I had planned to do some work this morning on my book project, picking up from where I left off yesterday, writing about the spring of 1925. That’s when G. Oliver’s St. Cloud Municipal Boys’ Band was preparing to make a splash at the International Kiwanis Convention in St. Paul.

I somehow got diverted. Ah, procrastination. But like many of my diversions, it was still related to G. Oliver. I got it in my head that now was a good time to create a separate Facebook page for the My Musical Family blog. So that’s how I spent my writing time this morning. Instead of new paragraphs about 1925, I have a new page.

My hope is that the new MMF page will make it easier for people to follow the blog and also will allow me to do some fun things, like post related picture albums.

What do you get a vintage bandmaster on his 142nd birthday?

It sounds like the opening line of a joke, but it’s really just a rhetorical question. Because I don’t know what my great-grandfather G. Oliver’s favorite kind of cake was, I went to CakeWalk in Northfield today and brought home a delicious-looking fruit tart.

An unexpected development has both slowed and advanced my progress this month in writing the book about G. Oliver Riggs and the St. Cloud Municipal Band: I found a delightful, 98-year-old source of information!

While studying a list of members of the first boys’ band G. Oliver organized in St. Cloud in 1923, I noticed the name Theodore Papermaster. Cool name! I thought, and filed it away in my brain. An hour later, I was looking at a newspaper article about a piano recital given by G.
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It’s Give to the Max Day in Minnesota, which means it’s a great day to consider giving to any number of worthy nonprofit organizations throughout the state. Of course, you can donate to these groups any day of the year. But there’s something fun about a day dedicated to giving, and in many cases, depending on the organization, a gift given today will be matched.

Arts and cultural organizations rate high on the list of our family’s donations.

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the St. Cloud Municipal Band’s 125th anniversary concert with my parents.

The 57-member band sounded fantastic as it led the audience back in time, decade by decade, with songs that evoked the band’s 125-year history. Four guest former conductors – Dave Haedt, Mel Hauck, Marv Pearson and Lowell Larson – took turns directing 14 pieces.
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