Word: wintergreen
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...then amid intermixed cries of "Wintergreen" and "Sock it to 'em," the crowd broke...
Staging what press box observers called "its most colorful show yet," the Band performed a parody of the unlimited substitution rule as "exploited by certain major football powers." Also included in the football aspects of the Band's performance was a musical scrimmage between the Harvard Wintergreen's and the Army Shavetails...
...long time, and one looks as if it may move in on the "Hungry Five." This routine is called "Band-Aides," and consists of six Adams House men who wear red coats and a director who wears a white one. This band lines up, runs off formations, and plays "Wintergreen"; what makes it exceptional is that it manages to do all this without the benefit of instruments other than a sextet of raucous voices and a pocket-sized drum...
Leroy Anderson doesn't have time to play his trombone--or his tuba, double bass, organ or cello, for that matter--any more. But no one scems to mind. People who have heard "Wintergreen," "Fiddle-Faddle," or "Sleigh-Ride," are quite willing to settle for Anderson as a composer...
...teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period, in 1932, that Anderson made his Wintergreen arrangement for the Band's Army game show...