PANELLA, FRANK A.

Frank A. Panella was known as the March King of Pittsburgh , the city in southwest Pennsylvania where he was born in 1878. He began the study of clarinet at the age of seven with his brother-in-law, Mario Rocereto , and, at fifteen, was the assistant director of Rocereto’s Pittsburgh Band. He performed in a number of the city’s theater orchestras and bands as a young man and later played in the Arthur Pryor Band, the Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra, and the...