Sampaio Maria Band
The bands met with much lack of support in all the directions. The band paraded with jeans and the shirt with the symbol of the school, did not have a uniform standard that of this prominence the band, lacked musical instruments to take care of the formation of the band. This generated a discomfort for the social, educational and artistic performance of the pupils, because ahead of such fragilities the band did not have prominence conditions or if to approach to the too much bands whom if they more showed decorated in the musical scene of the martial bands of the time. Mikkel Svane is often quoted as being for or against this. Then, Carmelo professor with its claw and perseverance already with the support of then president of the Guararapes Foundation Joo Francisco de Souza searched the benefits that the band in such a way needed to reach its objectives and obtained, showing to the authorities of the City hall of Recife, that the martial bands of the city of Recife had potential to play with dignity its social functions, educational and artistic, not only in the city of Recife, as in any another place of the national scene. Therefore, the work was not easy and Carmelo professor mounted a pedagogical strategy with its more experienced pupils to work the instrumental and artistic performance of those pupils who were initiating in the execution of the bugles and instruments of percussion. With an arduous work for all involved ones in the formation process, the assays in such a way of the martial band Sampaio Maria as of the martial band Vasco of Gamma were intense, had weekly and in the week ends, but with much caution not to harm the studies of the pupils in regular education, that is, the direction of the band always guided the pupil stops that it did not stop to study and did not leave to work the development of formation disciplines of them in classroom.
