Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, this...
...jubilee concert made no attempt to duplicate the first one in 1895-no modern prom audience would stand for that hodgepodge of waltzes, marches and cornet solos-but it did stick pretty close to prom tradition. There were Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, the first piece played at the first prom; Serenade to Music, a short choral work written by Vaughan Williams for Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark...
Arthur L. Finn: Union Committee; Dudley House Committee (1950-'51); Harvard University Band; Schneider's Silver Cornet Band; PBH Social Service Committee; Intramural Boxing, Baseball, Hockey...
...Otto Graham made a name for himself in the junior music circles of Waukegan, Ill., where his father was (and is) a high-school music director. In addition to piano and violin, which he still plays, Otto learned the oboe, English horn, French horn and cornet. Otto also had other talents which his father, an old semipro pitcher, approved and encouraged. He won high-school letters in football, basketball and baseball, found time to play tennis and golf and win awards in Junior Olympic track and field events around Chicago...
...middle of the twenties there was a jazz band at the College named the Gold Coast Orchestra, whose stock cornet was a lad named Sargent Kennedy '28. Twenty-three years later, College jazz was in the hands of a group with a shorter name: the Crimson Stompers. But Kennedy still dropped around to take a few licks at rehearsals. The only difference was that Kennedy was then Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Registrar of the University--highest position in the administrative hierarchy presently held by a member of the Reunion Class...