Interview: Fred & Earl Sturtze 5/4/1972
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| Topic | Start |
|---|---|
| Introductions | 0:00 |
| Bill Gallagher on his troubles learning Huntington | 0:49 |
| Fred and Earl's first instructors and first corps | 2:01 |
| Local Ancient corps in the early 1900s | 7:21 |
| The Lancraft and Foot Guards years | 9:27 |
| Fred's influential fifers | 10:18 |
| Fred's competition years | 12:00 |
| Earl competing against George Gallagher, Dan English, Frank Fancher, and J Burns Moore | 12:53 |
| Common competition fife tunes | 16:54 |
| Memories of Ted Kurtz. Fife designs | 19:24 |
| Memories of the Worcester Continentals | 22:00 |
| Frank Fancher. The development of Earl's method. Working on the streetcars in Buffalo. Early teaching experiences | 23:36 |
| Fred discusses his collection of fifes. Learning fife code | 29:00 |
| Earl's old corps in Buffalo | 31:08 |
| Earl's fondest students | 33:20 |
| Bob Van Deck, American Legion | 34:26 |
| Flute & Drum and Piccolo & Drum competition classes. Other ensembles. "Kilty" (pipe) bands | 37:04 |
| New Jersey drummers | 39:45 |
| Regional styles of fifing | 41:10 |
| Southwestern CT corps and players | 42:26 |
| Side Break | 47:10 |
| The NY Regimentals. Popularity of "Turkey in the Straw" and "Arkansas Traveler" | 47:38 |
| Teaching in the schools | 50:23 |
| Earl's evaluation of M&M Corps. Decline of rudimental drumming.Vince Mott. "Marching Orchestra" | 53:40 |
| Impressions of The Old Guard | 57:41 |
| Playing "Hanover Hornpipe" | 01:01:11 |
| Playing "Miss McLeod's Reel" | 01:03:38 |
| Earl judging competitions in pre-WWII New York. Discussion of NY corps and players | 01:05:11 |
| Frank Martin and Ed Lemley. Reintroducing rudimental drumming in NY | 01:11:23 |
| Ed Classey (Jnr) | 01:13:34 |
| Playing "The Whipple" | 01:15:12 |
| Earl's difficulty teaching Matty Lyons. Les Parks and Bob Ward (Ablondi) in competition | 01:22:30 |
| The Strube and Sturtze systems. The Sturtze Book. Correspondence with Alfons Grieder. Pitching a trip to Switzerland | 01:29:27 |
Archival Notes
Date: 5/4/1972
Interviewed by Ed Olsen with Bill Gallagher, Bill Orkney, Mrs. (Fred) Sturtze, Mr. Ludwig
Tape #242
File Length 94 min.