THE BASS DRUM JOURNAL April 2013 of THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY BAND Vol. 93 No. 1 CALM RISING THROUGH CHANGE AND THROUGH STORM One of my favorite moments at Harvard occurs in the Band Room directly after a Band gig. Before all the bandies arrive, the room is clean, empty and silent. Signs on the wall, a throne in the corner, pictures of the “Old Band,” cases strewn all over: tradition and Band lore are everywhere you look. The material pieces of the Band are in place, but something is eerily missing. Before you know it, the silence is broken with a sudden jolt. A fl urry of Crimson jackets and energetic bandies descend upon the Band Room. As the whirlwind of bandies swirls around me, I head back to the Manager’s offi ce, settling into my ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BAND! THE BAND POSES IN FRONT OF THE JOHN quiet oasis after a long and hectic gig. As HARVARD STATUE AFTER CHRISTMAS CAROLING IN BOSTON. I enter my offi ce, I can’t help but feel an enormous sense of pride: how lucky am I comedian at times, and a friend to all. He brought jazz respective NCAA tournaments. Looking to be at the helm of such an amazing group to Harvard, kept us out of trouble for four decades, forward to the spring season, we will be of people? Each and every bandie and with and made the Band what we know it to be today. For expanding our gig schedule into sports like the amazing history, richness and diversity all that Tom has meant to the Band over his tenure, men’s volleyball while also serving the they bring with them. That is the Harvard I can’t possibly adequately serve his legacy justice community in the Duckling Day parade on University Band. Brilliant musicians, here. For the next year, Mark Olson will be acting Mother’s Day and during Harvard events hilarious comedians, and great friends, as the Interim Director of Bands while the Offi ce for including Visitas weekend, Arts First united in a noble tradition of supporting the Arts undergoes an intensive search, with Band, celebration, and Commencement this May. our school through wit and spirit…what student, alumni, and faculty input, to select the next With all of the upcoming challenges a concept. Director of Bands. Over the course of the next year, and excitement approaching the Band this Trying to explain why I love the further information will be released year, I consider myself one of the luckiest Band so much to other Harvard students about plans for the celebration of students at Harvard to be able to lead such is particularly diffi cult. I tell them that I Tom’s retirement as well as the a vibrant student organization at such a enjoy watching sports, playing my fl ute and appointment of a new Director of pivotal point in its history. I am very excited celebrating school spirit: how better Bands. At this time more than any to give back to the Band as Manager in to live out those passions other, I appreciate the never-failing every way I possibly can. Nina, Chris, than participating in the support of the Band community and Max, Liz, and Cat served the Band in so Harvard University the power of Band tradition to rise many excellent and diverse ways this past Band? Although those above all adversity. year. My staff and I could not have asked reasons seem to add up In the midst of these changes, for a better set of role models and hope to mathematically, it doesn’t the Band continues to win. serve their legacy well moving forward into quite capture the depth of my Carrying on the Band’s tradition this year! I would also like to thank Mark infatuation with this organization. of becoming bigger and better with for being a constant source of support for After several hours of every passing year, our role in the my staff and me as we embark upon our pondering, I realized there is ALLYSON FREEDY University and Athletic Department journey with the Band. Looking forward, something distinct to the way Manager is also growing. We have been invited we would love for you to pay us a visit at in which all bandies, young and to more community and sporting 74 Mt. Auburn Street and feel the warmth old, are bonded by the Band’s tradition of events this year than ever before, and only expect of the Band community once again. Despite wit and school spirit. Any Bandie you ask, those numbers to keep increasing. With an increase any changes that may occur in the Band from the youngest freshman to the oldest of the publicity of the Band, we’ve also seen an this next year, I’m confi dent that with the crustie, can attest to the inexplicable power increase in new members. This year, we recruited strength of Band tradition and community, of singing Ten Thousand Men of Harvard upwards of 40 new bandies. With fresh energy, new we will continue to always win! with the Band. It is traditions like this that arrangements and witty football shows, the Band led INC, unify bandies of all ages even when faced the football team to victory week after week. We with times of great change. Recently, we’ve also served the larger Boston community through seen the renovation of almost all of our low our annual Christmas Caroling in downtown Boston brass instruments thanks to the Larry Millet and our performance at the Hasty Pudding Woman Allyson Freedy ’14 is currently serving Fund, been conducted by celebrities, and of the Year Parade, honoring Marion Cotillard. the Band as Manager for 2012-2013. travelled with our basketball team to the As we entered the 2013 winter season, we She is a Chemistry concentrator with a NCAA tournament for the fi rst time in 66 enthusiastically supported both our men’s and secondary in Neurobiology from Clear- years. The power of the Band community women’s hockey and basketball teams as they water, Florida. to achieve greater heights and withstand travelled to the Boston Beanpot tournaments and change, while never failing to honor its fought for playoff hopes once again. This season in INSIDE... history, is truly a tradition that will never die. particular, the Band has played for sold-out crowds, Drill Master’s Report ... 