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...large oil containers. He strikes a few of the notes with thin, rubber-tipped metal mallets and winces when the tone doesn't sound quite right. "It is tough just getting the letters straight," he says as he tries to play the first bar of When the Saints Go Marchin' In. A number of his classmates and a few of his teachers at the Choate Rosemary Hall school are also struggling, hoping to make some sense of the industrial-looking instruments, which were brought to Connecticut from the South Bronx by members of the Alexander Burger Intermediate School 139 senior...
...high-kick through New York, New York. When Minicucci calls for the 1991 Choate Rosemary Hall steel band, the audience yells and chants the names of various performers as they make their way to the stage for a fast-paced and well-performed rendition of When the Saints Go Marchin' In. "There was pressure," Shimizuishi admits as he leaves the stage to the cheers of his classmates. "I was afraid I would mess up, but it was fun. It went well...
...Stomping at the Savoy," which didn't quite cut it. But even if you knew what to do, Lester Lanvine and his Hat Throwing Orchestra changed songs every three minutes, and they played the same damn songs over and over. By the ninth rendition of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In," I was ready to transfer to Yale...
...sounds of Phil Ochs were in your head and drove onward in a persistent fugue, calling to mind so many teach-ins, marches, gestures. "I ain't a marchin anymore"--"One more parade"--and you entered the Brattle; it was crowded, pulsing to some mystical rhythm, and the beautiful people were there, out of winter's woodwork for the afternoon's happening...
...traveled and you've had the home exposure Whitey has, then of course you have equal opportunity. But have I had that?" Replies the "father": "Ever stop to think you just weren't qualified for that job? That you weren't qualified because you were out marchin' with signs when you should have been in the classroom...