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...University Band has ordered a new bass drum, and expects delivery by the beginning of May. The 72-by-28-inch drum will be the largest in the United States, thus regaining the distinction temporarily lost to the University of Florida...
...afternoon, I listened to some of the music blaring out of the loudspeakers. A deep bass voice, accompanied by orchestra, was singing: "Labor makes you healthy, labor makes you strong. Labor makes the world go round." A battalion of uniformed 12-years olds, "Free German Youth", marched post on its way from school...
Amherst conductor Charles W. Ludington seems not to share Professor Woodworth's views. Largely because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close...
...University Band collected 1115 dimes last night in its drive to replace the deceased bass drum. Although the $121.71 collected so far represents less than a tenth of the $1500 goal set for replacing the Band's most famous asset, officials of the group were satisfied...
They're in mourning over at the Bandroom, for their Drum is dead. The eight-foot instrument, once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...