2 As many of you have heard, our Band been televised both nationally and locally several Reunion Reminder ... 3 director of 42 years, Tom Everett, retired times and has been greatly appreciated by the Athletic Tom’s Retirement ... 6 on February 15, 2013. For those of you Department and coaches alike. Due to the continued who never got the privilege to work with success of Harvard’s athletics, we cheered on both Conductor’s Corner ... 7 Tom, he is an amazing bass trombonist, the Women’s hockey team and Men’s basketball 2012-2013 Band Awards ... 7 accomplished jazz musician, corny team as they fought to keep their season alive in their Check out the online version of the Bass Drum Journal and keep up with band news at www.harvardband.org BIG THINGS. LOTS AND LOTS OF REALLY BIG THINGS. In 2012, the Band accompanied HHolyoly CCrossross (Crusaders(Crusaders 33,, CrimsonCrimson 552)2) the Grouch, as an homage to this week’s the Harvard Men’s Basketball team to This week’s theme was the Wild, Wild Sesame Street pregame. the NCAA Tournament after clinching West: the crusading Waco Knight, the Ivy League Title. Later, while the portrayed gratuitously Texas-ly by CColumbiaolumbia ((LionsLions 00,, CCrimsonrimson 669)9) football team only just missed the Manager Nina Khosrowsalafi, rolled in If you didn’t read the final score first, championship title, the Band remained from the dusty trail to stir up trouble in now is your chance. We started off the undefeated yet again. Through thick Cambridge. The only one who could stop day by reading a pregame dedicated to and thin, the Band was present at her dastardly madness? Sheriff Walker the incredible donations of the Larry every halftime we could perform at, Harvard Ranger, played with all the Millet Low Brass Fund, spearheaded offering our signature tongue-in-cheek appropriate country swag by Drum Major by former Schneider Ken Abbot ’83. humor. A very successful recruiting Liz Moroney. With the aid of a Boloco We once again pushed the envelope by season, 24 Drill Meetings, 34 drafts, burrito and an absurdly large shotgun having a Meta-Show: we spent the entire and uncountably infinite hub_drill posts (seriously, it was on par with the spatula), halftime drafting ideas for this week’s later, I now present the highlights of our the Waco Knight was driven outta town, show. While we never settled on what season in shows: leaving the Harvard University Band of it actually was, we did determine that Good Guys to gallop off into the sunset. it wasn’t a Star Wars, Hurricane Sandy, MMen’sen’s BasketballBasketball vvs.s. PPrincetonrinceton ((TigersTigers Halloween, , buddy detective, Willy 664,4, CCrimsonrimson 667)7) CCornellornell ((BigBig RReded 113,3, Wonka, Nightmare Before Christmas or In our first show of 2012, the CCrimsonrimson 445)5) Sci-Fi show. Definitely not. Band explained Harvard’s 66 After the Band runs onto year absence in the NCAA: the field screaming, clearly in the PPennenn ((CrimsonCrimson 221,1, QQuakersuakers 330)0) once we got there the throes of a terrible nightmare, it is up This week we did Christmas, the one way first time, would-be to me to calm them down with some we knew how: basketball stars like bedtime stories, Ivy League style. Also, We took a good story, added meter, and Yo-Yo Ma and Conan it is up to Prop Crew to make sure they wow! O’Brien moved onto ingest copious amounts of We recounted how Penn students stole other things to keep CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Nyquil from yet another all of our cheer, our resume diversified. Drill Master disproportionately-sized The cheer we looked forward to having However, with the prop. Repetition once all year! apocalypse fast approaching, Harvard again saves the day as the Band falls down But the Quakers were stopped, overcome decided to return one more time. And asleep on the field during our reading by the Band, we did. of Goodnight Moon, as glockenspielist/ As we cheered through the streets, quads-ist/trombonist/etc.-ist David through the town, through the land! SSanan DDiegoiego ((TorerosToreros 113,3, CCrimsonrimson 228)8) Abarca solos “Rock-a-bye-bandie.” The Band formed a big, tuba-clad After poking fun at San Diego for Christmas tree, traveling about as far as Mars to play BBucknellucknell ((BisonsBisons 77,, CCrimsonrimson 335)5) As Max Wang conducted Love Actually. us (but without a marching band!), we Chaos reigns when the Band interprets poked more fun at them for being from the Registrar’s Academic Calendar ending yyAleAle ((bulldogsbulldogs 224,4, CCrimsonrimson 334)4) California. Feigning ignorance about on December 21, 2012 to signify the end The Band puts on a modern retelling of the distinction between San Diego and of the world. When the brutal (heart- Melville’s classic, Moby Dan. Captain Santa Claus, we recounted our trip out wrenching, even) sacrifice of our Drum Ahab Harvard (Aleja) scours the seven to California to learn what it was all Major proves incapable of stopping the seas looking for the beast that forced him really about. As a show of good humor impending disaster, we accept the Drew to don his iconic golden pegfoot. With the and civility, we then also made fun of Faustian bargain of visiting a local Staples aid of first mate Teddy Roosevelt, Natalie Boston’s Duck