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Arthur Pryor
Pryor's Band


Arthur Pryor was a composer as a featured trombone soloist with Sousa’s band. By 1909 he had formed his own band and was doing the tour circuit. He also wrote marches and concert compositions.

The 1909 Willow Grove Park Promotional Booklet states:
"Arthur Pryor is America's youngest and most brilliant bandmaster. He typifies that originality in native band music which makes him a national character, and his return to Willow Grove Park this season marks an event in the realm of Music . Mr. Pryor, during the past winter, has devoted his time almost exclusively to the composition of new music. He has several new and stirring marches, ballads, waltzes and dances, which will be heard for the first time during his engagement in the park. Mr. Pryor will also be heard in many solos on the trombone, an instrument he excels at, and on which he has delighted hundreds of thousands of people, both in this country and abroad."

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