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Delta Chapter
DALE KELLY LOVE-1995
Dale Kelly Love, a free lance
arranger of and music, hold Bachelor and Master of
Music Degrees from the University of Mississippi.
Love, born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, August 23,
1930, began his musical training on trombone with
directors James Johnson and James Neeld in Yazoo
City.
Following high school graduation,
Love joined the Bailey Brothers Circus Band for a
three-month tour and then enrolled at the Sherwood
Music School in Chicago where he studied trombone
privately with Frank Crisafulli, Chicago Symphony
and Tommy Shepherd, CBS-TV.
In the Spring of 1949, Love
transferred to Mississippi Southern College in
Hattiesburg and spent that summer touring Canada
with the Robbins Bothers Circus. He transferred to
Ole Miss the Fall of 1950, where he received a
Bachelor of Music degree in 1952 and the Master of
Music degree in 1960. While there, he was active as
a member of the band, the orchestra, and two dance
bands until his graduation in 1952. A two-year tour
of Army duty followed with the 8th Division
Band, Fort Jackson and the 3rd Army
Band, Atlanta, Georgia.
Love began his teaching career in
1954 in Batesville, moving to Holmes Junior College
in 1955. From 1956-1968 he was director at
Starkville High School where his band received
all-superior ratings at the
Mississippi State Band Festival for twelve
consecutive years and at the Tri-State Band Festival
in End, Oklahoma in 1962. Love’s “Band of the Blue
and Gray” became widely recognized as a unique
military precision marching unit.
From 1968-1973, he was Marching Band
Director and Director of Bands at McNeese State
University in Lake Charles, Louisiana and moved to
the University of Southern Mississippi in 1973, as
Associate Director of Bands and Director of the
“Pride of Mississippi” Marching Band, a position he
held until 1986. For ten years, with “The Pride” as
the featured band, Love arranged the music and
charted the shows for the half-time spectaculars for
the Mobile, Alabama, Senor Bowl games. His
university bands have appeared on six national
television networks. In 1994, he was one of the
first inductees into the USM ”Pride” Hall of Fame.
Widely recognized for his knowledge of marching band
techniques and his skills as an arranger, Love spent
many summers at VanderCook College of Music in
Chicago as a Visiting Professor, teaching marching
technique classes and graduate level band arranging
courses. While a member of the Arranging Staff of
Warner Brothers Publications, his arrangement of
“The Hustle” was the largest seller in the history
of the company.
Love was Director of All-Star
Marching Bands in Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Florida and served four years as Marching Director
and one year as Manager, Concert, and Marching
Director of the Mississippi Lions All-State Band.
His 1962 All-State Band won first place at the
International Lions Convention in Nice, France. He
has served extensively as a band clinician and
adjudicator.
A Charter Member and Past President
of Delta Chapter, Phi Beta Mu, Love was President of
MMEA/Band Division in 1961, and is a member of Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa
Lambda, CBDNA, and ASBDA.
Love was married in 1955 to Georgane
Ferguson of Batesville. They have one son, Dale
Kelly, Jr. and a granddaughter Megan.
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