The Bass Drum Journal March 2014 of The Harvard University B and Vol. 94 No. 1 To the Age that is Waiting Before ’ve always wondered how much of my love of the Band is tied to my family. IWhich is a little funny when you consider just how far away I travelled for school to avoid my family (although just in case my mom and dad are reading this: I’m only kidding guys! Love you both!). At this point in my life, still not yet even three- quarters of the way through my college career, it’s already incredibly difficult to imagine back to my freshman year to a time before I felt like I was a part of Band, which I suppose just reinforces my point. I can try and hazard some guesses, though. The Band Room is the closest thing to my living room that I have experienced on campus. Everything about it harkens back to my upbringing, from the comfy couches where I relax or do homework, to the abundance of pictures across the walls, to the memorabilia strewn about the room, to a TV for group movie nights Having a Jolly Good Time! The Band frolicks in front of and video games, and more importantly, Memorial Church before the game against Dartmouth. to an ever-present group of people who I love to be around and who make me feel known as reunions for generations of people to with them over the course of the year. at home. Although I guess that in the case come together. Speaking of which,this fall brings And what a year it should be! The Reunion of my family, part of that may have been about the 95th anniversary of the Band, and with it, will be just one highlight from what looks biological obligation on their part (still our 95th reunion. It’s scheduled for our Columbus to be 12 months bursting with excitement, kidding!). Day weekend (October 10th through 12th) game gigs, trips, music, and memories. Ally, Ian, Like with my family, which was against Cornell, and several plans for big things are Louis, Kim, and Katie set a high benchmark borderline nomadic between our frequent already afoot. The most notable will be the honoring for a staff to live up to, but Ian (now in moves and car trips, some of my favorite of longtime Director and newly-minted Director his second term), Annie, Scott, Garrett, memories come from my travels with the Emeritus Tom Everett, but there will be plenty of and I are eager to meet the challenge. We Band. This year has continued the trend other fun things along the way. Make sure to check will continue to make Band the exciting, with three successful road trips in the fall out our website, www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hub/95th/, to welcoming family that captivated us when for football season (to Ithaca, New York RSVP for it or find more information. Also, another we joined. Hopefully we get to give back City, and the wretched hive of scum great resource for staying up-to-date is our and share that experience with all of you and villainy that is New Haven), alumni newsletter, which will not only this fall. Let us know if you want to stop with highlights like giant Pokéballs be covering the reunion, but also the by and see us at a gig, and don’t forget to at Cornell and a large Viking general Band shenanigans over the RSVP for the Reunion! ship hunting a yale dragon. coming year. Email manager@ For whatever those weekends harvardband.org if you are at all INC, lacked in sleep, they made up for interested in getting subscribed. in memories. Speaking of large legacies to On top of that, over the last celebrate in the coming year, another few years, we’ve gotten to long-time band institution will be travel further than ever honored this fall: Bertha. Yes, our before as the Band has quinquagenarian bass drum Theo Gerome ’15 currently serves the accompany the basketball team Theo Gerome has seen better days, and so plans Band as Manager for 2013-2014. He is an on their unprecedented runs to Manager to create Bertha Mark III are well Applied Mathematics concentrator from NCAA March Madness. After a under way. Barring the onslaught Houston, Texas. trip to Albuquerque my freshman year, the of bad luck, it should be here by this football season, Band extended its footprint even further just in time for the reunion. Look for more on that nside with a triumph in Salt Lake City. We even in the coming months. I ... became minor celebrities after a picture Moving from a celebration of the past to an excited Drill Master’s Report ... 2 of us celebrating Harvard’s second round anticipation of the future, the Band family has grown Over the River and... 3 upset last year went viral, with images of in plenty other ways in the past year. The class of new The Legend of the bandies recruited this fall (numbering some forty- us appearing on websites like the New York Katzenjammer... 4 Times and Fox Sports, and entire articles strong) has been one of my favorite groups of people focusing on HUB on major national sports that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Their Why Schneider... 5 sites like Grantland and Deadspin (some of cheery dispositions, incredible wit, and boundless Special Thanks... 5 which still show up on the first page of a enthusiasm for everything has brightened my day Reunion Reminder ... 6 countless times this school year, and I know they will Google search for “Harvard Band”). Conductor’s Corner... 7 And like my family, the Band holds set an incredible course for HUB over the next few periodic massive gatherings, otherwise years. I highly look forward to working and playing Student Awards... 7 Check out our website for a digital copy of the Bass Drum Journal and band updates! www.harvardband.org I Think, Therefore I Band his past year was full of tremendous achievements. The Men’s Basketball team made headlines with their first ever NCAA Tour- nament win in a massive upset of the New Mexico Lobos, and the football team finished their season off strong with a rout of TyAle and a serendipitous share of the Ivy title. All the while, the Band marched, or should I say, walked at roughly the same pace, steadfastly forward. We continued to support Harvard both on and off the field, as the Band has done throughout its storied 95-year his- tory. How did we do this? Let me count the ways: Men’s Ice Hockey vs. Princeton Band laid out newly discovered (Tigers 2, Crimson 1) evidence proving that the HUB The Band took to the ice at Bright- had actually fought alongside Landry Hockey Center for a game Washington in the American of GIANT CURLING, a titanic Revolution.[citation needed] take on an already titanic winter We described the Band’s heroic sport, as indicated by the type- achievements (it was a HUB setting in all caps. With the Band percussionist at Concord who lined up as the track, Prop Crew fired the “rimshot heard ‘round slid down the ice, sweeping an the world”) as well as our set- enormous curling stone from one backs—let’s just say that our end to the other. Though we start- flutes learned the hard way that ed just a bit too late to qualify for you should never bring a fife to Sochi, we are confident that GI- a gunfight. ANT CURLING will soon be a Winter Olympics staple. Resistless Our Team Sweeps Goalward! @ yAle The Harvard University Vikings charge head on (Crimson 34, bulldogs 7) to combat the Beastly Bulldog. vs. Brown Our final and biggest show (Bears 23, Crimson 41) mately, we realized that despite our many of the year took the form of a In our first football halftime show of the differences, those Princetonians are pretty Viking saga. In order to vanquish a dragon year, the Band had our dreams of finally alright. to the south, the Band is send on a quest hitting it big crushed when we realized that across the barren wastes of Connecticut to Harvard’s Capital Campaign is not in fact vs. Dartmouth the even barren-er wastes of New Haven. a $6.5 billion fundraiser entirely for us. (Big Green 21, Crimson 24) Upon arrival, the Band is beset by a tre- Nevertheless, we mused about the motives The Band took to the field in celebration of mendous, blue, filthily-laundered dragon, of big-time donors like “Dolla Dolla” Bill the Red Sox’s 2013 World Series win, but but with little difficulty, the dragon is slain. Gates, and even daydreamed about what we our homage to their Sox-cess was cut short Prop Crew supplied a set of truly impres- could do with those billions, from landing a when our conductor was abducted from the sive props: a Viking ship with sail, a gigan- band on the moon to curing insomnia once podium by mysterious kidnappers tic axe, and of course the dragon, complete and for all. who were definitely not just with bright crimson “entrails” that erupted Prop Crew members upon its defeat. @ Cornell (Crimson 34, Big Red 24) in disguise. It was Our odyssey to Ithaca culminated in a a classic whodunit, All in all, it was a great year. I have to show that commemorated the release of the and we went through thank my Prop Crew Managers, Ellen much-anticipated sixth generation of Poké- all the likely sus- Robo and Eloise Wheeler for mon games. Since there are eight Pokémon pects, from Cardi- their ability to consistently gyms and eight Ivy League schools, we nals fans to aliens, complement my shows with set out to determine which Pokémon type only to find out creative, visually engaging is best embodied by each Ivy. Not wanting that the real culprits props, and also my Assistant to make anyone feel unimportant, we made were freshmen Drill Master, Mason Marek, sure to mention every Ivy: Harvard, yAle, who were annoyed who charted every- Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, and by the Band’s ear- thing from the Mi- Princeton. That’s all of them, right? ly-morning perfor- crosoft logo to a vi- mances before football king helmet, not to vs. Lafayette (Leopards 16, Crimson 35) games. In a shameless mention just about Inspired by the “Nobel” achievement of recruitment ploy, we every four-letter Harvard Professor Emeritus Martin Kar- gave these “abduc- word in the English plus, the Band decided to pursue our own tors” some advice: if language, with com- Nobel Prize in a science-themed halftime you can’t beat ‘em, join mendable precision. show. We set our sights on the Chemistry ‘em. Ian Magillivray I’d also like to thank the Prize and even conducted some on-field Drill Master rest of my staff—Ally, experiments with dry ice and water. When @ Columbia Louis, Kim, and Katie— that didn’t net us a Nobel, we figured that (Crimson 34, Lions 0) for all that they’ve done, not only for my we’d probably be better off just making up Amidst Harvard’s second straight shutout of sake, but for that of the Band as a whole. our own Nobel Prize. We created the Nobel the Lions, the Band waxed poetic for a half- And yet, my time as Drill Master is not Prize in Spelling, but even that went sour time show in limericks, covering three top- quite done. Another football season waits when, despite our best efforts, we mis- ics each with two limericks apiece. First, we just around the corner, and it is my goal to spelled “spell”...twice. foreshadowed yAle with a story of a Viking see that it is even better than the last. After voyage to NYC. Then, we cast ourselves all, the Band always wins, and that leaves vs. Princeton (Tigers 51, Crimson 48) as Marvel’s Thor, heading to New York to us nowhere to go but up. The Band looked to Bill Watterson’s classic rescue Columbia from the clutches of New INC, Calvin and Hobbes comics for a feel-good Haven. Finally, we talked of sending a HUB show that paired us with Princeton as the rocket to space, only to realize that we had titular duo. We imagined ourselves in some mistakenly thought that Harvard’s new edX of the pair’s quintessential adventures, like program was a space exploration initiative those of the intrepid, intergalactic Space- called “spaceX”. man Spiff. We even tried to take a toboggan Ian Magillivray ‘15 was Drill Master from 2012-2013. He will continue his position ride, but unfortunately, we couldn’t find a vs. Penn (Quakers 30, Crimson 38) for the next year as well. He is a Philosophy hill that was big enough to boggan. Ulti- In an act of historical revisionism, the concentrator, from Columbiana, Ohio. 2 Illegitimum non Carborundum! Over the River and... Still Under the Lincoln Tunnel UB’s last moments ing that my prowess over weather extended bit of of panic to traffic (basically the same thing), “We’ll Htravel un- when the make it, because I say so!” I stubbornly de- der my tenure as bus driver clared. Drum Major, to would And we did! After New York City for mysteri- narrowly avoiding the Harvard Club ously pull one wrong turn of New York Con- over. Calls on 39th street, 8.5 cert, was quite the from bus hours after call journey. In fact, it #2 would and about 209.785 was quite the jour- rain in miles from the ney before we even “Are you Band Room, pulled away from Basketball Season! The Band dons a different ok?! Is the we pulled up uniform whilst cheering on the basketball teams dur- Mount Auburn. bus ok? and unpacked ing the winter and spring season. Having made call That was with lightening several hours earlier than typical for fear of a very controlled stop, but I thought I would speed. Thrilled NYC traffic, we were expecting a relaxing just check in.” However, as our lovely bus to be off the bus, journey. But one of the buses was missing! driver sidled through the isle, I was able to bandies pulled to- After a deal of phone tag, the location of answer each concerned bandie, “Only na- gether and unpacked bus #3 was discovered to be the mechanic. ture calling!” “Wait, what, she’s on the other and set up as a well- Not promising. line? How oiled machine – we Less promising could I had, after all, had an was that through have for- entire season to practice. further phone tag gotten the Even with time to spare (did I mention bus dis- for Louis to lead a lovely middle school patchers warm-up, we lined up to gym was not a name was make our en- high point? I was nature?” trance once WE Kim Johansson ill prepared for “No, no, completed their Drum Major any sort of tag) our dear portion of the our driver in- Mother program. Mark checked in during the brief dicated that he nature intermission in-between, “You’re already didn’t know the called lined up! I checked the warm-up room, and name or location The Band in Spokane! upon the thought I had lost you guys!” Following of the mechanic. Mechanic Twenty Bandies travelled to bus driver.” Mys- chuckles, we marched in and did what we Washington over the spring holidays with no business sign: cost tery solved, Scoo- had traveled far and far to do: spread Har- to cheer the Crimson in the playoffs. efficient? We were reassured by Snack earned, vard spirit, and support the university on that the tune-up would be brief, however. we were able to take a brief break and get a Harvard-Yale weekend! Just in case, Mark and the Wind Ensemble little food into travel-weary bandies. Leading the band for the past year has led left, since they were slated to perform first. On the road in me on many jour- Content to devour their 10:30am Felipe’s Connecticut, an- neys, the above steak burritos with extra cheese on the Band other call came in. both the most Room couch, the bandies were exceedingly Would things stop harrowing by far patient. Myself, not so much. Because I happening if we and in the run- lacked the physical education lessons in tag, got rid of our new- ning for the most I instead used the principles taught to Mas- fangled cell phones, hilarious. The sachusetts drivers in driver’s ed. Shortly af- I began to wonder. tremendous good ter the WE was on its way, the bus left the An accident had humor, patience, mechanic…to be stuck in traffic. How far happened some- and resourceful- away? Unclear. Passing an intersection that where up the high- ness of bandies I could put into google maps? No intersec- way (all these calls never ceased to tions. After waiting another hour as though from places with warm my heart. in the dark ages, when there were not only no road signs!) and Not only is the no GPS systems but also no road signs, the vehicles were on Prop Crew Tomfoolery! Engaging in impish experience I had fun during field rehearsal is one of the many bus arrived! Hooray! Bandies rejoiced and fire, with multiple as Drum Major specialties of our beloved Prop Crew. transferred themselves and their burritos to lane closures. One one I will cher- the bus. Fortunately, no one but myself and executive decision to modify our travel ish, but the community of the Harvard Uni- our lovely Student Conductor Louis Cop- route later, and we wound up at a complete versity Band is one I look forward to being persmith stop in traffic in the a part of even as I broach grownup-hood. were con- Lincoln Tunnel, Having finally gotten a primer in tag cerned the counting down the from the low brass, I know I’ll be able to suspicious- minutes until we had ly long hoped to arrive at INC, amount of the Harvard Club for time it took our Concert. Only at for the bus this point, bathed in to switch a sickly red glow of out of neu- headlights, did ban- tral. dies begin to exhibit Kimberly Johansson ’15 was Drum Major Prior to signs of unrest. “Six from 2012 to 2013. She is a Chemical and our rest hours is a long time ockey season Physical Biology concentrator from Fal- stop, there The Trumpets’ Love of Lemurs! H to be on a bus” “Isn’t (or any season for that matter) is the ideal time mouth, Massachusettes were only a to pay tribute to these amazing animals. the WE starting their couple brief part soon?”….Decid- Bass Drum Journal 2014 3 Tribute to Laura “Katzenjammer” Katz ooking back over the past year in horns, comes from her home state of New AND-ONLY-THERE-WILL-BE-NO- Band, one of my biggest highlights Jersey. The individual parts of Katzenjam- OTHER-TO-YALE-WITH-HELL POOP, Lwas the Katzenjammer Prelude. mer require a good deal of technical skill to was also big hit. Despite an initial dis- Last spring, we received word from a group play. The trumpets enter the lower strato- claimer telling us that, similar to the of Crusties looking to find a way to memo- sphere while the trombones dart through Vince Lombardi Memorial Truck Stop, we rialize their friend and fellow bandie Janet lightning-fast runs. The percussion is con- shouldn’t get our hopes up for this poop, Katz ’77, who sadly passed away in Janu- stantly kept on their toes and off the beat. Janet still wrote a killer poop. ary of 2012. The idea was to commission Katzenjammer was a difficult piece to Even after three decades the an original fanfare, including elements of learn, but we stuck with it in order to jokes weren’t completely Janet’s life to keep her memory and con- premier the work at the Montage Con- stale. Or maybe stale humor, nection to the Harvard Band alive. cert. The brass and the percussion all like hipster glasses, just never Working with a committee of interested held extra sectionals to work on the went out of fashion with bandies, we eventually settled on Jim Ste- most difficult parts, and we then the Harvard Band. phenson as a composer. Jim, the Composer- rehearsed as After weeks in-Residence at the Lake Forest Symphony, an ensemble of practice, has composed several notable works for to fit it all it was finally both brass ensembles and orchestras—I’m together. A time to play the particularly fond of his second Trumpet few weeks Katzenjammer Concerto. Jim has deep ties to the Boston before the Prelude at the area, and studied trumpet performance at concert, the Montage the New England Conservatory. piece started to come into Concert. Jim While our original commission was for a focus. The many different juxtapo- Stephenson short fanfare, the piece that Jim composed sitions in the piece can sound odd flew into Boston for us ended up being much more. Rather at first, but with some practice, to hear the premier, than being a quick fanfare, the Katzenjam- we were able to hear how they Louis Coppersmith and took the time mer Prelude is a full-fledged concert piece fit together. Sondheim and Student Conductor to listen to a run- for brass and percussion. Spanning five Springsteen might not be the through of the piece minutes, it combines twisting rhythms, ex- most obvious of musical bedfellows, but before the concert and give a quick pep citing punches, and expressive melodies. Jim Stephenson found a way to brilliantly talk. The concert itself was is still a bit of The work is exuberant, reflective, humor- blend the two. a blur in my mind—I was caught up in a ous, and challenging—the different parts of To help the band get a better sense of Ja- cloud of nerves and adrenaline—but I do the piece are complex and wide-ranging. In net and her time as an undergraduate, Laura remember what a rush it was when we hit short, Katzenjammer was out of the band’s Trumbull ‘77 sent along a few mementos the final chord. usual comfort zone. to the band. We received several photos of In all, the Katzenjammer Prelude was a The work opens with a juxtaposition of Janet, as well as a poop sheet she authored worthwhile challenge. The piece served as Sondheim, Springsteen, Bartok, and the for the Game from 1975. It was fascinat- a tribute to a beloved crustie and a connec- Harvard Band. The work takes its inspira- ing to see the similarities between the band tion to our past. Beyond the value that I tion from today and the hope Katzenjammer holds for those know various “old band” knew Laura Katz, the piece also holds a elements that crusties particular significance to me. The hours of Janet’s seem to be so I spent learning, rehearsing, and perform- life, com- fond of. Some ing the work have left an indelible mark on bining things have my memory. Beyond the melodies that still several changed very get stuck in my head, the piece serves as melodies little: crimson a reminder of the strong ties that the Band that al- blazers and maintains among its members, past and lude in hipster glass- present. some way es are still INC, or another in style, and to Janet. even though A quota- the band room tion from is no longer on 2012 to 2013 Senior Staff! The staff enjoys one last Sondheim’s hoot in front of Memorial Church. Prescott Street, Sweeney we still have Louis Coppersmith ‘14 was Student Todd represents London, where Janet lived, many of the same road signs on the walls. Conductor from 2012-2013. He is a Music and the riff from Born to Run, given to the The poop, succinctly titled THE-ONE- concentrator from Phoenix, Arizona. Want to come to a gig? Got Alumni News? Contact the Band! Address: 74 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138-5051 Phone: 617-496-BAND (2263) Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.harvardband.org

Keep up with us on Facebook and Twitter! Hockey Season! The Band continues its tradition of travelling to Beanpot with Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harvard-University- the Crimson Hockey Team during the Band/102780311230 Winter Sports Season. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/harvardband 3 Illegitimum non Carborundum! Just a Small Town Girl, Living in a Bandie World remember the exact moment that I re- of these things and alized I wanted to be Schneider. Well, more are what you I maybe not the exact moment—it was get when you mix the more of a gradual realization. But it did Harvard University happen in those first couple of weeks after Band with Professor I joined the Band as a freshman. It also co- Schneider’s Silver incided with my realization that the Har- Cornet Band. vard University Band is more than just a My first couple of music group. years in Band, I al- To be completely honest, when I came ways found myself to college I had no intention of joining the drawn to the Schnei- Band. I played bari sax in high school, but ders. They were al- I was by no means serious about it. I did ways the people who want to stay involved in music somehow, wanted to be every- but I figured I’d join a choir or orchestra. one’s friend, Carrying on Tradition The Schneider position is passed down with Then, during my first week here at and everyone a kiss, a shower of ginger ale and Harvard, on my way out of Annen- wanted to be the backdrop of Harvard pummeling yAle. berg, I was accosted by an enthu- their friend, wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww siastic and friendly Will Ramsey even the farmgirls from The Band would like to in a crimson blazer. Despite Wisconsin. It is because of having no strong desire to join Schneider and the Schnei- express sincere thanks to what I thought was a march- der Band that I found a our 2013 Anderson Society ing band, I wel- coming place, not Members: could not just within resist the the Band, Mrs. Elaine Gilde chance but at Har- Ms. Elaine B. Murphy to wear that vard in Ms. Wendy Livingston blazer, and I signed up for an gen- eral. There Mr. Christopher Clark audition. have been times here that Mr. & Mrs. Paul and My first days in the Band Katie Wendorf I’ve felt like I didn’t belong, were pretty tentative, as was Schneider but all that goes away with Janet Gerome much of my Harvard experi- the Band. Because of the Mr. James Robo ence at first. How was this rural Wisconsin immense hospitality, love, and warmth Mrs. Meredith Trim girl supposed to have anything in com- shown me by generations of Bandies and Mrs. Carol Miller mon with someone on the big, scary, East Schneiders, I wanted to do my part to Coast? It wasn’t long until I realized that make sure every member of the Harvard Mr. Timur Kaya Yontar the Band was accepting of everyone— University Band would feel welcome and Mr. Timothy E. Feige even me! And despite making fun of the find a place they fit in. Mr. Peter Strauss way I say “bag” and my immense love for Plus, I’ve always thought I looked good Mr. Barry Furze cheese curds, they really did like me for in green. Mr. Scott Berney who I am. :) What does all this have to do with be- Dr. Joseph E. Gootenberg ing Schneider? Well, let’s just say I didn’t INC&PVP, Mr. Kennichi Takeshita stick with the Band for the music. Sure, Mr. John Connolly Jr. I love playing some Ten Thou or rockin’ Mr. Thomas G. Stemberg out to a little Katy Perry from time to time, but that’s just an added perk. What made Mr. Janice M. Mulqueeny me love the Band was the friendship, the Mr. Paul Thomas Tremoulet raucous times, the humor with various Mr. Jonathan Quick degrees of subtlety, the bizarre traditions Katie Wendorf ‘14 was Schneider from 2012- Mr. Hugh Moffett on and off the field, the innocuous rebel- 2013. She is a Chemistry concentrator from Viroqua, Wisconsin. Mr. Dennis Lewis lion…just the pure unadulterated fun. All wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Harvard University Band Staff 2013-2014 Senior Staff Junior Staff Andy Li ‘17 -- Instruments Manager Theo Gerome ‘15 -- Manager Ellen Robo ‘16 -- Treasurer Paul Smith ‘17 -- External Ian MacGillivray ‘15 -- Drill Master Bo Choi ‘17 -- Alumni & PR/Reunion Nick Ciulla ‘16 -- Internal Annie Rak ‘16 -- Student Conductor Mike Ross ‘16 -- Mailing & Merchandise Eloise Wheeler ‘16 -- Schwartz Scott Johnson ‘16 -- Drum Major Paul Meosky ‘16 -- Reunion Yukiye Koide ‘17 -- Weisse Garrett Maron ‘16 -- Schneider Antuan Tran ’17 -- Webmaster Joe Palana ‘17 -- Weisse Jamie Dana ‘16 -- ADM Max Gersh ‘16 -- Weisse Section Leaders Gianina Yumul ‘16 - Prop Crew Caroline Rakus-Wojciechowski ‘17-- Emily Donaldson ‘17 -- Flute Alex Cox ‘16 -- Cinematographer blogtographer Cara Dowell ‘15 -- Clarinet Matt DiSorbo ‘17 -- Recruit & Postering Maryrose Robson ‘17 -- Sax Director sben versen rumpet Justin Cavitt ‘17 -- Score Master E I ‘15 -- T Mark Olson -- Interim Director of Chris Ramirez ‘16 -- Low Brass Zoe Onion ‘17 -- Music Manager Bands EJ Aranda ‘16 -- Percussion Mattie Newman ‘17 -- Music Manager Bass Drum Journal 2014 5 95 Years Young Our exciting celebration of 95 years as an institu- Hey Crust! tion championing unrivaled musical skill, cutting humor, feats of magnitude and might, and all-around, perpetual awesomeness is only 2 1⁄2 months away. My lovely, oh-so-capable and ever-cheerful assistant Bo and I have been working to ensure that the reunion weekend runs smoothly and reminds all why the Band is the fount of all wonder and goodness in the world.

By now, you should all have received in the mail registration forms and instruc- tions. You can register by mailing your form with payment in an envelope to 74 Mt. Auburn Street. You can also register online at our website http://www.hcs.har- vard.edu/~hub/95th/. Thank you to the miraculous 35 who have already reserved their spots. I love your enthusiasm. To those still rescheduling their lives around this once- in-a-lifetime* event, note you can register up to the starting time of every event occur- ing over the reunion weekend.

Registration materials will be distributed en masse from 2:00 to 4:00 PM Friday af- ternoon, but you can track down my assistant Bo or me anytime to sign in. As the registration process unfolds, several overlooked details have been corrected thanks to helpful Crusties. Please continue to contact my email (reunionmanager@harvard- band.org) with concerns. Parents who registered children for the discount package okease look out for consent forms and emergency contact information coming your way by early August.

Reminder that hotel information is available online with various (and approach- ing!) deadlines for reservations. Online forums are available for Crusties to coordi- nate weekend plans and reminisce. Fight songs will be posted online in the coming days, and flipbooks will be available when you arrive on campus.

OH! And FREE alcohol! How does one partake in gratuitous libations? Here’s the deal: whichever class has the largest Crustie representation will earn TWO FREE DRINK TICKETS PER CRUSTIE. The forum on the re- union website is open to help you pull in your classmates. The rules: I cannot provide personal information, though I can tell you if your friend the saw-wielding prop crew manager or that contrary passive- aggressive Trumpetess is attending. Other rules: none. It’s a battle royale, folks. Go to it.

YOURS is LONGER?: Yes, my worthy opponents, MINE IS THE LONGEST. Announcing: the world’s longest…..HA! No! Nothing shall be re- vealed until October 11th!

*The Lesser Egyptian Gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus) lives on average five years. Inexactitude is the key to all successful marketing.

INCredibly yours,

Paul Meosky

HUB 95th Reunion manager

reunionman- ager@harvard- band.org

6 Illegitimum non Carborundum! The Conductor’s Corner his past year the members in the with Mr. Hancock was special and will be Harvard University Band, Wind treasured for years to come. TEnsemble and Jazz Bands has been In April The jazz bands also traveled to busy but the experiences have been rewarding, Worcester to perform as part of the Brown enlightening and inspiring. Bag Series sponsored by WICN Radio and The Harvard University Band participated Mechanics Hall. in the launch of the Harvard Campaign, the In honor of the Harvard University Band’s capitol campaign to raise 6.8 billion dollars. 95th Anniversary this coming fall, composer The band was part of a VIP event in September. Libby Larsen was commissioned to write a They also represented Harvard University in work for the Wind Ensemble to be premiered at the Allston-Brighton Parade. Both of these the Montage concert of the reunion weekend. events were significant to Harvard University Libby Larson came to campus in November to . The Harvard University Band continually talk with the members of the wind ensemble receives numerous request to perform beyond about the commission project, her life is a the athletic events and always receive thanks composer, and music. We are excited for this and acknowledgement. I want to commend opportunity and look forward to working and thank Alyson Freedy and the Senior with her in the final rehearsals before Staff for their fine work leading the the premiere. Ms. Larson has taken a band last year and I am confident Theo particular interest in Bertha and hopes The Deepest of Them All. Anyone can see why the Low Brass enjoys HUB love. Gerome and this years Senior Staff to incorporate the drum in some way in Always. will do continue to do the same. I truly the composition. enjoy working with such wonderful Continuing the traditional Band and embers students and leaders. of the Beanpot Concert, the Wind B M For this year and also for Ensemble performed with the the 2014-2015 academic year I bands from Boston College, Presented Awards have been appointed as Interim Boston University, Northeastern he Stephen D. MacDiarmid Award, Director of Bands and Don University in November. This named in honor of Steve MacDi- armid ’77, is presented annually to Bradon as Interim Director of Mark Olson concert continues to be an excellent T versatile musicians in the freshman class. the Monday Jazz Band. Sonia Interim Director opportunity for the students from Brathwaite serves both Don and each college to meet each other. As This year’s recipients are Maryrose Rob- myself as Administrative Assistant. Jack we continue with these concerts we are looking son, Justin Cavitt and Ronald Laracu- Megan, Director of the Office for the Arts for ways to further foster student engagement. ente. The Malcolm H. Holmes Award ’28, offers this update: The wind ensemble’s music this year was named after beloved Director Mal Holmes, “With the arrival of Professor Vijay Iyer, centered on a dance theme. Our December is presented to two dedicated freshman distinguished composer and pianist, to the concert titled Dancing with Dreams was a Bandies. The 2013 recipients are Mattie Harvard Music Department, attention is collection of music related to dance featuring Newman and David Armenta. The Robert now turning to the search for Tom Everett’s Warren Benson’s The Solitary Dancer and Guy T. Abrams Award, was initiated in 2008 by successor. While a search calendar is not Wolfenden’s Illyrian Dances. The ensemble Bob Abrams ’49. Established on the occa- firmly in place, colleagues hope to announce also premiered a composition by student sion of Abram’s 80th birthday, the award is the position in late spring or summer of this composer Sam Wu ’17, Dancing With Dreams. to be presented to a senior trumpet player year, and to conduct a search that would run Our March concert held on junior parents who has demonstrated outstanding musi- through the 2014-15 academic year, with weekend included Benjamin Britten’s Courtly cianship, distinguished leadership, and ded- the new director starting in the fall of 2015 Dances, Scott Joplin’s Combination March, ication to the Band. This year’s recipient is We are thrilled with the close collaboration and Joaquin Rodrigo’s Adagio. Ali Zimmerman ’15. between the OFA and the Music Department, In April the Wind Ensemble once again and are optimistic that this collaboration will invited student composers to compose works strengthen the position of the director in for the ensemble. Andre Nguyen ’16 and both the academic and extracurricular music Sam Wu ’17 each submitted a composition community. We will have more updates as and came in to rehearsals to work with the search plans take shape.” wind ensemble. Due to the Mahindra Humanities Department I continue to keep active with music selection of jazz artist Herbie Hancock as the opportunities professionally and in the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, The community. This past year I attended the Harvard Jazz bands focused much of this year International Trumpet Guild conference in on the music and influence of Herbie Hancock. Michigan, the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago, Harvard’s Finest Trumpet Section In November, Dr. Eddie Henderson, trumpeter The Jazz Education Network Conference in Ali Zimmerman, the trumpet section and member of Hancock’s Mwadishi band, Dallas, and the College Band Director National leader for 2012-2013 enjoys a beautiful serenade by her section. was Artist in Residence and performed with Association Conference here in Boston. These the Jazz Bands in a concert titled “The Musical conferences were important opportunities to ass rum ournal taff Worlds of Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage”. connect with colleagues, composers and artists B D J S In March and April we invited guitarist Lionel from around the country. In the local area, I Photos Loueke, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, continue serve as the Director of the Middlesex Sebastian Gomez ’14 both who have professional relationships Concert Band and also Principle Trumpet of Mason Marek ‘15 Caroline Rakus-Wojciechowski ‘17 performing with Herbie Hancock, and the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. In April I Radhika Jain ‘14 bassist John Lockwood as our spring Artists am often out working with and adjudicating Theo Gerome ’15 in Residence. With the collaboration of the wind bands, jazz bands, and orchestras. Editing Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Learning I am looking forward to seeing you all next Theo Gerome ’15 from Performance program the jazz bands fall at the reunion. were able to get to know these artists through Design and Layout performance and rehearsal as well through INC, Bo Choi ‘17 informal discussions and dinner. One of the highlights of the spring semester was inviting Mr. Hancock to spend two sessions with the Mark Olson was named the Interim Director members of the jazz band in an informal of the Harvard University Bands in 2013 amd discussion, dinner and rehearsal. Our time has been with the Band since 2003. Bass Drum Journal 2014 7 See you in October!

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