Word: band
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band will leave Soldiers Field behind and broadcast from the confines of Sanders Theater at 9 p.m. tonight, when it opens a series over WHRB...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, director of the Band, will lead the program, which will tonight include Harvard and Yale music and popular tunes from "South Pacific...
...played string bass in the orchestra, becoming president of the Picrian Sodality in his senior year, and trombone in the Band, of which he was made conductor. These extra-curricular activities did not keep Anderson from being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating magna cum laude...
...reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period, in 1932, that Anderson made his Wintergreen arrangement for the Band's Army game show...
...return from service, Anderson went back to work for Fiedler, composing what is perhaps his most widely-heard number, "Fiddle-Faddle," in 1947. The newly-reorganized Harvard Band asked his help and he wrote medleys of most of the Ivy League songs; these became standard with the Band and have since been copied by many other eastern college bands because of their popularity...