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1937 The Ranger Annual
Northwestern State Teachers' College

The College Band

The NSTC Ranger Band is famous in Oklahoma and neighboring states for its repertoire in concert and brilliant marching.

The organization is under the direction of William F. Deusinger, one of the outstanding musical instructors and concert artists in America. previous to his egagement at Northwestern this year, Mr. Deusinger has directed bands and orchestras at Ohio Wesleyan University, Oklahoma Baptist University, and Quachita College. Mr. Deusinger is a violinist of note who has concertized in many sections of the United States. His study was at the NEC of Musc, Boston, Massachusetts, and with noted teachers in Paris and New York City.

The Northwestern Ranger Band is one of the best equipped bands in the country. There are approximately one hundred uniforms for winter and summer dress. The College owns upwards of sixty-five instrumetns for the marching and symphonic bands. New band instruments such as sousaphone, alto and bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, tympani, and drums have been purchased to augment an already large group of college insturments. The music library contains works of the best masters and is constantly being enlraged by the addition of important modern compositions. The fine auditorium, Herod Hall, is utilized for rehearsals and concerts.

The Northwestern Ranger Band offers NSTC students a great opportunity for the appreciation study and enjoyment of many types of good music. Membership is on a competitive basis, and ample opportunity for preparatory training is afforded through study in the brass, woodwind and percussion classes which are available to all interested students without cost. Northwestern band graduates occupy good positions in Oklahoma Schools at present. It is the aim of the Department of Insturmental Music to thoroughly prepare and place other graduating students in positions as band and orchestra directors and teachers of theoretic music. Northwestern Band members have an unusually fine opportunity for practical experience and training through the privilege of working with the Northwestern High School Band, as conductors and teachers of the various brass, woodwind and percussion instruments.

This well-known band played at the Texas Centennial Fair at Dallas last summer. it participates annually in teh Wichita Santa Claus Parade and has travelled approximately two thousand miles so far this year filling request engagements fro many and varied occasions. The Northwestern Ranger Band is now in preparation for a concert tour reaching through northwest Oklahoma and southwest Texas. The Band will travel a distance of approximately fifteen hundred miles.

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