts and former Redcoat Band member, 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 original 4-page piano score resides on UGA’s campus at the Hargrett Library for rare and historic documents. In 2008, the march was orchestrated and edited for wind ensemble by Nikk Pilato, while serving on faculty at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. In addition to orchestrating the melodies and harmonies, references to other school songs were added to the march, 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
Incredibly, a copy - perhaps the only one in existence - was found on eBay in 2007 by Lloyd Winstead, associate director of the University's Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts and former Redcoat Band member, 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 original 4-page piano score resides on UGA’s campus at the Hargrett Library for rare and historic documents. In 2008, the march was orchestrated and edited for wind ensemble by Nikk Pilato, while serving on faculty at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. In addition to orchestrating the melodies and harmonies, references to other school songs were added to the march, 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