The American bandmaster, composer and publisher Roland Forrest Seitz was born in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, a township of Glen Rock, PA. One of eight children, his father died while Roland was still a boy, and he went to work as a printers apprentice at a young age. Passionate about music, he studied on his own, learning the flute, then euphonium and cornet, and performed in his family band, as well as in the Glen Rock Band. He was only able to start formal music training at age 27 when he enrolled at the Danas Musical Institute in Warren, OH, graduating from there in 1898. He returned to Glen...