Tours. to buy a new calendar at an affordable Starboardman, and an enormous harpoon, price. That was easy! (Consider this my the bullwhale (and its working blowhole!) BBrownrown (Bears(Bears 331,1, CrimsonCrimson 445)5) shoutout to Prop Crew’s humorously big was defeated. Needless to say, the crowd Experimenting with our show formats, easy button: see previous clause.) went wild. Our win ensured that I and the Band hosted a cooking show: Iron the rest of my class have never seen The Chef Ivy League. Harvard’s Hastily- PPrincetonrinceton ((CrimsonCrimson 334,4, TTigersigers 339)9) Game won by anyone but Harvard. prepared Pudding edges out Brown’s Once again showing that our halftime “freethought” concoction of too many shows are on the bleeding edge of the I have to thank my Prop Crew Manager, appetizers and a cheesy poem. Celebrity Ivy League in creativity, we put on a Alejandro Jimenez-Jaramillo, who took guests included resident MILF P!nk, “Game” Show. While the HUB’s style of my childlike imagination (and obsession and a 12-foot long spatula that flipped a four-letter bangs prove too difficult in the with large objects) and made it something ridiculously-sized egg on the field. Jeopardy round, we did make a snazzy truly special. He and his loyal team never Wheel of Fortune board (and Prop Crew questioned my silly requests, and instead 2013 Manager Aleja made an even snazzier turned them into an incredible reality. I Vanna White). We then gave a Princeton could not have asked for anything more. student the chance to win it big on “Who If you don’t believe me, check out Verse FOOTBALL Wants to Be a Harvard Student?” Tune in Two! And of course, a big thanks to Nina, to Verse Two to see how that turned out! Max, Liz and Cat for working so hard SCHEDULE to make this year amazing. Keep it real, Date Opponent Where DDartmouthartmouth ((BigBig GGreenreen 114,4, CCrimsonrimson 331)1) the Band. Sat. Sep. 21 San Diego Away The Band provides commentary on Sat. Sep. 28 Brown Home the election season, going so far as to INC, Sat. Oct. 05 Holy Cross Away nominate ourselves for the presidential Sat. Oct. 12 Cornell Away ticket and choose Dartmouth as our runningmate, after looking through our Sat. Oct. 19 Lafayette Home binders full of other Bands. After all, we Sat. Oct. 26 Princeton Home do have 93 years of experience scrambling Sat. Nov. 02 Dartmouth Home to cover our mistakes. The show featured Christopher Murray ‘13 was Drill Master Sat. Nov. 09 Columbia Away a Celebrity Guest Prop Crew when the from 2011-2012. He is a Chemistry and Sat. Nov. 16 Pennsylvania Home Dartmouth Police performed a live Physics concentrator, with a secondary in arrest of what we can only assume was Sat. Nov. 23 yAle Away Mathematical Sciences, from West Islip, a Dartmouth student dressed as Oscar New York. 2 ILLEGITIMUM NON CARBORUNDUM! HUB TRAVELOGUE 2012 When I explain my role in Band for the past year to any non-bandie, I mention trip logistics, correspondence, and school spirit among my vaguely defined responsibilities as the vaguely titled “Drum Major” (oh, and “no, I don’t actually play drums”). However, my most memorable duties this year were ambassadorial, facilitating cultural exchange for my cohort of friends. We traveled together as the Harvard University Band, comrades united in controlled chaos. JUMPING FOR JOY! LAST YEAR’S STAFF CELEBRATES OUR ARRIVAL IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM Spring Break was FOR THE MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. madness—March Madness. All I could control was making sure that Harvard was hurting from its only loss of On March 13, 2012, everyone was present, everyone was sober, the football season. I was starting to think twenty-nine bandies and and everyone had used the bathroom. it would have been better off to just go one Mark Olson arrived at For two days, we were pioneers. We home. The Princeton manager assured me the Albuquerque took a tram up to Sandia Peak, where that it was fun, that the rules were simple: International one mountainside is desert and the other Pair up with a Princetonian. Swap clothes. Sunport. The night snow; we celebrated “Christmas” with Start marching. before, a quick local red and green chile; we learned We wandered through parking lots and internet search from the Southwesterners among us about piles of crimson and orange leaves until taught me the glories of Whataburger. The Band we arrived at the aptly named Fountain ELIZABETH MORONEY that this faced rare and exotic challenges: packing of Freedom.The Harvard and Princeton Drum Major was, in fact, drums and tubas for airplane travel; breath Bands danced down wading steps while the world’s support in the thin Mile High air; snakes playing the Bunny Hop, a feat that would only “sunport.” That’s when I knew the near the Rio Grande. But there were surely make Tom proud. The next ten… trip would be like no other. familiar traditions: Ten Thou sendoffs twenty… some number of minutes were The world was sepia. It reminded for the basketball team at our hotel; the extemporized revelry. As Harvard bandies me of photographs from the 1960s, how Mom Bag’s toiletries, quick fixes, and stripped to their skivvies (some sporting I could never be sure whether the muted first aid supplies; the Boomsucks through borrowed Princetonian sailor hats), as oranges, browns, and grays were an effect toll booths. both bands improvised a triple-time 99 of the developed film or the flamboyant The game itself was familiar too, Red Balloons (and I futilely attempted décor. Apparently, we had time traveled on albeit with a lot more security detail, to mace along), as recycled, likely-putrid our flight, in more