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52-526: MMB may refer to: Music [ edit ] Michigan Marching Band , of the University of Michigan The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , a band from Boston Computing, science, and technology [ edit ] MMB (cipher) , a block cipher in cryptography 3-Mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol , a chemical found in some wines Minimal metabolic behaviors , for modeling metabolic networks Middle mouse button,

104-471: A button on the computer mouse Other uses [ edit ] Maharashtra Maritime Board Maritime Museum of Barcelona Memanbetsu Airport , an airport at Hokkaidō, Japan ( IATA airport code : MMB) Milk Marketing Board , a former British government quango Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MMB . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

156-631: A replica of Point du Sable's cabin was presented as part of the "background of the history of Chicago". Also on display was the "Lincoln Group" of reconstructions of buildings associated with the biography of Abraham Lincoln, including his birth cabin, the Lincoln-Berry General Store , the Chicago Wigwam (in reduced scale), and the Rutledge Tavern which served as a restaurant. Admiral Byrd's polar expedition ship

208-634: A reunion which resulted in the formation of the University of Michigan Band Alumni Association. In 1953, the Alumni Band began to join the regular band playing and marching at the Homecoming pre-game and halftime shows. George R. Cavender was appointed as Assistant Director of Bands for the University of Michigan in 1952. The band was featured on a color broadcast of the " Today Show " with host Dave Garroway in October 1955. The MMB performed in

260-410: A series of astronomical observatories and then transformed into electrical energy which was transmitted to Chicago. The fair buildings were multi-colored, to create a "Rainbow City" as compared to the "White City" of Chicago's earlier World's Columbian Exposition . The buildings generally followed Moderne architecture in contrast to the neoclassical themes used at the 1893 fair. One famous feature of

312-523: A total of 39,052,236. Much of the fair site is now home to Northerly Island park (since the closing of Meigs Field ) and McCormick Place . The Balbo Monument , given to Chicago by Benito Mussolini to honor General Italo Balbo 's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight, still stands near Soldier Field . The city added a third red star to its flag in 1933 to commemorate the Century of Progress Exposition (the Fair

364-469: A variation on the vertical (i.e., paternoster lift ) parking garage—all the cars were new Nashes; Lincoln presented its rear-engined "concept car" precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr , which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline "Suddenly it's 1940!" But it was Packard which won the best of show with

416-628: Is Your Land; and John Philip Sousa 's Stars & Stripes Forever. Century of Progress A Century of Progress International Exposition , also known as the Chicago World's Fair , was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago , Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. Designed largely in Art Deco style,

468-455: Is now on exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry . Frank Buck furnished a wild animal exhibit, Frank Buck's Jungle Camp. Over two million people visited Buck's reproduction of the camp he and his native assistants lived in while collecting animals in Asia. After the fair closed, Buck moved the camp to a compound he had created at Amityville, New York . Planning for the design of

520-418: Is now represented by the fourth of four stars on the flag). In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated a statue of Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus . It was placed at the south end of Grant Park, near the site of the fair. The Polish Museum of America possesses the painting of Pulaski at Savannah by Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski , which

572-505: The City of New York was visited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he came to the fair on October 2, 1933. The City was on show for the full length of the exhibition. One of the highlights of the 1933 World's Fair was the arrival of the German airship Graf Zeppelin on October 26, 1933. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander Hugo Eckener landed

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624-578: The 1981 , 1983 , 1987 , and 1989 Rose Bowl games. Dr. Gary Lewis became Director of the MMB in 1990. On November 20, 1992, the MMB appeared as musical guests on the ABC television variety show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee . Jeff Grogan directed the band for the 1995 season. Dr. Kevin Sedatole was appointed as Director of the MMB in 1996, with Grogan remaining as Assistant Director. Dr. James Tapia

676-514: The Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago in October 1933. On August 26, 1935, while Bernard Hirsch was serving as Acting Conductor during Nicholas Falcone's medical leave due to hearing loss, the university offered Falcone's position to William D. Revelli , who accepted. By 1942, the band had been "voted 'All-American Band' by the nation's sportswriters" for two consecutive years. The band

728-768: The coronavirus pandemic . On September 11, 2021, for the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the Michigan Marching Band performed a tribute show entitled "We Remember," in conjunction with Durant Design. The show featured selections from John Williams ' Summon the Heroes; West Side Story 's Mambo; Billy Joel 's New York State of Mind; Jay-Z and Alicia Keys ' Empire State of Mind; Hamilton 's Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story; Woody Guthrie 's This Land

780-631: The "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash". To cap its record-breaking speed run, the Zephyr arrived dramatically on-stage at the fair's "Wings of a Century" transportation pageant. The two trains launched an era of industrial streamlining. Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the City of Salina , and the Burlington Zephyr as the first Pioneer Zephyr . The Zephyr

832-607: The 776-foot airship at the nearby Curtiss-Wright Airport in Glenview . It remained on the ground for twenty-five minutes (from 1 to 1:25 pm) then took off ahead of an approaching weather front, bound for Akron, Ohio . The "dream cars" which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Rollston bodywork on a Duesenberg chassis, and was called the Twenty Grand ultra-luxury sedan; Cadillac 's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash 's exhibit had

884-588: The Belgian Village (Burnham Brothers with Alfons De Rijdt), and the Streets of Paris (Andrew Rebori and John W. Root) where fan dancer Sally Rand performed. These buildings were constructed out of five-ply Douglas fir plywood, ribbed-metal siding, and prefabricated boards such as Masonite, Sheetrock, Maizewood, as well as other new man-made materials. The exhibited buildings were windowless (but cheerfully lighted) buildings. Structural advances also filled

936-843: The Century of Progress fair in Chicago. The major archive for the Century of Progress International Exposition, including the official records from the event and the papers of Lenox Lohr, general manager of the fair, are housed in Special Collections at the University of Illinois, Chicago . A collection of materials including images is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago . The Century of Progress Collection includes photographs, guidebooks, brochures, maps, architectural drawings , and souvenir items. Specific collections with material include

988-463: The Chief ," " The Yellow and Blue ," and " The Victors ." Dr. Scott Boerma succeeded Nix as director of the band that same year. In 2013, Dr. John Pasquale became Director of the MMB. He replaced Dr. Scott Boerma , who announced his resignation as director following the 2013 Outback Bowl to take the position of Director of Bands at his alma mater, Western Michigan University . Dr. Andrea Brown

1040-541: The Cook Family Singers, and the Andrews Sisters performed), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history. The fair also contained exhibits that would seem shocking to modern audiences, including offensive portrayals of African Americans , a "Midget City" complete with "sixty Lilliputians ", and an exhibition of incubators containing real babies. The fair included an exhibit on

1092-479: The Exposition began over five years prior to Opening Day. According to an official resolution, decisions regarding the site layout and the architectural style of the exposition were relegated to an architectural commission, which was led by Paul Cret and Raymond Hood . Local architects on the committee included Edward Bennett , John Holabird , and Hubert Burnham. Frank Lloyd Wright was specifically left off

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1144-720: The Federal Building (Bennet, Burnham, and Holabird); corporate pavilions, including the General Motors Building (Albert Kahn) and the Sears Pavilion (Nimmons, Carr, and Wright); futuristic model houses, most popular was the twelve-sided House of Tomorrow (George Frederick Keck); as well as progressive foreign pavilions, including the Italian Pavilion (Mario de Renzi and Adalberto Libera); and historic and ethnic entertainment venues, such as

1196-558: The Federal Building for the fair. The frieze was composed of twelve murals depicting the influence of sea power on America, beginning with the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia , in 1607 when sea power first reached America and carrying through World War I. Another set of murals, painted for the Ohio State Exhibit by William Mark Young , was relocated afterwards to the Ohio Statehouse . Young also painted scenes of

1248-646: The University of Michigan between 1844 and 1859, there is no continuous link between those early groups and the organization of a 22-member university band by Harry dePont on November 13, 1896. At the start, the dePont-organized band received no financial support from the university. The band's first performance was for the Law School's observance of Washington's Birthday on February 22, 1897. University president James Burrill Angell granted dePont's request for rehearsal space in Room A of University Hall, and by 1898

1300-441: The band in the summer of 1971 and was succeeded by Cavender. Women were allowed to join the marching band starting in 1972. The MMB performed as part of the halftime show at 1973's Super Bowl VII , collaborating with Woody Herman and Andy Williams . A new facility, named Revelli Hall, was built to house the marching band. The MMB's practice field formally known as Wines Field was renamed Elbel Field. Cavender retired in 1979 and

