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    The Distinguished Service to Music Medal is an award presented by Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity. It is awarded to people who have...
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    Karl King (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    to the Society of European Stage Actors and Composers 1967 – Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity Distinguished Service to Music Medal 1967–1971...
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  • Country Music Association Awards Distinguished Service to Music Medal (Kappa Kappa Psi) – for exceptional service to American bands and band music GAMIQ...
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    Frederick Fennell (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    also influential as a band pedagogue, and greatly affected the field of music education in the US and abroad. In Fennell's New York Times obituary, colleague...
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  • W. Francis McBeth (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Man of Music Award in 1988 for his achievement and continued contribution to American music; Kappa Kappa Psi's Distinguished Service to Music Medal in 1989;...
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  • Guggenheim family (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    diverse areas such as modern art, aviation, and medicine. They donated funds to develop Guggenheim Museums, the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, and the...
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  • Arnald Gabriel (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal. Gabriel was inducted into the National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors...
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    Frank Ticheli (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Association/Revelli Memorial Prize, the A. Austin Harding Award, the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, and First Prize in the Texas Sesquicentennial Orchestral...
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    Jack R. Anderson (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    and Iota Beta Kappa. In 2007, Anderson was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal for marching band, the highest national award presented by...
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    his military service, he attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying under Vittorio Giannini but left without completing in 1948 to instead pursue...
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  • Claude T. Smith (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Missouri Bandmasters Association in 1988, and was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal from Kappa Kappa Psi in 1989. His composition Flight is the...
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    Meredith Willson (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951)...
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    Services Medal for Distinguished Service Correction Service Medal for Meritorious Service President's Tatrakshak Medal for Gallantry Tatrakshak Medal...
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    Doc Severinsen (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    distinguished visiting professor of music and Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists at Arizona State University School of Music in...
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    Sigurd Raschèr (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    September 2024. Kappa Kappa Psi (2011). "Distinguished Service to Music Medal". In Smith, Nick (ed.). Guide to Membership for the 2011–2013 Biennium (PDF)...
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    Paul V. Yoder (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Arts, the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, and was inducted into the prestigious National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors...
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  • H. Robert Reynolds (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Psi, the national band fraternity, awarded him the Distinguished Service to Music Medal. He is the recipient of a Special Tribute from the State of Michigan...
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  • Karel Husa (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to the United States and became...
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    Al G. Wright (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Band Conductors in 1986. Kappa Kappa Psi awarded him the Distinguished Service to Music Medal for concert band and marching band. He was also an honorary...
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    Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Indiana University, Rousseau held the title "Distinguished Professor of Music." Rousseau joined the music faculty at the University of Minnesota in the...
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  • Truman Crawford (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Band Fraternity and was awarded that organization's 1979-81 Distinguished Service to Music Medal for marching band. On September 14, 2009, the new headquarters...
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  • Harry Begian (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    career as a band conductor and teacher. Banddirector.com Music Article Guide, Information Services, 1986, p.10 Jordan, Douglas M., Alfred Reed, A Biography...
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  • Lucien Cailliet (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Doctor of Music Degree in 1937, he moved to California to teach at the University of Southern California. After seven years there, he decided to devote his...
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    George N. Parks (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    received the Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity Distinguished Service to Music Medal, in the field of marching band, in October 2008. Parks was...
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  • Frederick Hemke (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Guide to Membership for the 2011–2013 Biennium – Archived January 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Chapter: "Distinguished Service to Music Medal," Nick...
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  • Ray Cramer (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Council Senior Faculty Award (1983), The Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1988), the CIDA Director of the Year Award (1988), Outstanding...
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  • William Revelli (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    distinguished achievement. In 1964, Revelli was honored as one of the first ten recipients of Kappa Kappa Psi's Distinguished Service to Music Medal....
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    of Fame. In 2019, he was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, the highest available honor from music fraternity Kappa Kappa Psi. In 2024,...
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  • Robert Russell Bennett (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    of music, and are employed by Bennett in a bit more than two hours of the series' scoring, which amounts to more than 11-1/2 hours of orchestra music. Rodgers...
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  • Leonard Falcone (category Distinguished Service to Music Medal recipients)
    Nicholas, who had emigrated in 1912, to the United States. There he enrolled in the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which would eventually...
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