Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year are attempt was made to get something new; one of the most important innovations in the Band was the addition of two cymbal players to the regular kinds of musicians. Another innovation this season was the addition of another drum-major to the membership, Paul Metcalf, a schoolboy, who wielded a baton for the first time shortly after the Bates game and under the tutelage of the leader of the Band, G. V. Slade '32, learned to manipulate it sufficiently well so that he made his appearance with the Band in the Dartmouth game...
...Philadelphians in Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...evening. In Detroit, young women dressed in the manner of cinematic French peasantry served doughnuts in a model French village. Mascot gila monsters, rattlesnakes, burros, skunks were displayed all over town. One man had his eye knocked out playing with a trick camera. Three hundred and fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving...
...there were great cascading bouquets. There were laughing faces and broken hearts and heels. There were immaculate dress shirts, and a soiled white dress. There was the fanfare of an orchestra and the husky croon of a singer. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There was the ecstacy of a first dance, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was the lonely terrace and the crowded ballroom. There were long, embrassing conversations; there were short, embrassing silences. There were scrambled eggs and Grade A milk. There were those who cut in and those...
...definitely announced that the band will make the trip to West Point, accompanied by its large bass drum and baby-carriage wheels...