Music Background on Baritone Horn & Euphonium


MY FATHER, EVERETT T. LARRY,
played sousaphone in the Cushing High School Band, Oklahoma.
This photo was taken around 1940.
He encouraged me to take up the baritone horn when I entered the third grade.

MESA EAST JR HIGH SCHOOL BAND, 1959-1962
Hey, it gets lonely in the back row.

WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR BAND, 1962-1965
This is when I used to carry a comb in my pocket

ASU SUN DEVIL BAND, 1965-1967

MESA CITY BAND, 1968-1991


Rehearsing "Rhapsody for Euphonium and Band" with the
composer, James Curnow, and Mesa City Band, 1990

RICHMOND BRASS BAND, Teddington, England, 1979-80
Shown here at a contest in Hove, near Brighton.
Test piece was "The Plantagenets", we took first place.
Director: Malcom Smith, trumpet player with the London Symphony Orchestra.
I am seated next to the Solo Euphonium, Philip Thrift.

MESA CORPS SALVATION ARMY BAND, 1991-1994
Director: Paul Curnow


2BA4 TUBA/EUPHONIUM ENSEMBLE
L to R: JD Shew, Bert Bergquist, Don Larry, Paul Green
and Eugene Anderson on tuba

TERRITORIAL BRASS BAND, 1987-present
Arizona's Official Historical Brass Band
founder, historical researcher and business manager
Recipient of 2003 CultureKeepers Award

GREAT AMERICAN BRASS BANDS FESTIVAL, Danville KY, June 1991
Terriorial Brass Band

BRASS MENAGERIE, 1994-present
 brass quintet

GREAT WESTERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN BRASS BAND, Silverton CO, August 1996


 euphonium section l to r: Don Larry, Connie Shultz, Karl Humble and Buddy Laws

CAPITOL CITY BAND, Madison WI, 1996, 1997
CHANDLER SYMPHONY, 1997-2005
Soloist: "The Planets", Gustav Holst; "Pictures at an Exhibition", Mussorgsky/Ravel

JINGSHAN PARK, BEIJING, CHINA
A solo concert of Chinese Folk Tunes and
Americana for passers-by

THE NEXT GENERATION
Grandson Ryan Reinsmith, age 3
My Besson and Hirsbrunner euphoniums

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Background: the array of small images of
euphoniums is actually a stereogram. If you
bring two adjoining images together with
your eyes, a checkerboard pattern of images
in 3D will appear.
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