The U.S. Army Ground Forces Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. March 26 in Hodgson Hall. Tickets are required for admission but they are available at no charge from the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400).
The band will be conducted by 2nd Lt. Derrick N. Shaw, an Atlanta native who also serves as the executive officer of the band. He is a 1973 graduate of UGA with a bachelor’s degree in music education. He holds a master’s degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His primary conducting teachers were Thomas Dvorak, Dwight Satterwhite and Albert Ligotti, and he studied tuba with the late David Randolph.
Shaw says he is looking forward to returning to Athens, where he will share the conducting podium with his former professor, Dwight Satterwhite, from UGA’s School of Music.
The Army Ground Forces Band was organized as the 4th Infantry Regiment Band in 1845. During the battle of Monterrey, Mexico, in 1846, the band captured and turned an artillery battery against the enemy. To commemorate this distinguished and unmusical service, President Zachary Taylor authorized the band to wear red piping on the uniform, making it the only Army band to receive a combat distinction from the president of the United States.
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