Henry Fillmore

No, he's not the man that the Fillmore auditoriums were named after, but if it was up to the brass and marching band musicians of the world, he would have been. Henry Fillmore's career spanned half a century and he seems to set the record for writing and arranging band music. It isn't a matter of quantity over quality either, since his compositions have become warhorse numbers for marching bands and big bands alike. Like a darts player who tosses a whole fistful of the little arrows at the target hoping to hit one bull's eye, Fillmore kept up a steady stream of new band music ...