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          Former band director Robert O'Brien dies at age 82

          
            
              
                
                Published: July 02, 2003
              

              
                Author: Julie Hail Flory
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          Word has been received of the death of Robert F. O’Brien, emeritus associate professor of music and director of bands at the University of Notre Dame. O?Brien, who died Tuesday in St. Paul’s Retirement Community in South Bend, was 82.p. The director of Notre Dame’s concert and marching bands from 1952-86, O’Brien was the honorary lifetime president of the National Catholic Bandmasters Association, which he founded in 1953. He also was a member of the American Bandmasters Association and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.p.

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