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History of the Classic City Band

Sometimes we realize only later that we were the history.
The Parthenon, 1911 AD, after 2,343 hard years.

Historical memorabilia of the Classic City Band is housed in a permanent collection at the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter Street, Athens, GA 30606.

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Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
July 18, 1976
Nov. 21, 1976
Feb. 13, 1977
May 1, 1977
Jul. 4, 1977
Jul. 17, 1977
Nov. 13, 1977
Apr. 30, 1978
May 7, 1978
May 31, 1978
Jul. 4, 1978
Jul. 23, 1978

Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
Oct. 29, 1978
Feb. 11, 1979
May 27, 1979
Jul. 4, 1979
Jul. 22, 1979
Feb. 10, 1980
Oct. 20, 1983
Mar. 15, 1985

Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
Mar. 20, 1986
Mar. 31, 1987
Dec. 6, 1987
Apr. 18, 1989
Apr. 10, 1990

Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
Apr. 9, 1991
Mar. 10, 1992
Mar. 16, 1993
Mar. 8, 1994
Apr. 9, 1995
Mar. 24, 1996
Apr. 13, 1997
May 9, 1999

Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
May 14, 2000
Nov. 7, 2000
Dec. 5, 2000
Dec. 10, 2000
May 13, 2001
Nov. 4, 2001
Dec. 2, 2001
Mar. 3, 2002

Concerts
dateprogram coverprogrampersonnelnotes
Mar. 21, 2004
May 9, 2004

Although it may be true that history is written by the victors, it is also written by historians who assemble it from remnants and ruins of the cultures. I request anyone with information or materials that could help enhance our Classic City Band history to share with our website, and, when the appropriate time comes, to donate the memorabilia to the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library.

This history page uses a variation of our previous classic Greek leitmotif; now the story of the ruin of the Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles:
The Parthenon had poorly survived the centuries since it's construction. It had been damaged in war, at the hands of religious sponsorship, and by looting, recycling, vandals, souvenir-hunters and the corrosive effects of the environment. After obtaining permission from the ruling Ottoman Turk Sultan, British ambassador Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, had removed about half of the surviving sculpture between 1801 and 1812, and eventually sold it [at a loss] to the British Government. It is now displayed in the British Museum, despite calls for it's return to Greece. In 2007 AD, Greece finally started to move sculptures at the Parthenon site into a museum to protect them from further environmental degradation. Plaster casts, taken of those marble sculptures that Bruce did not have removed from the Parthenon, now show much more detail than the actual sculpture left at the site after only 200 additional years of exposure to the environment around Athens, Greece. see more of the story

    Classic City Band history material courtesy of:
  • The Heritage Room, Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens, GA
  • Jill Read
  • Jim Heyl

    And the flame still burns ...

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