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The Band's football game shows are all the more unbelievable considering the fact that the Football Band practices only once a week. The one rehearsal takes place on the day before the game when the bandsmen go over the show's music for the first time. The halftime skits...
"Other bands exist for themselves only and they're not at the game in support of anyone," Walker said. "I sometimes wonder if the Band (Harvard's) is not too egocentrically oriented itself-they have such a good time that they almost forget that they are supposed to be at...
The Band no longer pursues rivalries with other Ivy bands (the last Band riot was at the Dartmouth game in 1956), but they do have definite opinions of their counterparts. Cornell is purportedly a frustrated Big Ten band, Brown and Princeton are traditionally the filthiest bands, and Dartmouth is the...
When Fred Reynolds organized the Band in 1919, its main function was to support the Harvard football team. As the Band celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, it has expanded to include a 60-piece Concert Band and a select Woodwind Ensemble. Its members are talented musicians; "hacks" no longer...
The Band's sources of finance are varied. Harvard supplies half of their $15,000 annual budget, and record sales, concert fee sand solicitations through the Athletic Department make up the rest. But, as Walker put it. "We just try to break even."