Blaze Away!

Holzmann, Abe
Arr. Leidzen, Eric W. G.

Blaze Away!
By: Abe Holzmann
Arr. Erik W. G. Leidzen
Original Copyright: 1901
By: Feist & Frankenthaler

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Smith, Norman E., March music notes 1986), Program Note Press (Lake Charles, Louisiana), p. 2667.
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Smith, p. 204.

Program note researched by Marcus L. Neiman

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Blaze Away! (march) was copyrighted in 1901 by Feist & Frankenthaler and renewed in 1929 by Leo
Feist (New York, NY) and arranged by Erik Leidzen. The inspiration for this march came from a wellpublished incident during the Spanish-American War. During a naval conflict in Manilla Bay in 1898,
Admiral George Dewey was standing on the bridge of the flagship Olympia with Captain Charles
Gridley, who was awaiting firing orders from his superior officer. When Dewey gave the command,
You may fire when you are ready, Gridley replayed the order to his crew with, Well, boys, lets
blaze away, and the guns began pouring their shells into the vitals of the Spanish fleet. Blaze
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Away! has retained its popularity throughout the 20 century.

Erik William Gustaf Leidzen was known to most school, military, and
municipal band conductors as an arranger of band music: one of the best
in the United States, according to Richard Franko Goldman. Leidzen was
a composer, editor, poet, conductor, teacher, public speaker, and tireless
worker for the Salvation Army. Leidzen conducted the New England
Provincial Staff Band in Boston from 1923 to 1926 when he returned to
New York from an instrumental ensemble (and later choir) for the Salvation
Army Metropolitan Division. Although not a prolific composer, Leidzen was
a superb and original arranger and adapter of other composers music. He
believed that unusual modulations, for example, are always justified on the basis of the story or words
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which are connected with the original work.

DOB: March 24, 1894 (Stockholm, Sweden)

DOD: December 20, 1962 (New York City, New York)

Leidzen, Erik

Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City in August of 1874. He

studied at the New York Conservatory of Music and later became a
member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP). He earned his livelihood as a composer/arranger for Tin Pan
Alley publishers, including Leo Feist. He later was the advertising
manager for the American Federation of Musicians publication,
International Musician. He was Mason, a member of the Elks, and Knights of Pythias, all in New York.
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He died in East Orange, New Jersey in January 1939.

DOB: August 19, 1874 (New York)

DOD: January 1939 (East Orange, NJ)

Holzmann, Abraham

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