Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard University Orchestra (Pierian Sodality of 1808) will top off a successful season tonight in its annual concert at Paine Hall, conducted by Malcolm Holmes. Including eighteenth-century classics and products of Harvard College, the program opens with Gretry's Overture to "Le Magnifique," and Haydn's superb "Drum Roll" Symphony. The Mozart Serenata Notturna for string orchestra, string quartet, and tympani which follows, will have the expert collaboration of the Stradivarius String Quartet, and Buxtehude's organ Chaconne in E minor will have the collaboration of Malcolm Holmes, who has transcribed the work for orchestra. Closing the program...
...gigolos. Next he suggested they try to sprinkle their schedules with films that would appeal to the South American market, films that also gave a pleasant picture of life in the U. S. Perhaps, he added hopefully, they might send their stars south of the border now & then to drum up a little good will for the industry and the nation. The producers organized a group of advisory committees composed of Hollywood specialists. Examples: Committee on Visits to South America ,Committee on South American Film Facilities (to seek added outlets, encourage location trips there), Committee on Story Material...
...Europe and his manager, Noble Sissle (Shuffle Along), joined the 15th Regiment. The colonel made Europe band leader, raised $10,000 for instruments -30 reeds, a dozen or so brasses, two bull fiddles (for concerts). Leader Europe became a lieutenant, Sissle his drum major and top sergeant. The two of them were soon putting riffs in conventional marches, had the band blare blues to a fare-thee-well. When the 15th reached France, Europe's band was detailed to play for U. S. soldiers just back from the front lines...
...been the policy of the Corporation in the past never to let the stadium except on the request of the mayor of Boston, Bingham also pointed out. In 1931 Stanford played Dartmouth on Soldiers Field and last fall the American Legion drum and bugle corps used the field as a parade ground. Both times it was at the request of the mayor...
Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28, who directed the orchestra for nine years, has selected little known music for his concerts. Besides the Haydn Symphony No. 1 (the Drum Roll), the one well-known piece on the programs, the orchestra is rehearsing selections such as "Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb", written by Professor Edward E. Ballantine '07 and orchestrated by Robert U. Jameson '32, former Pierian president. A clever satire on the work of Schuber, Tschaikovsky, MacDowell, and Wagner, the work of the various composers is easily recognizable in the composition even by amateurs...