Col. (Ret.) L. 小布莱恩·谢尔本.

美国军队的领导人和指挥官.S. 军乐队，1965年

小莱斯利·布莱恩·谢尔本. was born January 25, 1941, in Abilene, 德州, to Lesley B. 和老贝蒂(罗斯)谢尔本. He graduated from Hamlin High School in 1959 and entered Hardin-Simmons大学.

While a student at HSU, he was holding down five different jobs and going to school at the same time. He petitioned for and was granted a music scholarship and was placed in the jazz combo, 他是长号手的领头人. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Delta Sigma, and was director of the Phi Mu Alpha stage band. 谢尔本在牛仔乐队演奏, serving as band vice president from 1963 to 1964 and as president from 1964 to 1965.

He was commissioned a second lieutenant through the HSU ROTC program at the May 1965 graduation ceremonies and received a Bachelor of Music in education degree.

In 1962, 他娶了前总统塞雷塔·基瑟, whom he met while both were students at HSU and played in the concert band together. 她于1963年毕业. They are the parents of two children, Kerri and Darren.

从HSU毕业后, Shelburne was granted military deferment for graduate studies and completed his Master of Music degree at Arizona State University in 1967. He also completed requirements while at HSU for the 德州 all-level teaching certificate, and taught both beginner instrumental music and high school bands in Houston, 德州.

He studied choral composition and arranging with Alice Parker, the famed musical collaborator with Robert Shaw, and instrumental composition with the late Ron LoPresti. 他也曾师从于布朗博士. Grant Fletcher, and briefly, with Dr. 安迪·帕特森. He has studied choral conducting at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, 新泽西, and wind band history and literature with Dr. Robert Garofalo at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

1968年到1970年, Shelburne was stationed at the Naval Amphibious Base, 小溪流, 诺福克, 维吉尼亚州, 在美国. S. Army Element, Armed Forces School of Music. 虽然, he was assistant commandant and executive officer, supervising a staff of 70 and conducting the student concert band for special events.

1970年到1973年, Shelburne was director of bands and music coordinator for Aldine Senior High School in Houston, 德州. 1973年到1990年, Shelburne conducted Army Bands in 诺福克, 维吉尼亚:海德堡, Germany; Fort Meyer, 维吉尼亚州; and the U. S. 西点军校乐队.

In 1990, he began the final 10 years of his 30-year career as only the sixth leader and commander of the United States Army Band in Washington, D. C. Known as “Pershing’s Own,” the band was established in 1922 by General of the Armies John J. Pershing, Army Chief of 工作人员, in emulation of European military bands he heard during World War I. It is the premier musical organization of the United States Army.

His conducting experience also includes brass groups at Arizona State University as a Teaching Fellow, 三个州的教堂唱诗班, and professional military wind and vocal groups in Europe as well as with在美国nited States.

His performance experience includes six seasons as bass trombone and principal trombone with the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra, and a season of playing auxiliary brass parts with the Phoenix Symphony while completing the Master of Music degree at Arizona State University. He organized and ran The Valley Brass Quintet, drawn from the Phoenix Symphony musicians, during the 1966-1967academic year in the Phoenix valley, performing throughout Arizona as part of a federally funded program to bring arts to the schools.

He was chosen in 1976 to be the associate director and deputy commander for the United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Band and Chorus, which was organized to help the nation celebrate its bicentennial year.

Shelburne was selected in 1989 for membership in the American Bandmasters Association and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors for the John Philip Sousa Foundation. He is a member of the National Band Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and is a lifetime member of the College Band Directors National Association.

Upon his retirement he was honored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia with a lifetime achievement award, 还有乐队兄弟会, Kappa Kappa Psi和Tau Beta Sigma, 拥有终身荣誉会员资格. In 1999 he was inducted into Phi Beta Mu, 学校荣誉乐队兄弟会, 作为终身荣誉会员. In 1999 he was also given an honorary lifetime membership in the 德州 Bandmasters Association, and was only the fifth person to be so named at that time.

In 1990 he was named a Distinguished 校友 by Hardin-Simmons大学, and in 1993 HSU appointed him distinguished visiting lecturer.

作为退休生涯, Shelburne has developed Global Educational Tours, guiding students on tours around the world. He is in China this week with a group of students, which is why he could not be here today.

The Shelburne’s two children have given them five grandchildren. 布莱恩和莎蕾塔住在梅肯, 乔治亚州, near their daughter and will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next year.

It is the high honor of Hardin-Simmons大学 to recognize one of her own and to formally induct 小莱斯利·布莱恩·谢尔本. 进入哈佛大学领导大厅.