Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...enigma of the hour, the whereabouts of the band's large drum, was solved last night when the instrument, which was thought to have been borrowed by Yale students, was found resting safely in its usual place in the Dillon Field House. It arrived safely, having been shipped on by authorities of the Yale Athletic Association...
...drum's custodians, who had difficulty in accounting for even their own movements over the weekend, were overjoyed to hear of the instrument's safe arrival. It is suspected that the story of the loss was spread by playful members of the band...
With increasing fear that Yale has taken revenge for the theft of Handsome Dan, II, which occurred last year, the University Band is now making efforts to locate its big drum which has been missing since last Saturday afternoon. The two custodians of the drum are divided in their opinions of its location, one being sure that it must be safe in the South Station, the other, remembering threats by Yale men, feels that a thorough search of the Yale campus might be effective in locating the instrument...
Riding on a special box-car which had to be obtained so that the drum could be inserted at all, the instrument arrived in New Haven Saturday morning. After the game the drum was locked up at the field-house, but when the man who was to get the instrument called for it, he was unable to find it. If the drum is not found in the South Station, the scene of operations will be shifted to New Haven, and the search will continue until the drum is found...