Philip Egner(1870-1956)
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("Sound Off", "On Brave Old Army Team"),
conductor, cellist, author and teacher, educated in public schools, and
an orchestra leader at 16. He was a cellist in the orchestras of
Theodore Thomas and Walter Damrosch, and in the New York Philharmonic
between 1888-1898. Later he was bandmaster for the 17th US Infantry
Band, and served in the Philippines between 1898-1901. From 1901 to
1909 he taught music and conducted band in New York, and then until
1917 he taught music in the US Military Academy. During WWI he served
as an officer in the US Army then led the West Point Band and Orchestra
for 25 years. Joining ASCAP in 1936, his other popular-song
compositions include "At the Fair", "On to Victory", "It's the Army",
"Down in Maryland", "Luck O'Blarney", "West Point From Dawn to
Midnight", "A Moorish and Spanish Episode", "Army Team" and "West Point
March".
