Word: drum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bass drum used by the Harvard Brass Band has been handsomely decorated with the college coat of arms and the words "Harvard College" above it in crimson. The work is that of Mr. F. H. Briggs...
...brass band, drum corps and police squad, or any other organization connected with the torchlight processions, desire to have their pictures taken, the photographic committee of the Senior Class will make arrangements with Mr. Notman for performing the work at any time or place as such organizations may wish. The pictures will be at the regular class rates, 65 cents a piece...
...students cheering heartily. Meantime, in Cambridge, and especially near the square and along Harvard street, the crowds of men began to collect in expectation of the coming fun, many amusing themselves with firing cannon crackers and Roman candles. About eleven o'clock the long fool was beaten on a drum by some one near Beck Hall and colored fires onall...
...Dwight, formerly editor of Dwights' Journal of Music; Mr. Apthrop, the well-known musical writer; George L. Osgood, who was conductor of the society; Frank D. Millet, whose fame now rests on his skill with the brush, while in college he won fame by his skilful handling of the drum-sticks; Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and Mr. E. H. Hastings, now manager of the Bijou Theatre, who played what in the society is familiarly called the "bull fiddle." The oldest living member is Gen. Henry K. Oliver (of the class of 1818) ex-mayor of Salem...
...London paper states that the choruses composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren for the recent performances in Greek at Cambridge and Eaton of the "Ajax" of Sophocles are in unison throughout, with accompaniment for harp (representing the lyre), and a small orchestra, reinforced by a drum. The music which the late Sir Sterndale Bennett was writing for the same tragedy is conceived more in the style of Mendelssohn's Greek tragedies ("Antigone" and "OEdipus") than in that adopted by his successor at Cambridge University. Only two pieces, unfortunately, were left complete - the overture and funeral march...