HUME, J. ORD

James Ord Hume began an active musical career in 1881 when he joined the Band of the Royal Scots Greys as a cornetist. During the next fifty years he established an enviable record as a conductor, adjudicator, arranger, and composer of over 1,000 works for brass and wind band—including 200 marches. Ord Hume was born in 1864 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second of three sons of an army bandmaster. He was the victim of a series of accidents during his...