Greeting to Bangor

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Greeting to Bangor
March

R. B. Hall
edited by Allen Graffam

Robert Browning Hall was born in 1858 at Abbagadassett Point in Bowdoinham, Maine and died in Portland, Maine in 1907. During his short life, he enjoyed great popularity as a composer, conductor and performer. He published over one hundred marches, as well as light operas, waltzes and songs, and became known as “The New England March King.” Mr. Hall, who lived his entire life in Maine with the exception of one year when he was leading the Tenth Regiment Band in Albany, New York, was also a cornet virtuoso. He took his first lessons from his father, Nathaniel W. Hall, a renowned E flat cornet and keyed bugle player. Those who heard him in his prime said that his tone was sweet, his tonguing sharp and his execution peerless.
R. B. Hall was an active soloist and conductor of bands throughout New England and New York. He was also an excellent craftsman making half models of several sailing and rowing boats and building boats of his own design.