ways than one. cameramen, and professionalism (rather, New Jersey water rained down on my In true retro fashion, we descended an earnest commitment to putting only good tux shirt, and as Mark looked directly on to the tarmac via staircase. illegalities on the back burner). The Pit on from the sidelines (in what I hoped Everyone had dressed the part: the array at the University of New Mexico had been was not horror), I fondly recalled how of business casual, from our groggy seven- dubbed the loudest arena in the country; far we’d come. A year before, we were AM decisions, brought orange tones, we screamed until we were dizzy, to drown the ostensibly proper Harvard Band, the brown plaids, corduroys, mod patterned out the sea of Vanderbilt green. And then Band that wore the fullest of full uniforms, tunics. The distant Sandia Mountains, it was over, and we were whisked away the Band that played rain or shine. But hazy and perfect like a pre-fab backdrop, covertly, after dark. fountains? Orange and plaid? What had we lent themselves to a set of squinty pictures, On the plane ride home, gametime become? It was then that I remembered my the inescapable sun creating a complete cheers lingered as a scratch in my throat. spring break wish, in which I supplicated album of failed snapshots, a modern Our faces were sunburned and our airways with the Drum Major weather gods for marvel in the age of digital photography. were cracked. At the time, the fountain more humidity. The fountain was our We assembled into the band’s usual gig was but a mischievous twinkle in our vindication. permutations of varying organizational eyes, but I got the sense that our glory days In the past year, the band went where logic—seniors, freshmen, Senior Staff, weren’t over, and that propriety wouldn’t it never had before: a New Mexican desert flutes, low brass, members of Leverett have the last word. and a New Jerseyan fountain of youth. House, Hispanics, Midwesterners, people April brought some critical diplomatic We braved extreme conditions. We tested that got burritos together last week, etc. negotiations at the Ivy Bands Conference: the extremes of our decorum. We made Two coach buses met us planeside. I an olive branch with the Princeton Band. history, or so it seemed to us. We don’t pretended to know where the buses were I found out that since the Harvard Club have much to show for it—a slew of bad going. All we’d been given was a one-way of New York always hosted us before pictures, a few water-logged instruments, charter flight to the Land of Enchantment Princeton away games, HUB had never exultant hotel-room choruses of “Call Me and a to-be-determined itinerary from been invited to join in PUB’s postgame Maybe” still ringing in my ears. the NCAA. I had spent the night before tradition. We arranged for HUB and But we came. We saw. No one got dreaming up the best, vaguest trip I could, PUB to meet after the Harvard-Princeton arrested. We played some music too. All I a trip to do justice to “all expenses paid.” football game in mid-October. can say is that it was fun. Both games were When that postgame moment arrived, tough losses, but it was hard to believe we hadn’t won. Save the Date! INC,

95TH REUNION TO COME IN FALL 2014! Elizabeth Moroney ’12-’13 was Drum Ma- jor in 2012. She recently graduated with a FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE degree in Social Studies and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CONFETTI! THE BAND CELEBRATES YET FORTHCOMING. ANOTHER VICTORY AGAINST SAN DIEGO. BASS DRUM JOURNAL 2013 3 Men’s Basketball team in their first NCAA EFRESHING THE EPERTOIRE bid in 66 years—a first for us, as well. R R Even outside of the spotlight, we strove for musical progress. This year, AND OTHER TALES OF RENEWAL with special thanks to hard work from A month into my term as StudCon, our arrangements do not change in kind, Nina, Mark, and our Instruments Manager, I sent an email to hub_luv, the Band’s then our music is less for us, less by us, Calvin, we were able to make repairs to arrangers’ email list, concerning some less us; and the magic of student arranging the entire inventory of HUB instruments. goals I had for arranging in the coming would be lost—and lost, as well, would Due to the superhuman efforts of my year. In the past, issues of arranging were be an unmatched opportunity for musical committee—James, Theo, Kim, Calvin, often discussed with the StudCon privately, learning. and Ali, you were all extraordinary and I but I wanted to bring the process—from But it is, I think, at least in some small still can’t thank you enough—we finally questions to claiming songs—into a more part because our music never ceases to digitized the entire repertoire and reprinted public forum. One bandie responded to change and to renew itself that the spirit of all of the tunesaqs. Hopefully, these efforts ask what the policy was for redoing old the Band remains constant. For me, to be will make it easier to drive the Band’s arrangements we no longer played. Though in the Band is to live in the moment, and musical growth in the coming years. I’d only been StudCon a month, the answer to enjoy each such moment to its fullest. It has been the greatest pleasure of my came to me readily enough. I’d had I see this essential nature of the Band life to serve the Band in its neverending plenty of time with the Band to whenever crusties return to join us at musical journey. Nina, Chris, Liz, and contemplate the unique relationship football games, to revel in their own Cat—our work was tough, but ever a joy, we have with our music—and moments, and as a StudCon, I want and I’m so proud of all we were able to so, I