Word: bande
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...play in a band? If so, what band? If more than one, please list...
...Marine Band's 17th director, John Philip Sousa, whose talent and flair put the band on the American map beginning in 1880 and also planted a band culture all across the country. Every town of any significance had to have a band with a bandstand in the park. The first order was patriotism. Sousa's march Stars and Stripes Forever became (and remains) the most recorded piece of music in history. But the bearded Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from...
Radio and then television dented the town-band mania starting in the 1930s, but the musical virus had already taken hold in U.S. public schools, and there it still rages, from grade school to college. Frederick Fennell, 85, former director of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, who is regarded by many as the dean of band directors, estimates that there are up to 50,000 school bands in the U.S.--a number that would challenge the nation's athletic teams. And still at the head of the parade marches the Marine Band...
Fennell was at the grand concert to direct saxophonist Bill Clinton's favorite band music, the English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams. And doubtless the magic spell cast by that music--so precise, so powerful--will again lift hearts and quicken steps...
Once, when George Bush and President Clinton were seated on either side of the host at one of those dreadful Washington dinners, rescued only by the glorious ring of the Marine Band, Bush leaned over to the host and whispered, "The thing I miss most about the White House is the Marine Band." A moment later, Clinton, from the other side, confided to the same man, "The thing I enjoy most about being President is the Marine Band...