Word: cronauer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals out of their own pockets. "The hardest job is to convince people that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary." The men of the Seventh Army Symphony are required to perform no Army duties "except to wear the uniform properly," and except for their own tubas, trumpets and trombones they hear...