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When regular rehearsals begin tomorrow. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27, of Fall River, will take charge as leader, succeeding Addison Simmons '24, who was graduated in June. Keeley, who played the cornet last year, is the second man to become leader of the University Band in his Sophomore year...
...activities. Edwin Franko Goldman used to conduct his white-winged, leather-throated forces on the green at Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand attended the first concert. A new stand and sounding board, the gift of Elkan Naumberg, sends the sound for hundreds of yards. The expenses...
...Colonel Miner's, from The Prophet, Meerbeer Morris Dance. Noble Solo Selected Springtime: Valse Intermezzo. Drumm March: Harvard's Own. Simmens Spanish Suite: Safranek 1. Don Quixote 2. Duleinea March: El Capitan. Sousa Procession of Bacchus: Delibes From the ballet Sylvia March: Our Director, Bigelow Love Song. Doud Solo Cornet: Mr. Hugo L. Bair. '25 Suito: Sigurd Jorsalfar. Grieg 1. Vorspiel 2. Borghild's Dream 3. Triumphal March Fair Harvard
...Miner's Rosencranz Coronation March from The Prophet Mayerbeer Morris Dance Noble Springtime: Valse Intermezzo Drumm March: Harvard's Own Simmons Spanish Suite: Safranek 1. Don Quixote 2. Dulcinea March: El Captain Sousa Procession of Bacchus From the Ballet Sylvia Delibes March: Our Director Bigelow Love Song Doud Solo Cornet: Mr. Hugo L. Blair '25 Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar Grieg 1. Vorspiel
...word jazz, it is stated, is a corruption of the word " razz." Years ago a curious New Orleans " coon orchestra " called itself Razz's Band. It was an aggregation of four pieces, a baritone horn, a cornet, a trombone and an instrument something like a clarionet in shape but made out of the wood of the chinaberry tree. This strange instrument can be used only while the sap is in the wood, and after a few weeks of wear it must be thrown away. It is best made by Southern Negroes. The four musicians of Razz's Band...