Word: band
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Long and short cheers will be practiced, and the old football songs rehearsed, as well as "The Spirit of Harvard," "Cambridge Town," and "No Hope for Yale," which were tried at the last mass meeting. The singing will be accompanied by Kanrich's Band, as the University Band has not had sufficient opportunity to learn the new songs. Besides the new songs already tried, four others have been chosen by the Song Committee and will be tried out tonight. They are "Smash the Line," by "XZZQ44," "The Harvard Love Song," by "Suitor," "Victory's Song," to the tune of "General...
...clock Sunday night. The new songs approved by the Song Committee will be tried out at the mass meeting Tuesday, as well as "Cambridge Town," "No Hope for Yale," and "The Spirit of Harvard," which did not receive a fair trial at the last mass meeting owing to the band's lack of practice. New songs may be written to original tunes, or may be set to familiar tunes whose rhythm and swing make them appropriate football songs. The song or songs meeting with the most success at the mass meetings and at the Dartmouth game will be considered...
...statement in yesterday's CRIMSON that "Cambridge Town" was improperly orchestrated is hardly fair. The absence from rehearsal of several members of the band, whose instruments carried the air, accounts for the poor performance of that particular composition, and for what may have seemed to be a poor arrangement. The nature of the melody requires the placing of the composition in a difficult key, but with the whole band present, this difficulty will be overcome...
...University Band this year will play at the football mass meetings, and at the games with Carlisle, Dartmouth, and Yale. About twenty men reported at the first rehearsal last Monday; but there should be at least forty pieces to compose a good band, and all men in the University who have ever played a brass instrument are urged to attend the next rehearsal. The student band played last year at the Yale game at New Haven...
...this connection we are led to speak of the University band. This praise-worthy University organization is usually hurried forth on the eve of the Yale game to accompany the singing, and the lack of concerted practice generally results, either in the exhaustion of musicians and singers alike in an effort to keep together, or, when harmony is despaired of, in a total disregard of each other...