Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting in the Manhattan Opera House took place without any untoward incident, except a rumpus created by a band of hostile Irish, who were, however, held in check by the police. At this meeting Mr. George made his last speech, exhorted the U. S. to join Britain in saving civilization, which, said he, " is doomed within this generation to a catastrophe such as the world has never seen unless something is swiftly done to save...
...group of antique Italian pieces, of modern Austrian and German songs, of modern British and modern French songs, Mme. Eva Gauthier, "creature of endless inspirations," placed a group of "modern American pieces" - jazz. She sang a large group of jazz compositions ranging from the archaic Alexander's Ragtime Band to the almost contemporary Do It Again. This is the first time, to the present reviewer's knowledge, that a serious artist, and one of the most scholarly sort, has included in a formal concert the sliding, slippery rhythms of jazz. The famed popular composer, Arthur Gershwin...
Never have higher standards of symphonic performance been required. They are achieved only by much rehearsing. Especially do new works, the sign of life and progress in an orchestra, require rehearsals. A symphony orchestra player will earn over $100 a week, which, for a band of 100 men, constitutes a sizable outlay...
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 8.--A parade led by the Princeton band proceeded the undergraduate mass meeting tonight in which over 1000 students jammed into Alexander Hall to cheer for the team on the eve of the Harvard-Princeton football game. Coach Roper, Captain Snively, and President Hibben spoke at the meeting...
...Henry '24 and J. K. Merrill '24 led three regular Harvard cheers The band began the football songs and the crowd followed it out of the field again with the final cry. "We will beat Princeton...