told her to go ahead and the Band’s music to share in this accomplish together. arrange the song again if spirit—to be always for the Band at Merry Christmas to all, and to all one that’s what she wanted this moment, whenever it is that this last time, to do.One of the crusties moment happens to be. INC, on the list, however, I tried my best to embrace took some offense to this MAX WANG and to propel musical change suggestion. There was no Student Conductor and renewal throughout the reason, she said, to think the last year. In 2012, we added Band’s current arrangers were producing a whopping 15 songs to our regular Max Wang ’13 was Student Conductor the best pieces we could be playing. It repertoire, the tunesaqs [sic]. These came from 2011-2012. He is a Computer Science upset her to see songs from our repertoire from seven different arrangers, four of concentrator from Malvern, Pennsylvania. a few years ago being “lamely rearranged” them non-StudCons—to my knowledge, so soon. But while this commitment to during my three-and-a-half years in the HARVARD SUMMER POPS quality is indeed imperative, it is not the Band, only five bandies who were not end-all: there was more to the story than StudCons, including these four, have BAND TO PERFORM the resultant song. had their arrangements entered into our ON JULY 28 As StudCon, I spent each and every day repertoire. We also debuted six more new The forty-fi rst season of the Harvard of my term trying to foster and to develop arrangements at halftime shows throughout the spirit of—and talent for—student football season, including a theme from Summer Pops Band will start rehearsals arranging in the Band. In my mind, it is the Christmas romantic comedy, Love, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 from 7:15 to so incredibly important that our music is Actually. 9:30 p.m in Sanders Theatre. student arranged. Just a few weeks ago, The Band had its fill of new musical I was reminded again of its significance escapades as well. This football season, The band will rehearse every when I heard that a friend of mine in the the HUB joined the Princeton Band in Wednesday evening through July 24th. Penn Band had arranged a tune for them to their traditional post-game jam inside the We will be playing a concert in Harvard play. Naturally, I asked him what it was. waters of the Woodrow Wilson Fountain. Yard on July 25th and a concert at the “’Animal’, by the Neon Trees,” he At the Bucknell game, the Band performed told me. Leroy Anderson’s “Harvard Medley” Hatch Shell on Sunday afternoon, July “Oh, we have that, too!” I said. inside Soldiers Field for the first time in 28. Come out and join us! (Arranged by my predecessor, David over a decade. At the away Penn game, Abarca ’13, “Animal” is currently a staple we performed a show consisting entirely For more information, check the of our repertoire.) of Christmas music. And let’s not forget Band’s website, www.harvardband.org, “Bought or self-arranged?” he asked. the Band’s national stage this past March and click on “Summer Band.” And aah! — that’s when you know! It’s in Albuquerque, where we cheered on the exactly this sort of thing that guarantees that the Band will always, always remain undefeated. Because for us, it just wasn’t even a question! In the Penn Band, students occasionally arrange. But in the Harvard Band, our music is always our own—made for us, made by us! Always. But this special relationship with our music only lasts as long as we continue to produce music for ourselves. We do pause to appreciate our very best arrangements, but we cannot cling too obstinately to them—for if we do, our connection to our music fades, and it is no longer ours. With the passing of time, our instrumentation changes, our tastes change, and most O’ER THE STRANDS OF FLAMING CRIMSON! THE BAND SHOWS OFF ITS SCHOOL SPIRIT pointedly, our membership changes. If AND CRIMSON PRIDE DURING PREGAME. Contact the Band! Got Alumni News? ADDRESS: 74 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138-5051 HAVE YOU FOUND... PHONE: 617-496-BAND (2263) BANDIE LOVE? EXORBITANT SUCCESS? EMAIL: [email protected] LET US KNOW, AND WE’LL PRINT IT IN THE NEXT WEB: http://www.harvardband.org BASS DRUM JOURNAL! FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/harvard.university.band SEND YOUR NEWS TO [email protected] TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/harvardband 4 ILLEGITIMUM NON CARBORUNDUM! THE LUCK OF THE SCHNEIDER OR IF YOU’RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE SCHNEIDER, YOU’RE LUCKY ENOUGH! Once upon a time I was a shy fresh- the beauty and challenges of the position tune of being the caretaker and nurturer of man bandie who possessed only a vague and what kind of deep personal strength the the best traditions of the Harvard University sense of what the offi ce of the Schneider job entails. Soon enough I began to warm Band. At once, she is the ultimate juxtapo- entails. As someone who had never been up to both bandies and all things Band. sition of past and present, preserving past to a proper party before in her entire life, Rather than run away from the Schneider traditions but adapting them so they change it would seem I almost made it my mission Band as I had done before, I began to gravi- gracefully with the times. As Schneider, I to avoid Schneider Band festivities at all tate toward it and verge outside of my com- summoned my personal strength to chan- costs. For the life of me, I cannot even re- fort zone, hoping to reap some of Professor nel the spirit of Professor Johann Wolfgang member exactly why I didn’t participate in Schneider’s inherent wisdom and learn how von Schneider all day, every