Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening in Detroit with a gala entertainment for the students and band will be the program offered for those taking the trip to the Michigan game on the special Harvard train. The several carloads of rooters will spend over five hours during their stay in the Michigan Capital, either seeing the city or reveling under the direction of the Harvard Club of Detroit, who are planning festivities for all Harvard supporters within available distance, during the stop-over...
...moves into the new hall provided by the $6,000,000 endowment fund raised last spring (TIME, May 6). Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York, scored for full orchestra and jazz band. Attentive listeners to its ingenious noise were Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes, Mrs. Nikolai Sokolov, Composer Janssen, his mother and sister, all together in a box. In Cincinnati the symphony founded 35 years ago by Mrs. William Howard Taft began its first season under the auspices of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine...
...were 8,950 graduate applications for a total of 24,392 tickets: Dartmouth received 23,000 tickets; 3,855 undergraduates applied for 7,927 of the valuable pasteboards; and 207 members of squads asked for 1,480 tickets. The remainder of the applications were filed by members of the band, clubs, late requests, and 3,100 season subscriptions...
...plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score of bodies swaying in rhythm as they chant for the dead; these are local color...
Music is brilliantly employed in "Porgy." Not only are there the organized funeral chants, and, at the other end of the scale, the futuristic rhythms of the band, but there is Porgy's sudden turn from prose recitation into a chant as he speaks early in the play, and Serena's prayer for the delirious Bess to Jesus, to "send the devil out of her like you used to do," with the rising refrain of "time and time again!" in which the others gradually join...