Word: bandness
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This past weekend, over 200 Harvard University Band alums flocked to campus to celebrate its 90th anniversary, trumpets and French horns in hand. The weekend’s festivities, meant to recreate for grads the unique social and musical experience of being in the Band, included a number of events, such as the annual montage concert on Friday night in Sanders Theatre, the halftime show at the Saturday afternoon football game against Dartmouth, a post-game concert at Dillon Field House, and a special Sunday brunch in the band room...
With so many alums returning to both watch and play in band events, it’s a wonder how they all have instruments. “Many alums bring their own instruments,” explains Oppenheimer, “but for large instruments like the tuba or sousaphone, we contact area schools and ask to borrow them. For instance, this year, we borrowed instruments from the band departments at both MIT and [local high school] Cambridge Rindge and Latin. We have a good relationship with them, and borrow from them, just as we’d let them...
...Band reunions, which take place every five years, always coincide with the annual Montage Concert, a centerpiece of the University Band and the subsidiary Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band. This year, the montage concert featured the Harvard Medley, a special arrangement of Harvard songs that was created by former Band Director and famous composer Leroy Anderson, the man behind the memorable holiday tune “Sleigh Ride.” The medley included such favorites as “Harvardiana,” “10,000 Men of Harvard...
...show also featured Dartmouth’s own musical medley, and a world premiere of a wind orchestra setting of the classic jazz song, “I Remember Clifford,” written by saxophonist Benny Golson. Thomas Everett, the Director of Band since 1971, was commissioned to arrange the Golson piece for a wind chamber group ensemble, and chose the occasion of the Montage concert to debut the piece...
...Harvard University Band is not only one of the largest student organizations on campus, but it is also one of the most tightly knit. “People have said that the Band is a social group first, and a musical group second,” Oppenheimer says. “That’s not to undermine the musical quality of what we do—it’s just to show how close the friendships are within Band...