Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were usually 80 or 90 men in the stands on Saturday afternoons. Among them were Malcolm H. Holmes, '28, the band's present director, and Leroy Anderson '28, now a famous arranger. Holmes banged the base drum at Soldiers Field, but played the violin in the orchestra at other times...
Although he had graduated, Anderson continued to work with the band, directing and, at times writing and arranging music. For the Dartmouth game in 1932, he made his first arrangement of college tunes in medley form...
...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...
...Manhattan last week, a bouncy brunette from Fond du Lac, Wis. (pop. 27,209) had a wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind...
Specially arranged medleys, written by Leroy Anderson '29 and John A. Finnegan '47 will continue to be a basic part of half-time presentations this year. At today's game, however, there will be more than the usual amount of drill because Cornell's band is not coming to Cambridge this season...