Miss Trombone Fillmore, Henry

Miss Trombone
by: Henry Fillmore

Original Copyright: 1908

By: Fillmore Music House

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 Henry Fillmore
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DOB: December 3 , 1881 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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DOD: December 7 , 1956 (Miami, Florida)

Henry Fillmore was one of our most prolific composers with 256
compositions to his record and almost 800 arrangements. He published
under various pseudonyms as well as his own name: Henry Fillmore -
114; Gus Beans – 2; Harold Bennett – 65; Ray Hall – 3; Harry Hartley –
6; Al Hayes – 57; Will Huff – 8; and Henrietta Moore – 1.
According to Herb Block, Henry got into a conflict with his father (who
composed and published liturgical music in Cincinnati) over the kind of
music that Henry was composing. Henry liked march music and said, “I
will huff and puff and I will write my own music.” Hence, the name Will
Huff.
Fillmore was a true free spirit. He was brought up by a conservative family in a conservative town.
When he couldn’t do as he wished, he ran away with a circus and played trombone in the circus band.
To top it all off, he married an exotic dancer.

Miss Trombone (characteristic). The characteristic (or trombone smear) was published in 1908 by
The Fillmore Brothers Company (Cincinnati, Ohio). The subtitle was “A Slippery Rag.”

Fillmore wrote 15 characteristics, or trombone smears, over a period of 21 years. All were ragtime
pieces reflecting the minstrel show idiom of vaudeville and all were deeply in the ragtime style.

Fillmore was often called the “Father of the Trombone Smear.”

Sources

Picture: http://www.bothaonline.com/images/henry_fillmore.jpg

Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fillmore
http://www.gabbf.com/weird.html

Output:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fillmore
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/F/HenryFillmore.html

Program note researched by Marcus L. Neiman, Medina, Ohio

Additional information on either the composer or composition would be welcomed.

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