Word: drillwork
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...they concentrate hard, can probably glean from Dickson's anecdotes some sense of the excitement it must have been to work closely with Fiedler over the years, and feel the star-watcher's thrill at the Pops parade of brilliant guest performers; those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what excitement and color come through does so painfully, in spite of Dickson's uncertain, cliche-ridden style...
...parade should come to a half at some spacious intersection, the music-makers plan to exhibit some of their flashy drillwork a la Soldiers Field, breaking from block formation to a semicircle and striking up a service medley...
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