Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Beere Moynahan '26 of Mattapau has been elected leader of the Banjo Club, and will lead that group in coming Instrumental Clubs concerts...
Under this plan the two clubs will keep separate their names and functions, but will combine to give joint concerts. On long trips only some 16 singers, chosen as a result of trials, will accompany the banjo and mandolin players, but at concerts near at hand the entire Chorus will sing at the end of the year, the 16 best men of the Chorus will be eligible for election to the instrumental Clubs...
...schedule at these joint concerts will consist of three numbers by the Banjo Club, two by the Mandolin Club, three by the 1926 Chorus and four or five specialty acts...
...sake. Above all, this gentleman was pleased with the revolution which the Harvard Glee Club has accomplished in sounding the death-knell of the "Bull-Frog on the Bank" type of music, sung by what he terms "merely more or less convivial societies for singing raucous songs with banjo accompaniment"--an astoundingly accurate description...
...tonight. Yesterday the clubs were at Fall River and tonight they will play at Brockton. A varied program with several specialties, including a quartet and Moynahan's Jazz Orchestra, has been arranged. The Mandolin Club has three numbers on the list, "Havana", "The Swing Song", and "Marchetta", and the Banjo Club will give a medley of football songs, and a "1933 Review...