Brian Coffill

Cubs on Parade (1907) H. R. Hempel (1872-1925), arranged Joseph Techen (1907), transcribed by Brian Coffill (2015) Born in Germany to a family of industrialists, the young Hans Hempel immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty, traveling through New York’s Ellis Island in 1892. While his father owned a factory, Hempel’s cousin was the celebrated soprano Frieda Hempel, internationally known for her operatic and concert careers in both Europe and the United States. Ha

The band program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long been associated with performances at athletic events, dating back many years before the creation of separate bands for concert and marching purposes. There are records of the band performing at numerous festive university occasions including parades, convocations, battalion exhibitions, and gymnasium/calisthenic class demonstrations as early as the 1870s.[1] In the 1890s, there are many mentions of th