1352-403: The band was being referred to as the "University of Michigan Band" and performed at football games. The ensemble disbanded in early 1903, but reunited that fall. Eugene J. Fischer became the band's conductor with the start of the 1906 season. During Wilfred Wilson's subsequent tenure as director, membership in the band grew to nearly 100 musicians and the university allocated permanent space for

1404-645: The band's use in Morris Hall. Nicholas Falcone was appointed as conductor in 1927. The band became an adjunct part of the university in 1929. During the Michigan–Ohio State football game in 1932, the MMB first performed a " script Ohio " formation. That field formation was subsequently embellished by the Ohio State University Marching Band , which continues to perform a similar field routine today. The band performed at

1456-549: The commission due to his inability to work well with others, but did go on to produce three conceptual schemes for the fair. Members of this committee ended up designing most of the large, thematic exhibition pavilions. From the beginning, the commission members shared a belief that the buildings should not reinterpret past architectural forms – as had been done at earlier fairs, such as Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—but should instead reflect new, modern ideas, as well as suggest future architectural developments. Because

1508-473: The entire debt paid by the time the fair closed in 1934. For the first time in American history, an international fair had paid for itself. In its two years, it had attracted 48,769,227 visitors. According to James Truslow Adams 's Dictionary of American History , during the 170 days beginning May 27, 1933, there were 22,565,859 paid admissions; during the 163 days beginning May 26, 1934, there were 16,486,377;

1560-714: The exhibition buildings. The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held at Comiskey Park (home of the Chicago White Sox ) in conjunction with the fair. In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000 , and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes, called

1612-634: The fair were the performances of fan dancer Sally Rand . Hal Pearl then known as "Chicago's Youngest Organist" and later "The King of the Organ" was the official organist of the fair. Mary Ann McArdle and her sister Isabel (from the UK) performed Irish Dancing. Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway (filled with nightclubs such as the Old Morocco, where future stars Judy Garland ,

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1664-504: The fair. There were more than a thousand cases, resulting in 98 deaths. Joel Connolly of the Chicago Bureau of Sanitary Engineering brought the outbreak to an end when he found that defective plumbing permitted sewage to contaminate drinking water in two hotels. Originally, the fair was scheduled only to run until November 12, 1933, but it was so successful that it was opened again to run from May 26 to October 31, 1934. The fair

1716-468: The fairgrounds was on new man-made land that was owned by the state and not the city, the land was initially free from Chicago's strict building codes, which allowed the architects to explore new materials and building techniques. This allowed the design and construction of a wide array of experimental buildings, that eventually included large general exhibition halls, such as the Hall of Science (Paul Cret) and

1768-477: The fairgrounds. These included the earliest catenary roof constructed in the United States, which roofed the dome of the Travel and Transport Building (Bennet, Burnham and Holabird) and the first thin shell concrete roof in the United States, on the small, multi-vaulted Brook Hill Farm Dairy built for the 1934 season of the fair. From June to November 1933, there was an outbreak of amoebic dysentery associated with

1820-402: The history of Chicago. In the planning stages, several African American groups from the city's newly growing population campaigned for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable to be honored at the fair. At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers presented the 1803 construction of Fort Dearborn as the city's historical beginning. The campaign was successful, and

1872-423: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMB&oldid=1239997757 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michigan Marching Band Though there is evidence of one or more bands formed at

1924-466: The malaise of the Great Depression , could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology". Fair visitors saw the latest wonders in rail travel, automobiles, architecture and even cigarette-smoking robots. The exposition "emphasized technology and progress, a utopia, or perfect world, founded on democracy and manufacturing." A Century of Progress

1976-538: The modernistic Federal Building. These were also printed in separate souvenir sheets as blocks of 25 (catalog listings 728–31). In 1935 the sheets were reprinted (Scott 766–67). From October 2010 through September 2011, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s . This exhibition prominently featured

2028-522: The reintroduction of the Packard Twelve . An enduring exhibit was the 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction. Marine artist Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein painted twelve murals for the Navy's exhibit in

2080-846: The so-called "Snow Bowl" game against Ohio State in late November, and later traveled by train to perform in the 1951 Rose Bowl . Starting in 1961, the Symphony Band recorded several music albums released by Vanguard Records that were credited to "University of Michigan Band." These albums documented the continued, functional specialization of the various ensembles comprising the Michigan Bands at that time. The Varsity Band played at basketball games and campus affairs. The Symphony Band performed in more traditional concert settings. The Marching Band performed at football games. The band received new uniforms, percussion equipment, and fiberglass sousaphones in 1962. The annual Band-O-Rama concert

