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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he had graduated, Anderson continued to work with the band, directing and, at times writing and arranging music. For the Dartmouth game in 1932, he made his first arrangement of college tunes in medley form...
...their greatest show up to today, the Tercentary Celebration in 1936, the band played for the first time Anderson's specially arranged Harvard medley. "Tercentenaria." At the closing celebration, the musicians climbed aboard a barge, and introduced the piece to cheering onshore crowds while sailing down the Charles River past the Andering sky made it one of the most spectacular productions of the decade...
...only did the band continue to play after the season, recording the Ivy League Album in December, but they started their first series of Spring concerts, under Holmes's direction...
...also probably the best ever here, since, with a few more rehearsals it may even out-play the 1949 band that made the "Half Time" album last year. Not one musical error was made on the recordings; Wintergreen was re-recorded when slight defeets showed in the first cutting so the album would be as near perfect as possible...
Among the 100 returning handsmen is Thomas L. Reynolds '20, founder and director of the first band in 1919, and nine of his original 45-piece group. This is the first full scale reunton of the Band Club, which was reorganized last year...