Iowa Almanac
Iowa Almanac -- Monday, November 18, 2024
Strike up the band! More from the Iowa Allman Act in a moment! For 30 years, Duane, Ellen and Floppy delighted young people on TV and at the Iowa State Fair. Now relive those great times with the Duane and Floppy Collection. Our featured DVD this week at TotallyIowa.com is Volume 1, including the Duane and Floppy story. Their greatest moments together and the special Floppy's Christmas Adventure program. Get your copy of Volume 1 of the Duane and Floppy Collection today at TotallyIowa.com. Charlie Barnhouse was a talented musician. He taught himself to play the Cornette and became a conductor and composer. By the late 1880s, he decided he would leave his home in West Virginia and see where his musical talents would take him. He wound up leading town bands in both Mount Pleasant and Burlington. Along the way, he started a music publishing company in 1886, with the first selection being the Battle of Shiloh March. In December 1890, he made his final move, settling in Oskaloosa. His C.L. Barnhouse Company soon became prominent in the bandworld, thanks to his works, as well as those by Carl L. King, Fred Jewell and Russell Alexander. When Charlie died on November 18, 1929, his son C.L. Barnhouse Jr., better known as Lloyd, led the company into a new era at the start of the school band movement. During World War II, the Barnhouse Company became a major supplier of music for military bands as well. The third generation of the family assumed management of the company in 1957 and the fourth generation took over in 1979. The C.L. Barnhouse Company is unique for preserving a nearly complete archive of all publications dating back to 1886. As a result, virtually no Barnhouse publication is out of print. The founder of a new type of company more than a century ago that continues to thrive today. C.L. Barnhouse died on this date in 1929, and that's Iowa Almanac for November 18. There's more online at IowaAlmanac.com. Until tomorrow, I'm Jeff Stein.