Word: bandness
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...news that Light’s book contains a glowing anecdote about band does not surprise anyone milling around in the band room in the basement of the Office of the Arts building on Mt. Auburn St. a few minutes before noon on a Saturday. It is pre-frosh weekend and a modest number of “bandies”—member of the band—have showed up to play in front of Byerly Hall in the hopes of getting some new blood...
Matthew C. Dewitz ’05, currently the drum major, explains that he joined the band after talking with a fellow flautist during his freshman week. “When you come and audition they just grab you because you get a jacket right away,” he says. “The social machine starts working immediately.” I look admiringly at the maroon band jacket that I am wearing...
...Band members say they often just come down to the room to hang out. When percussion sectional rehearsal ends on Wednesday night, a small crowd trickles in to say hello. Within about 10 seconds people are playing foosball...
Dewitz comped the Crimson briefly, but left it for the band room. On hearing that I’m writing this story for FM, he says: “We have a sympathy in spirit—like the over the topness...
...bandies have a brief discussion of Guys and Dolls, the Cabot House musical. Someone points out that they dressed the missionaries in band jackets and everyone laughs. Band members talk a lot about how social the experience is—and being social seems to involve many activities contrary to what the Guys and Dolls missionaries were preaching. “We’re missionaries of music,” someone offers...