Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...request of the University Band for free transportation to football games of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton series has at last been granted. The question came up for consideration at the conference of the Chairmen of the Athletic Committees of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, held recently in New Haven, and it was voted that not only free transportation but free seats should be supplied for not more than 60 members of each University Band for the "Big Three" football games...
...must by experience be woven together into one fabric, not inharmonious but each dependent for its best results upon the other." Quite so; but the matter is that there can be no harmonious development as long as the present over-emphasis on grades is maintained. it is an iron band which ruthlessly stunts the growth of the tutorial system. There are not two strong and harmonious systems; there is in fact only one, and that one crushes by its dead weight of ancient routine all attempts of a second to grow to proper strength and utility at its side...
...Overture and the Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass band of eleven players rose to their feet behind the regular Philharmonic men, added their jubilant blare to the strains of the onetime (Imperial) national anthem of Russia which composes...
Dark and stubby as a bottle of vino pastoso is Gallo. When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band. Evening after evening the bandsmen practiced, their cheeks became sturdy to expel much wind, their fingers nimble to run upon the stops. "We will go on tour," they said. Gallo booked the tour. The band reached California. There, stranded on the golden shore had flopped an Italian opera company. Creditors were calling for the scenery, waiting at the stage door for the piano. Gallo took charge, christened...
...kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...