Aug
8
Vintage Band Festival 2013 – Cornets, Community and Contentment
Northfield’s motto is Cows, Colleges and Contentment, but during the Vintage Band Festival 2013 last weekend, Cornets, Community and Contentment felt like a more appropriate description.
My great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs, performed as a cornet soloist from the 1890s through the early 1920s, so it’s probably no surprise that I was particularly drawn to performances that featured that lovely, mellow instrument. Here are a few sights and sounds from the festival that involved cornets:
• Elisa Koehler, with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, performs a solo during an Aug. 1 concert in Way Park. I would have recorded more of it, but my camera was running out of juice!
• Mark Ponzo, a professor of trumpet at Northern Illinois University, performs on the cornet Aug.
My great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs, performed as a cornet soloist from the 1890s through the early 1920s, so it’s probably no surprise that I was particularly drawn to performances that featured that lovely, mellow instrument. Here are a few sights and sounds from the festival that involved cornets:
• Elisa Koehler, with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, performs a solo during an Aug. 1 concert in Way Park. I would have recorded more of it, but my camera was running out of juice!
• Mark Ponzo, a professor of trumpet at Northern Illinois University, performs on the cornet Aug.