day. From gal- the social side of the Band for the fi rst half to better live well, love well, and play well livanting around the River Houses while of my freshman year beyond my initial un- (musically and otherwise). playing Rack City and other esteemed familiarity with college parties. Certainly, What wisdom did I glean from Pro- compositions on kazoos with my conviv- it was no fault of the incumbent fessor Schneider’s teachings, you ask? ial comrades to insisting upon singing the Schneider, a fellow rawkin’ fl ute Well, I learned the fundamentals: Physi- proper lyrics to the fi ght songs whenever, player who had immediately cal Education – there is no excuse not to wherever, I would like to think that there’s a befriended me when I joined the dance when you’re around the Band; little bit of Professor Schneider in me. Just, Band. Ultimately, it must German – in the form of the instead of a silver cornet, I prefer to rock have been some combina- Oktoberfest Excitement Cheer out on a green piccolo – that’s the luckiest tion of my fear of the un- performed in the stands (Eins, color of them all, you know. known and my reluctance in zwei, drei… Zuffa!); and lastly, INC&PVP, reaching out to others. If you Defense Against the Dark Arts had asked me four years ago – cheers and confetti conjure whether I would have ever CATHERINE FLYNN warmth and spirit during rainy been interested in serving in Schneider and cold football games. With Catherine Flynn ‘13 was Schneider from the capacity of the Harvard these foundation courses under 2011-2012. She is a joint concentrator in University Band’s combined social chair, my belt, I eventually graduated Schneider- History and Science and Literature from counselor, matchmaker, rebel-with-a-cause, dom with an improved ability to go with Milford, New Hampshire. and cool mom, chances are I would have the fl ow, improvising whenever necessary, TThehe BBandand ssincerelyincerely tthankshanks oourur 22012012 brushed off the suggestion and dismissed which I believe to be the very essence of AAndersonnderson SocietySociety MMembers:embers: the possibility. But then something wonder- Professor Schneider. A lovely sketch of our ful happened; within a year’s time, I was favorite thirsty scholar, goblet in hand and Ms. Fatima Abrantes-Pais lucky enough to have fallen in love with powdered wig slightly askew, adorns the Mr. Arnold Aronson both the Harvard University Band and Pro- back wall of the Band Room, constantly Mr. Scott Berney fessor Schneider’s Silver Cornet Band. reminding me of the most important thing Dr. Robert J. Blacklow Much like Mr. Darcy from Pride and you can do whenever you’re in doubt: pre- Ms. Ann Marie Breaux Prejudice and his unforeseen infatuation tend you’re certainly confi dent when you’re Ms. Virginia G. Breen with Elizabeth Bennet, this love had com- confi dentially uncertain and simply have Mr. John Connolly menced long before my awareness of it. (“I the time of your life making up ridiculous- cannot fi x on the hour, or the spot, or the ness as you go along. Dr. Thomas S. Difl o look, or the words, which laid the founda- When I fi rst walked into the BR in Sep- Mr. Timothy Fiege tion. It is too long ago. I was in the middle tember of 2009, I wasn’t quite sure of what Dr. Barry W. Furze before I knew that I had begun.”) Maybe it I was looking for, but it felt like a place Mr. David B. Gootenberg was my preexisting fascination with Ger- where I could belong and be my shy, silly Mr. & Mrs. Paul and Janet Gerome man language and culture, the result of both self. At 74 Mount Auburn Street, I found The Hon. Justice Kenneth my pet German Shepherd and my enroll- a home and a place where I could channel Laurence ment in Deutsch A, or maybe it was that my kookiness for the greater good. I arrived Dr. Wendy Livingston my Irish heritage predisposed an affi nity timid and by a year I had grown bolder for the exact shade of green that colors the and braver. When I performed an interpre- Dr. Neil R. Miller Schneider’s tie. Somewhere in between my tive yodel at the Dead Week Talent Show Ms. Elaine B. Murphy increasing addiction to Band gigs and my at the behest of a much beloved friend and Mr. James Robo introversion’s burgeoning inversion into Schneider Emerita, I knew the Band had Mr. Marlowe Sigal extroversion, I blossomed into a full-blown changed me for the better. The Band helped Mr. Thomas Stemberg bandie and proud card-carrying member of me shed my shell and develop from a fresh- Mr. Peter Strauss Professor Schneider’s Silver Cornet Band. man that was terrifi ed of parties to a Schnei- Mr. Ralph Wharton Under the tenure of the second and deress who exulted in throwing them. Mr. Timur Yontar third Schneiders I saw in action, I realized The Schneider possesses the great for- HARVARD UNIVERSITY BAND STAFF 2012-2013 SENIOR STAFF JUNIOR STAFF ROSE WHITCOMB ‘16 -- INSTRUMENTS ALLYSON FREEDY ‘14 -- MANAGER CARA DOWELL ‘15 -- TREASURER BIANCA TROMBETTA ‘15 -- EXTERNAL IAN MACGILLIVRAY ‘15 -- DRILL MASTER MILLY WANG ‘16 -- ALUMNI & PR CALVIN TONINI ‘15 -- INTERNAL AND WEB- LOUIS COPPERSMITH ‘14 -- STUDENT CON- HARRISON SMITH ‘14 -- MAILING & MERCH MASTER DUCTOR PAUL MEOSKY ‘16 -- REUNION / HISTORIAN ZACH BRAZÃO ‘16 -- SCHWARTZ KIM JOHANSSON ‘15 -- DRUM MAJOR MASON MAREK ‘15 -- BLOGTOGRAPHER/ JAIMIE DANA ‘16 -- WEISSE KATHYRN WENDORF ‘14 -- SCHNEIDER ADM CHRIS RAMIREZ ‘16 -- WEISSE SECTION LEADERS ELOISE WHEELER ‘16 - PROP CREW NICK CIULLA ‘16 -- WEISSE GARRETT MARON ‘16 -- FLUTE ELLEN ROBO ‘16 -- PROP CREW PRERNA BHAT ‘16 -- CLARINET DARARA BORODGE ‘15 -- CINEMATOGRA- DIRECTOR THEO GEROME ‘15 -- SAX PHER MARK OLSON -- INTERIM DIRECTOR OF ALI ZIMMERMAN ‘15 -- TRUMPET MIKE ROSS ‘16 -- RECRUITING & POSTERING BANDS ALEJA JIMENEZ-JARAMILLO ‘15 -- LOW MIKE RALEIGH ‘15 -- SCORE MASTER BRASS GIANINA YUMUL ‘16 -- MUSIC MANAGER KATIE FARINEAU ‘16 -- PERCUSSION SCOTT JOHNSON ‘16 -- MUSIC MANAGER BASS DRUM JOURNAL 2013 5 42 YEARS OF MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP TOM’S REMARKS A LEGACY OF JAZZ AND MENTORSHIP BY ANDREW KATZENSTEIN ‘13 life he would develop a deep appreciation Dear Crusties and Bandies, The past eight months have been for their outsider style of jazz. strange in the universe of the Harvard Jazz About fifty years later, it’s February As you’ve read elsewhere in Band. With the announcement that Tom in Cambridge, and I run into Tom at a this issue of the BDJ, in Everett would be taking the fall semester performance an octogenarian Konitz is February I retired from my off, followed by his formal retirement, we, giving at the Regattabar. After the show, position as Director of like the rest of the HUB, have been in a Tom is talking to Lee, and from a safe Bands. Over the last 42 state of transition. Goodbyes are distance I hear Tom tell him that he sounds years, I’ve treasured the always more difficult when as good as always. I know that Tom had opportunities, challenges— you don’t expect them. Had hired Konitz a few times to play at Harvard sometimes outrageous—and I known last year that it would and to work with the Jazz Band, but I camaraderie of the Harvard be Tom’s last, I would’ve made a wonder if Lee knew that he first met a Band and its traditions. greater effort to commit to memory smaller version of Tom in the fifties in the TOM EVERETT (or paper) the many stories, jokes, suburbs of New York. May our paths cross again. Former Director recommendations and judgments — Perhaps not. Tom was always INC, rehearsed or improvisatory — with unassuming and deferent around his heroes, which he cemented our rehearsals, letting only his profound respect for their filling in the space between music-making work, and not his own personality, shine like mortar between bricks. through. I’ve met few people who have as While a few oft-repeated jokes jump deep respect and knowledge of the history Thomas G. Everett retired from the position out at me — such as the story of Max Roach and characters of jazz than Tom. I’d come the Director of the Harvard Band on Febru- walking into a drummer’s convention and to him with questions about obscure figures ary 15th, 2013 after 42 years of service to lamenting, “So many drummers, so little on the periphery of the tradition — say, a the Jazz Bands, Wind Ensemble and Harvard time” — the tales he told me serialist composer who made University Band. personally, in quieter moments one of the most interesting in his office, which was always jazz soundtracks of the film YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO... filled with music piping out noir era (Meyer Kupferman, TOM’S RETIREMENT CELEBRATION! of his computer, seem more Blast of Silence), or the oft- significant. For example, he forgotten Julius Hemphill THE HARVARD BAND, THE OFFICE FOR related to me that, around the — and he’d always have an THE ARTS AND THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT age of ten, he was playing insightful thing to say about WILL BE HOSTING A RECEPTION FOR TOM: (musically and otherwise) with their work and their historical TUESDAY, MAY 7 a friend on Long Island named relevance. Where music is 4:30-6:30 PM Billy Bauer, Jr. The two, who concerned, Tom’s love dwarfs REMARKS FROM 6:00-6:15 PM had been in the basement, his expansive wit. I realize FARKAS HALL, 10-12 HOLYOKE ST. walked upstairs to find Billy’s now that this love, and not his PLEASE JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE TOM’S father, a guitarist of considerable talent, personality, is what really kept the jazz LEGACY! FOR ALL WHO CANNOT ATTEND, rehearsing with his close compatriots, program together for 41 years at Harvard. TOM WILL BE HONORED IN GRAND FASHION Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and Warne The foundations he built here are strong, AT THE 95TH REUNION IN 2014. Marsh, among others. The young Tom had and I have no doubt that they will remain STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS! no idea who these men were, but later in and be expanded upon for decades. funded with these donations making up the THE BAND FOUNDATION: AN INSIDE LOOK lion’s share of their operating budget for BY SCOTT BERNEY ’91 any given year. For those interested in mak- The Harvard Band Foundation: another by the staff and the Directors are vetted by the ing an additional gift beyond that, funds secret society where crusties were “tapped” Foundation’s Grants Committee. The Foun- given to the Foundation are added to the to be members. Rumored to meet in exotic dation has supported capital and extraordi- endowment and support the Bands through locations, where Board members would nary expenses including instrument purchase annual grants as noted above. Donations feast on Komodo Dragon steaks while sip- and repair, recording equipment, arranging can be made through JustGive.Org, which ping Chateau Lafi te Rothschild ’61 and dis- software, jacket reimbursement for freshmen processes donations for registered 501(c) cussing Ivy League domination. who meet attendance requirements, travel to (3) non-profi t organizations. Changes in open disclosure laws and a Harvard playoff games, commissioned musi- Every year, we induct a small number court order from the current HUB manager cal arrangements, and appearances by com- of new initiates into the Order of the Tuba, now reveal the truth. Sadly, because the last posers and noted musicians. More than three