Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvardians, a 10 piece orchestra, will furnish the music. This jazz band, which is composed entirely of University students, has played at many affairs about the University. If weather permits, the porch will be opened for dancing...
Richard Strauss sat waiting to lead the Banda Municipala of Madrid in his Don Juan. The band's regular conductor, elderly short & stout Lamote de Grignon, stood in the theatre wings. Came a messenger to Herr Strauss, whispered that a street of Frankfort had just been designated Richard Straussstrasse...
Herr Strauss jumped from his seat, hurdled on to the stage. "He was leaning forward," wrote Olin Downes, "exhorting the orchestra, molding every phrase and gradation, spurring and reining that band at will, leading it up to climaxes of shattering intensity. . . . At the end every one lost his head except a newspaper photographer. De Grignon rushed frantically from the wings. He and Strauss fondled, kissed and babbled over each other. The photographer caught them on the fly and forced them to freeze in that attitude for a moment . . . the two men were genuinely angered...
...People. The exhibition had been directed by Edward Hungerford, journalist, magazine writer. The drum major of the centenary band was one F. E. Czarnowsky, who for 31 years was drum major of the 5th regiment Maryland National Guard, which he joined as drummer-boy in 1868. Chief Two Guns White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest...
...Loew's State when the Back Bay theatre is to put on a program of general Harvard interest. The main feature of the program is to be Buster Keaton in "College", a typical burlesque of the collegiate picture. A comedy entitled "Harvard vs. Yale", and Creator and his band make up the rest of the program...