Alton Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) spent three semesters at the University of Colorado before pawning his college trombone for a bus ticket to Los Angeles. While enrolled at CU, he met his ...

Glenn would be the name he was known by to the world, as he not only used it for himself but also for his most acclaimed musical act, the Glenn Miller Orchestra. 2. Miller’s Famous Trombone Was ...

He started playing mandolin as a child, but it wasn’t long until he changed his focus to trombone. Glenn practiced ... in his absence. After high school, Miller took his first professional ...

The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired ...