American Music Festival opening concert, 1947-04-25

American Music Festival week opening concert (1st of 5), Bovard Auditorium, University Avenue [later 3551 Trousdale Parkway], University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1947 April 25, 8:30 p.m. Broadcast, KUSC, Southern California Network. University of Southern California Trojan Band [i.e. Concert Band]; William H. Gould, conductor; John Check, trumpet; John Dutton, trumpet; George Hyde, horn; Scott McKinnen, trombone; Jack Coleman, baritone horn; Ernest Kanitz, conductor; William Teaford, piano. ❧ CONTENTS: Stars and stripes forever (band) / John Philip Sousa -- Wasatchia, suite for band / Clair Whitney Johnson -- Two movements, from Music for brass instruments / Ingolf Dahl -- Caribbean fantasy (band) / John J. Morrisey -- Serenade (piano, wind and percussion instruments) / Ernest Kanitz -- Rhapsody in blue (arranged for band) / George Gershwin -- public service announcement regarding "The perplexing problems of peace". Announced in "Concert opens Music Festival" Daily Trojan (1947 April 24: p. 1. See http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll104/id/63487