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Here is a citation for the early instrumentation I mentioned.

INSTRUMENTATION AND THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BAND CONTEST

In the United States, instrumentation was particularly inconsistent in early school bands. After the initial National School Band Contest in 1923, discussion ensued during subsequent years to address this problem so as to provide a working standard for all band programs interested in entering the contest. In 1927 the School Band Contests booklet listed the following acceptable instrumentation for a 68-piece band:

2 flutes or 4 piccolos
   (interchangeable)
2 E-flat clarinets
2 oboes
1 English horn
24 B-flat clarinets
2 alto clarinets
1 bass clarinet
2 alto saxophones
   (or 1 sop., 1 alto)
1 tenor saxophone
1 baritone saxophone  
1 bass saxophone
2 bassoons 		2 B-flat cornets
2 B-flat trumpets
2 B-flat fluegelhorns
4 French horns
3 trombones
2 baritones
2 E-flat tubas
2 B-flat tubas
timpani
drums 

Charter members of American Bandmasters Association: Edwin Franko Goldman; Charles Benter, J. J. Gagnier, Victor J. Grabel, Albert Austin Harding, Richard B. Hayward, Charles O’Neill, Arthur Pryor and Frank Simon.

PWE Spring Concert Program

PWE – Spring Concert
Landscapes                                                                            Rossano Galante
Incantation and Dance                                                         John Barnes Chance
English Folk Song Suite                                                        Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Cowboys                                                                         John Williams
                                                                                                Arr. James Curnow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7-0hX4C-gI
Intermission
Resplendent Glory                                                                Rossano Galante
Arabesque                                                                             Samuel R. Hazo
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss                                             David R. Holsinger
Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew                                       James Curnow
                                                

Hi All,
  Several people have asked me what we will be rehearsing this week so that they can prepare.  Hence, this blog.  I’ll use it to communicate with the members of the PWE to prepare for and review rehearsals.
  This is intended as a private Blog for PWE members only.  This should allow us to have some real time communication.  As other topics come up that would be useful or interesting to the band, we can include other discussion threads.

Ken

P.S.  I’m new to Blogger and will take all the help offered.