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...named Molly and a funeral parade of drums and drummers draped in black featured the band's newest effort to replace its deceased drum, yesterday noon at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cow Highlights Dimes Drive | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...effort collected $17.50 on the spot, to push the total over $500. But the band still needs $300 to pay for the new drum ordered two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cow Highlights Dimes Drive | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...band also reported no response to its request that the Smithsonian Institute make room for the old drum, which expired last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cow Highlights Dimes Drive | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...exist only as a single line of notes with no further indications. The group chosen was played, as intended, by whatever instrumentalists happened to be available, in this case Gillian Adams and Chester Pearlman, recorders; Mary Davidoff, viol; and John Hollander, lute. The added improvised percussion parts for hand drum, tamborine and triangle were totally authentic. The players also performed two of the earliest polyphonic instrumental pieces...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Adams House Musical Society | 2/18/1955 | See Source »

Pioneering as the first American jazz bandleader ever to go jamming around Israel, drum-busting Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton tortured his tom-toms in Tel Aviv, had frenetic listeners in the aisles stomping out the Horn, Israel's most popular folk dance. After one concert, during which some 100 cops hooked arms to bar gate-crashers from the hall, rhythm-happy Hampton laid down his drumsticks and gasped: "Man, in a country that's younger than jazz itself, these Israeli cats have sure growed fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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