Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshmen and graduate students who play the clarinet, cornet, piccolo, and flute are especially needed. Instruments will be loaned to anyone upon application to the management...
...band will be assisted this afternoon by Miss Marjorie Moody, soprano; Mr. John Dolan, cornet, and Mr. George Carey, xylophone. Following is the program, which contains a wide range of pieces from classical music to jazz: 1. Gaelic Fantasy, "Armrain No N-Gaedeal" (New), O'Donnell The Band 2. Cornet Solo, "The Carnival" Arban Mr. John Dolan 3. Suite, "Cuba under Three Flags" (New) Sousa a. Under the Spanish. b. Under the American. c. Under the Cuban. The Band 4. Soprano Solo, "I am Titania," from "Mignon," Thomas Miss Marjorie Moody 5. a. Love Scene from "Feuersnoth" R. Strauss...
...program for Monday's concert includes several pieces of Sousa's own composition, among which are the famous "Liberty Bell," March and a new work, "Jazz America." In addition Miss Marjorie Moody, soprano, Mr. John Nolan, cornet, and Mr. George Cary, xylophone, will render solos. There will also be a jazz piece and selections from opera and light opera...
...voted the most popular lad in his class at a Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...
...cornetist in the Metropolitan Opera House. After ten years with his orchestra, he resigned, has since become famed as a teacher, author, conductor, composer. He has written books on cornet playing. His best band compositions have been inspired by the preposition "On"-On the Green, On the Mall, On the Go. The American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass...