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...Rice has coached the banjo and mandolin groups of the clubs and P. A. Maheffy has trained the Vocal Club...
About thirty-five men from the Banjo Club, Gold Coast Orchestra, and Mandolin Clubs with a few of the specialty men will leave for Williamstown at noon on Saturday, March 14, by bus and private car. Upon arrival, they will be received and entertained until the performance in the evening. This is to be a joint concert, sponsored by the Williams Musical Clubs, and the program will be identical with the selections played at Roxbury, with the omission of the vocal club numbers. The group will spend the night in various dormitories and fraternity houses, before the return on Sunday...
...ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
...twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...program of the vocal club, whose selections will be interspersed throughout the concert, will include "Glorious Forever", by Rachmaninoff: "Chorus of Bacchantes", by Gounod, from "Philemon and Bancus"; "Longshoreman"; "Schneider's Band"; "Johnny Harvard"; and "Old Man Noah". The Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange...