Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featured in the ebullient swingfest, which was furnished mostly by trumpets and clarinets, were an inspired drummer who performed on a wastebasket and a stick, and William G. Hewitt '38, who played the zither. The program included "Wintergreen", "Organ Grinder's Swing" and several Harvard songs, and ended with a triumphant snake-dance...
...lessons. At 13, he was helping support the family by playing at theatres and dances. At 15, he was concert-touring with his sister, a talented pianist. In 1915 Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort to compose. He concentrated on chamber music, also wrote settings for poems by Walt Whitman, ballad cycles, strange discordant operas with such names as Murderer, Women's Hope, The Nusch-Nuschi (for marionettes), Sancta Susanna...
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...transatlantic romance between a Paris singer and a U. S. bandleader (Gene Raymond). Its real purpose -that of punctuating a series of closeups of the star which could be exciting only to her dentist-is transcended occasionally by moments of brash comedy contributed by the _ band's mercurial drummer (Jack Oakie) and its sad-visaged Communist pianist (Mischa Auer...
Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...