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From the gathering at City Hall in the morning, through the streets of Boston to the historic square--"if we live that long"--the band will treat the onlookers to old favorites by Sousa, Lithgow, Hall, and others, as well as some lesser-known marches. Prokoffief and Milhand will be conspicuous by their absence when the brass biares forth such martial strains as R. B. Hall's "S.I.B.A. March," which the band fondly dedicates to the Staten Island Boilermakers' Association...
...program was notable for its innovations. Prokotieff's "March, Op. 99," which called for and received a great deal of refinement of interpretation especially by the trumpets made its New England debut, and Milhand's "Suite Francaise" had been played in this country only twice before. Two pleasant surprises were the muted trumpet sole in Morton Gould's "Pavanue," and the brass and reed choir effects in "Prayer of Thanksgiving." One of the high points in the way of intricate original arranging for which the Band is famous, was reached in the "Strike Up The Band" scoring for the clarinets...
When the University Band exhibits its new classical reportoirs tomorrow evening in Sanders Theatre, it will mark a turning point in a long musical career. Prokofieff and Shostakovitch, Milhand and Coates, are a far cry from gridfron "compabs" and fight cheers, but "the best in the business" has transformed a "Saturday afternoon miracle" into a Sanders concert...
Harvard Medley, by Anderson: "Suite Francaise," by Darius Milhand; Yale Medley, by Anderson; "Pavanne," by Morton Gould, "March," Op. 99, by Serge Prokefieff...
Presentations by Harvard alone will include two 17th century psalms, "Miserere," by Allegri, and Sweelinck's "Psalm 134," and a modern musical arrangement of the 121st psalm, composed especially for the Harvard Glee Club by Darius Milhand, inspired by the club's European tour in 1921. A special group of Harvard singers will offer three Mozart canons...