Word: bandstand
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...cups his harmonica against the microphone and sends a wild, keening cluster of notes soaring over the surging rhythms like gulls over an angry sea. Crammed around tables in front of the bandstand, the listeners-mostly working-class Negroes, down-and-outers and hustlers-stomp their feet, and shimmy in their seats. "Tell it, boy!" they shout. "That...
Central Park simmered in the noonday heat as Conductor Leonard Bernstein stripped to his skivvy shirt and led the New York Philharmonic through an alfresco rehearsal. Next day Lennie bounded around the 15-acre field before the bandstand listening to the loudspeakers, at one point sent his eleven-year-old son scampering for an engineer when he found a dead spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York...
...high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor and his wife Mary acted as if they had not a care in the world, danced across the bandstand to the tune of Oh, Johnny as a crowd of 4,000 applauded...
...hundred curious spectators filled out the crowd of 1700 that stood around the Parkman bandstand to hear four anti-administration speeches. The speakers were continually interrupted by organized cheers of "Stay in Vietnam" and "We want victory" from the hecklers, who also sang the national anthem...
...Movement, plan to leave the Cambridge Common at 1 p.m. and march to the Boston Common. The marchers, joined by students from Boston University and M.I.T., will picket the U.S. Army recruiting station at 42 Boylston Street and listen to a series of speeches at the Common's bandstand...