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Mark Hindsley Collection
Umbrella Collection name: American Bandmasters AssociationResearch Center
Individual Collection name: Mark Hindsley Collection
Repository name: Special Collections in Performing Arts,
Performing Arts Library, University of Maryland
Type: Sound recordings, scores, programs, correspondence, articles, and photographs
Collection dates: c.1948-c.1990
Extent: 6 linear feet
Description: This collection contains fifty-nine LP recordings of the University of Illinois Band made between 1948 and 1970 under the direction of Mark Hindsley, sixty-nine scores of Hindsley's band transcriptions, programs, and published articles by and about Hindsley.
Statement of provenance: Gift of Mark Hindsley. The recordings (83-142-ABA) were donated on 25 April 1983, and the scores (84-7-ABA) on 13 July 1983. The documents were donated in two sets, 83-142-ABA and 95-6-ABA
Finding Aid: An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository.
SCPA shelf location: Scores and documents are in SCPA Collections Room, Aisle D. The records are in paged collections.
Access: Materials from this collection must be used in the Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room, 10 to 5, Monday through Friday. Please make an appointment with the curator.
Biography: As a chemistry student at Indiana University, Mark Hubert Hindsley served as first chair cornetist and student assistant director of the Indiana University Band under the direction of Archie Warner. After his graduation in 1925 Hindsley accepted a position directing the university band, and was later appointed a music instructor. While teaching, Hindsley completed his Master of Arts degree in music. In 1934 Hindsley left Indiana to become Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Illinois, but in August of 1942 he was commissioned as a captain in the Army Air Forces as Music Officer of the Air Force Flying Training Command, where he supervised more than 150 Air Force bands. Hindsley was awarded an Army Commendation Medal, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before his release from active duty in April of 1946 (he remained in the reserves until 1955 when he resigned his commission). Hindsley resumed his duties at the University of Illinois in the summer of 1946, and four year later he was appointed Director of Bands. Hindsley was elected President of the College Band Directors National Association in 1946 and Vice-President of the American Bandmasters Association in 1956 (he would become the ABA President in 1957).
Hindsley was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music by Indiana University. He was also an honorary life member of both the College Band Directors National Association and the American Bandmasters Association. He held the highest awards of many music organizations including the Goldman Award of the American School Band Directors Association and the Distinguished Service to Music Award of Kappa Kappa Psi. In 1982 he was inducted into the National Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors. Hindsley transcribed more than seventy-five orchestral works for the concert band before his death in 1999. In July of 1999, the University of Illinois and Mark Records released "The Hindsley Legacy Recordings," a three volume CD compilation featuring the recordings of the University of Illinois Bands under the baton of Dr. Mark Hindsley.
Life Chronology:
1905 Born, 18 October, Union City, Indiana
1925 Earns AB in Chemistry from Indiana University
1925-1929 Band Director, Indiana University
1926 Marries Helena Alberts, August 26
1927 Earns AM from Indiana University
1929-1935 Director of Instrumental Music, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
1934-1948 Assistant Director of Bands, University of Illinois
1942-1946 Officer, United States Army Air Forces Training Command
1946-1955 Serves in United States Air Force Reserves
1947 President of the CBDNA
1948-1970 Director of Bands, University of Illinois
1957-1958 President of the American Bandmasters Association
1971 Honorary Life Member of the CBDNA
1972 Honorary Doctorate of Music from Indiana University
1986 Honorary Life Member of the ABA
1999 Dies, October 1
