Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the dance were announced to be nearing completion. Bert Lowe's orchestra has been engaged to play in Memorial Hall, while a special band will play in the Delta between dances. The boxes will be arranged much as at the Junior Prom earlier in the year, in that they will accomodate any number up to eight couples. At the Senior Dance, however, the boxes will be arranged around the outside of Memorial Hall in the Delta...
Then the "Gold Banders" launched into von Suppe's overture, Light Cavalry. And Stokowski began to get what he wanted. "I wanted the tone-color to sound like gold," he explained to the audience. "I wanted the band to look like gold?the golden, brazen look of sunlight...
...This band is different from any other band," exclaimed Stokowski at its first appearance at the Academy of Music. "I have put aside all tradition in my use of instruments. I have had no regard for conventions or academic rules. There is nothing like a band for gay music...
...program wound up with Victor Herbert's American Fantasy, a brass-band composition which galloped through The President's March, Way Down Upon the Swanee River, The Girl I left Behind Me, Dixie, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, and finally, as both band and audience rose as a man, The Star Spangled Banner...
...meeting Saturday of the University Band, the following officers for the coming year were elected: Walter Harrington Kilham Jr. '25 of Boston, president; Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York City, business manager: Alan Salter Hays '24 of Buffalo, New York, secretary-treasurer; and Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, librarian. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was appointed director to succeed Addison Simmous...