Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and his band of good-will bearers rounded off the American Legion's reoccupation of Europe by visiting Belgium and Britain before retreating in good order...
...thing, however, that sent the Crimson music down to its usual early season defeat was its bad manners. There seems to be no valid reason why a Harvard band should not form the letters of even the smallest college team which invades the Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
...program permitted, the orchestra confirmed its every virtue as a band of these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...
Last Saturday afternoon, armed with my "H. A. A.", I joined the crowd in what was labelled the cheering section. True, it had the pre-whistle appearance of one: row upon row of potential cheerers, five energetic cheerleaders and a Band which has no equal in the college world. The cheering section of my Alma Mater never numbered over 499 effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener...
...Holland '28 has been chosen leader of the University Band for the coming season. Holland led the musicians in their first public appearance at the Vermont football game in the Stadium ten days ago, after only two rehearsals of the group...