Brian Coffill

After receiving a text message from a close friend and conductor colleague (as well as baseball fanatic and epic-stadium-tour compatriot,...

John Philip Sousa, the American "March King," was also a baseball fanatic, often taking the mound to pitch against local ballplayers,...

Baseball at the turn of the twentieth century featured a wide variety of characters, both on and off the field, that shaped the game for...

As part of a Masters Thesis dissertation project at the University of Illinois, I undertook a historical investigation, and eventual...

Cubs on Parade (1907) H. R. Hempel (1872-1925), arranged Joseph Techen (1907), transcribed by Brian Coffill (2015) Born in Germany to a...

The band program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long been associated with performances at athletic events, dating...