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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...
...Oppenheimer tells an anecdote about one of band’s more dedicated alums. “We have one alum who graduated in the 1950s, and he has come to at least one football game per season for every year since”. As a much younger, contemporary band member, Anne S. Calkins ’10 agrees. “I love the community created from band,” Calkins says. “I knew I was joining Band before I even got to Harvard. I looked on their Web site and read their shows...