2132-589: The television special, A Bob Hope Celebration on October 22, 1981. In 1982, the MMB performed in Super Bowl XVI and was selected as the inaugural winner of the Sudler Trophy . The MMB also performed at the final game of the 1984 World Series in Tiger Stadium and survived a mob attack in the riot that followed. In 1989, Jerry Luckhardt became the MMB's conductor. The MMB performed at

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2184-475: The theme of the fair was technological innovation , and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded. Its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride , a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other. One description of the fair noted that the world, "then still mired in

2236-697: The visit of the German airship depicting (l to r) the fair's Federal Building, the Graf Zeppelin in flight, and its home hangar in Friedrichshafen , Germany. This stamp is informally known as the Baby Zep to distinguish it from the much more valuable 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps (C13–15). Separate from this issue, for the Fair the Post Office also printed 1 and 3 cent commemorative postage stamps , showing respectively Fort Dearborn and

2288-460: Was able to continue performing during the years of World War II . The band's home was relocated to Harris Hall in 1946. Life featured the band's New York City performance in its October 30, 1950, edition that included an Alfred Eisenstadt photograph of children marching behind drum major Dick Smith. During Homecoming Weekend in November 1950, sixty-five former Michigan bandsmen attended

2340-659: Was appointed as Director of the MMB in 1999. The band performed at the 1990 Rose Bowl . In 2001, Jamie L. Nix was hired as the 13th Director of the MMB. That same year, the MMB elected Karen England as its first female Drum Major. On January 2, 2007, having performed at the Rose Bowl the previous day, the Michigan Marching Band attended the arrival of President Gerald Ford's body in Grand Rapids, Michigan . The MMB honored President Ford's funeral procession with somber performances of " Ruffles and Flourishes ," " Hail to

2392-611: Was exhibited at the Century of Progress fair and where it won first place. After the close of the fair, the painting went on display at The Art Institute of Chicago where it was unveiled by Eleanor Roosevelt on July 10, 1934. The painting was on display at the Art Institute until its purchase by the Polish Women's Alliance on the museum's behalf. The U.S. Post Office Department issued a special fifty-cent Air Mail postage stamp, ( Scott catalogue number C-18) to commemorate

2444-399: Was financed through the sale of memberships, which allowed purchases of a certain number of admissions once the park was open. More than $ 800,000 was raised in this manner as the country was in the Great Depression . A $ 10 million bond was issued on October 28, 1929, the day before the stock market crashed . By the time the fair closed in 1933, half of these notes had been retired, with

2496-450: Was first held in November 1964. The band performed its "Peace Show" at the nationally televised Michigan-Ohio State football game in 1969. The MMB also performed at the 1970 Rose Bowl following the 1969 season. In 1970, Carl Grapentine was appointed the band announcer, becoming the "Voice of the Michigan Bands" (and, since 2006, the "Voice of Michigan Stadium "). The performance block had grown to 210 members. Dr. Revelli retired from

2548-528: Was formally opened on May 27, 1933, by U.S. Postmaster General James Farley at a four-hour ceremony at Soldier Field . The fair's opening night began with a nod to the heavens. Lights were automatically activated when the rays of the star Arcturus were detected. The star was chosen as its light had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago world's fair—the World's Columbian Exposition —in 1893. The rays were focused on photoelectric cells in

2600-481: Was hired as the band's Associate Director, becoming the first female Associate Director at the University of Michigan . In 2015, the band collaborated with conductor Alan Gilbert and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic for a halftime performance consisting of 1,000 performers. The Michigan Marching Band announced an entirely virtual season for the 2020-2021 academic year in response to

2652-533: Was organized as an Illinois nonprofit corporation in January 1928 for the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. City officials designated three and a half miles of newly reclaimed land along the shore of Lake Michigan between 12th and 39th streets on the Near South Side for the fairgrounds. Held on a 427 acres (1.73 km ) portion of Burnham Park , the $ 37,500,000 exposition

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2704-521: Was succeeded by Glenn Richter. The MMB performed at the 1972 , 1977 , 1978 , and 1979 Rose Bowl games, as well as at the 1976 Orange Bowl game. The 1978 Rose Bowl performance featured the first public performance of the John Williams ' musical score to the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind . Eric Becher succeeded Richter as the MMB's conductor in 1980. The band appeared on

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