Passin'" Solos "Warbling in the Moonlight" (piccolo with band accompaniment) "Doux Rêve d'Amour" (piano, 1912) Songs "Sweet Virgin Isles" (1925) "Welcome to Our President" (1934), originally written as a song of welcome for Eleanor Roosevelt on a visit to the Virgin Islands and later revised for a visit of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Note: some scores to be published by fall 2007. See http://sitemaker.umich.edu/altonadams for more information. Recordings "The Governor's Own" is available on The Golden Age of the American March (New World Records 80266) performed by the Goldman Band (Richard Franko Goldman conducting). References Further reading Adams, Alton. The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy. Edited by Mark Clague with a foreword by Samuel Floyd, Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, March 2008). Benjamin, Linda White. Alton A. Adams. (St. Croix, U.S.V.I.: CRIC Productions, 1987); children's book written based on interviews with Adams. Clague, Mark. “Instruments of Identity: Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., the Navy Band of the Virgin Islands, and the Sounds of Social Change.” Black Music Research Journal 18:1/2 (Spring/Fall 1998), pp. 21–65. Clague, Mark. “Adams, Alton Augustus,” International Dictionary of Black Composers, vol. 1, ed. Samuel Floyd (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 9–16. Floyd, Samuel. “Alton Augustus Adams: The First Black Bandmaster in the United States Navy.” The Black Perspective in Music 5:2 (Fall 1977), pp. 173–87. Moolenaar, Ruth M. “Adams, Alton Augustus, Sr.: musician, composer, educator, entrepreneur, St. Thomas, 1889–1987,” in Profiles of Outstanding Virgin Islanders. (St. Thomas: Department of Education, Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1992), pp. 1–2. Thomas, Dale. “Alton Augustus Adams: One of the Best-Known Musicians of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Journal of Band Research 41:1 (Fall 2005), pp. 30–41. External links Alton Augustus Adams Society Guide to the Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection. Columbia College, Chicago. The memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., first black bandmaster of the United States Navy (2008). Internet Archive The Governor's Own (1921). Notated Music. Library of Congress. 1889 births 1987 deaths American male composers American composers American people of United States Virgin Islands descent American bandleaders Military music composers People from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century African-American musicians