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Titanic’s Valiant Musicians; Wallace Hartley and the Titanic Ship’s Orchestra

June 23, 2022June 18, 2019 by Kane Dane

BY JACK KOPSTEIN Introduction Countless books and articles have been written about one of the greatest maritime disasters in world history, the sinking of the Titanic on the evening of 15 April 1912. The White Star Line ship struck an iceberg and sank on it’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with a loss of two-thirds of the more than 2,200 people aboard, claiming …

Titanic’s Band

June 26, 2019June 11, 2019 by Kane Dane

Titanic’s popular and well-respected bandleader, Wallace Hartley, was no stranger to the oceans, or the big liners that crossed them, having previously been the bandleader on the rival Cunard line’s quadruple-funneled sister ships Lusitania and Mauretania, but the lure of playing on the biggest and most decadent ship in the world, and playing to the richest and …