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His tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles...
To swell his repertory, Goldman has composed 85 marches himself. Most popular of his marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he...
Died. Arthur Pryor, 71, veteran bandmaster, once-famed trombonist, composer of some 300 marches, operettas, "novelties" (The Whistler & His Dog, Jingaboo, On Jersey Shore); of a stroke; in West Long Branch, N.J. A boy musician, he played an estimated 10,000 solos with Sousa's Band, took over his...
Over a front that stretched wide to north and south of the Ukraine's industrial capital, Timoshenko's army rammed the enemy with the greatest concentration of tanks and artillery the German had yet felt on the Eastern Front. The German had to fall back before the assault...
To this whimsical tale, which marches like the King of France up to the inaudible stamp, then back again, Thompson added a fresh, unaffected, transparent score packed with singable melody. Listeners, noting the conventional harmonies, the archaic touches, the occasional flavor of Handel's music, decided that Thompson in...