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This
was a fun interview! Jari
Villanueva is the director
of the Federal City Brass Band/ 26th North Carolina Regimental
Band. He was kind enough to send me two of their CDs last year for
use in our narrative episodes. We’d been trying to coordinate our
schedules for about two months now for this interview and finally
made it happen. I thought it would be fun to go through the songs I
chose for the narratives and, first, explain my thinking behind the
choice from an artistic standpoint and then follow it up with Jari
giving a history of the song. Turns out, I unwittingly chose songs
that were more appropriate than I was aware of, in some
cases.
Jari
is also “instrumental” in the popular and moving “100 Nights of
Taps” here at Gettysburg National Cemetery.