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Article: And the band played on ...
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
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- August 13, 2006
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New history follows New Holland Band for 150 years
Jo-Ann Greene
Writing a new history of the New Holland Band, William H. Rehrig
delicately refers to certain periods in its past as "interludes."
He's not talking about musical interludes. These were silent
interludes, when the members disbanded and their instruments sat
idle.
"Any other town, that first termination would have been the death
knell of the band,'' Rehrig said by phone from his home in Joppa, Md.
Lancaster County, which had about 100 town bands in the 1870s, has
only a couple remaining, he pointed out.
Happily, though, the New Holland Band kept coming back for
"encores."
What started out ...