Word: medleyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Band, whose sterling performances have been helping Crimson rooters waft their sorrows all fall, will come up another winner this weekend with a new, and "unusually good" Princeton medley...
John A. Finnegan '47, who composed the recent Holy Cross medley and who has done six such orchestrations for the hand, added the new number to the Crimson repertoire...
...were a little annoyed at the interruption of our medley last year, and since the Dartmouth boys seem to get more enjoyment, from interrupting us than from listening to us, we'll concentrate our attention this week on those who appreciate us," Finney said in explaining the band's decision...
...next week, Harvard played Army. Since the Dartmouth Medley had met with great crowd approval, Anderson decided to present another. He took a tune from the George Gershwin hit musical "Of Thee I Sing", mixed in well-known melodies from Ivy League college songs, and produced "Wintergreen." It met with so much success that it has since become the closest thing to a theme song the band has in its repertoire...
...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...