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...thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled in black. As the trumpeters blurted a brassy fanfare, Britain's Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards and cockaded hats and bearing...
...order to avoid any possible misinterpretation of Lloyd Jordan's statement (at the fall meeting of the Massachusetts State Coaches Association) to the effect that scholarships are given to the Band, I would like to make clear that no scholarships are given to Bandsmen as such...
...outfit, composed of regular Harvard bandsmen as well as summer students, has rescheduled their Yard debut for next Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Sever Quadrangle...
Twenty-five regular Bandsmen and summer students will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Several Quadrangle. With Richard W. Hatch conducting, the Band will play eight or ten selections, including "The Poet and Peasant Overture," "Knightsbridge March," Selections from "South Pacific," Mozart Matriculates," and college songs...
Although they have only 28 instruments for 64 members, Ferenbaugh liberated the bandsmen from KP duty and other rear-area chores, ordered them to spend all their time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward command post. In addition to the regular band for martial music, there is a 13-piece dance orchestra, a four-piece "hillbilly combo," an eight-piece Dixieland jazz group, a "novelty group" for European folk songs and classics...