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November 21, 2001  Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University's director of bands, Dr. John C. Carmichael, ha He is the first band director at WKU to receive the distinction and is only the second band conductor in the history of Kentucky to be so recognized. The ABA was started in 1929 by a Louisville native, Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman. Its goals include honoring outstanding achievement, working for progress toward an international band instrumentation, encouraging prominent composers of all countries to write for the concert band and enhancing the concert band and its music. John Philip Sousa was the first honorary life president. Other notable members include: A.A. Harding, Arthur Pryor, Herbert L. Clarke, Merle Evans, Henry Fillmore, William D. Revelli, John Paynter, Col. Arnald Gabriel, H. Robert Reynolds, James Croft, Jerry Junkin and Allan McMurray. Dr. Carmichael has also been asked to conduct the University of Kansas Symphonic Band at the ABA National Convention at Wichita State University in February 2002. He will be on a program that includes Frederick Fennell, founder of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and current conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Ensemble; Col. John Bourgeois, former conductor of the United State Marine Corps Band known as the "President's Own;" and James Barnes, internationally known composer. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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s been elected to the American Bandmasters Association, the highest professional honor that can be received by any band director. 
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