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...longer as insoluble as they have been. With a continuation of the university's new, encouraging approach and an intensive recruitment prigram, the football band could revive. With its role more clearly defined, the concert band playing the standard band literature and taking a few adventuresome steps, should please bandmen and the public alike; with the wind esemble clearly oriented towards the very serious musician, the community show for the first time, a chance to hear and enjoy the finest music in the band literatur
...half-time, Dartmouth's band engineered a take-off on the Band's New Haven misfortunes. Using the "Dragnet" theme, and parodying the parody of "Dragnet" language, the Green bandmen re-worked the incident in pantomime...
...weeks Maurice Winnick, one of Britain's top bandmen and radio producers (e.g., Ignorance Is Bliss, British version of It Pays to Be Ignorant), had been in the U.S., lining up British rights to U.S. radio shows. By the time he sailed for home last week, he had also lined up some decided views on the differences between state-monopoly (British) and private-enterprise (U.S.) broadcasting systems...
...behind the "Miracle" were both with the Band while at College: Malcolm H. Holmes '29, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, Conductor; and Guy Slade '32, Drill Master. Bandmen fondly recall Holmes whacking the bass drum 14 years ago. A niche is secure for Leroy Anderson '29, arranger for the Boston Pops, composer of the famed 'Wintergreen," first gridiron composition of its kind introduced in 1933, and the beloved "Harvard Medley...
...Notes, No Showoffs. His bandmen, most of whom cannot read music, play strictly by ear. Bob explains: "People don't like to see no musician with his nose buried in a sheet of music when they're dancin'." The Playboys were picked for their "mixin' quality." Says Bob: "I cain't stand for no showoffs." What show-offin' there is, Bob does himself...