Copy+Pasted excerpts direct from wikipedia: Henry Fillmore (3 December 1881 – 7 December 1956) was an American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader, best-known for his many marches and screamers. In his youth, he mastered piano, guitar, violin, and flute, as well as the slide trombone, which at first he played in secret, as his conservative religious father believed it an uncouth and sinful instrument. Fillmore entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 1901. In the 1920s, he was back in Cincinnati, directing the Shriners Temple Band, which he turned into one of the best marching bands in the country. In 1938, Fillmore retired to Miami, Florida, but kept active in his later years organizing and rehearsing high school bands in Florida. Henry Fillmore Band Hall, the rehearsal hall for many of the University of Miami's performing groups, including the Band of the Hour, stands today as a tribute to Fillmore's work in the band genre. There, he wrote his final piece, "President's March". Fillmore lived out the rest of his days in South Florida. Henry Fillmore wrote under a series of different names such as Harold Bennett, Ray Hall, Harry Hartley, Al Hayes, and the funniest, Henrietta Moore. A prolific composer, Fillmore wrote over 250 tunes and arranged orchestrations for hundreds more. For more information and the full article see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fillmore I take no credit for any of the above. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.