Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...
...sooty bandsmen, now safe outside, began to play again. The street and the circus lot with its rows of red-painted wagons, the open lots lying beyond, were full of people watching the hotly burning wreckage. Past them wandered the burned and the weeping; the frantic parents of children dead in the flames, the lost tots staring at strange faces, the dazed and blackened figures with singed hair and loose rags of clothing...
...course Band Leader Rossi found himself in New Guinea, later on Guadalcanal, where he and his bandsmen made little music but had plenty of chance to get shot at while carrying stretchers and hauling supplies between foxholes. Sixty-year-old Sergeant Rossi stood up as well as any under the pounding, until a skin disease incapacitated him. Last week he was back in the States, leading Army band concerts between treatments at a North Carolina hospital...
...apartment where, on a small upright piano, he composes between orchestra dates. His wife, from whom he has been separated for many years, lives in Washington. A 23-year-old son, Mercer (also something of a composer), is now in the Army. Duke's personal popularity among his bandsmen is attested by a turnover incredibly slow for any enterprise. Duke reads the Bible, attends church regularly...
...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...