er, we ask a small number of crusties to be- paragraph sounded kind of fun, the reality hundred thousand dollars has been distrib- come Associates of the Foundation. They is more prosaic. uted over the last ten years. are selected based on class representation, The current incarnation of the Founda- The Foundation also serves as a sound- commitment to the bands, and applicable tion was initiated by David Green ’81, and ing board to the Bands. Walking the line skills. If you are interested in being con- substantially increased by a campaign in the between offering sage advice and harangu- sidered, send me an email at scott_berney_ 90’s led by then President Marlowe Sigal ing the undergraduates about “what it was [email protected]. ’52, and Vice President Gary Pforzheimer like when we were in the Band” and asking Finally, I would like to express my ap- ’84. “why they don’t play the medleys anymore,” preciation to Tom Everett both personally The Foundation’s assets are managed the Foundation has provided occasionally and on behalf of the Foundation. Tom’s in- by Crosby Advisors, a group affi liated with helpful recommendations on recruiting new fl uence over his forty years on the march- Fidelity that invests the wealth of Fidelity’s members and dealing with the Athletic De- ing band and the development of jazz bands controlling shareholders, as well as funds partment and administration. The undergrad- and Wind Ensemble cannot be overstated. from 35 New England-based charitable or- uates tell us this advice has been valuable, He has impacted thousands of students over ganizations. As of December 31, 2012, the usually right after they have fi nished making the years, helping to guide the bands calm- Foundation’s total assets were $1,083,523. the grant requests. ly, in the words of Fair Harvard, “through The Foundation makes up to fi ve per- The Foundation encourages all alumni change and through storm,” with his humor, cent of its assets available to the marching of the marching band, jazz bands, and wind patience, and his appreciation for the Bands band, jazz bands, and Wind Ensemble for ensemble to support those groups through and their place within Harvard. grants annually. Specifi c requests submitted annual donations. These groups are self- Thank you, Tom. 6 ILLEGITIMUM NON CARBORUNDUM! THE CONDUCTOR’S CORNER BAND MEMBERS This past year has been a historic booking and promotion of several key PRESENTED AWARDS year for the band and for Harvard with jazz venues and festivals in Boston is The Stephen D. MacDiarmid Award, the announcement of Tom Everett retiring widely esteemed. With the changes in jazz named in honor of Steve MacDiarmid ’77, as Director of Bands. In August Tom was programming at WGBH this past year we felt is presented annually to versatile musicians granted a leave of absence through February it appropriate to honor these jazz heroes. Most in the freshman class. This year’s recipients 15, 2013. I was assigned a number of extra of the selections for the concert consisted of are Peter Hickman, James Dana and Rose duties, and Harvard alumnus Don Braden works selected by Eric, Steve and Fred. Whitcomb. Peter is a saxophonist from ’79, was hired as Guest Conductor of the On April 12, Joshua Redman will be the Bonne Terre, Missouri looking to study Monday Jazz Band. To assist with the many guest artist with the Harvard Jazz Bands, as Economics and Mathematics. When not administrative assistant tasks that needed we not only feature his music and artistry, but playing his saxophone with the Band, he to be done, Sonia Brathwaite was hired also pay tribute as well as thank Tom Everett enjoys playing in the Sunday Jazz Band as as a part-time administrative assistant. In for his many years of teaching and mentoring well as sports broadcrasting for WHRB. December, Tom made the decision to retire students, and for developing the jazz band James, from Weston, Massachusetts, is an on February 15, 2013. I was then appointed program to where it is today. oboist in the Harvard Band (the only one!) Interim Director of Bands through June 30, This past December, the Harvard Wind and the Wind Ensemble. He intends to 2014. Don Braden will also continue in his Ensemble presented a concert highlighting concentrate in Economics or Psychology. role as Guest Conductor of the Monday the music of German composers. The concert Rose, from Hurley, New York is a clarinetist Jazz Band the 2013-2014 school year. included the music of Ernest Krenek, Kurt in the Wind Ensemble and the HUB. She is Cathy McCormack, Program Director of the Weill, Felix Mendelssohn, and J. S. Bach. The planning on concentrating in Music with Offi ce for the Arts has been assigned to work ensemble’s March concert was a selection of the goal of eventually becoming a high closely with me in providing any support and suites and serenades, including movements school Band director. When asked what the Band meant to her, she replied, “In a assistance during this transitional period. At of the William Byrd Suite by Gordon Jacob, place as large as Harvard, the Band is a very present, the Offi ce of the Arts at Harvard in the Jazz Suites of Dmitri Shostakovich, and special extension of kindness which captures conjunction with the Music Department Serenade for Band by Vincent Persichetti. everything that this university stands for.” are reviewing the Director of Bands Once again the Wind Ensemble has asked job description and will proceed to student composers to compose new works The Malcolm H. Holmes Award ’28, announce the opening in the spring for the ensemble to be performed at our named after beloved Director Mal Holmes, of 2013. Hopefully interviews will April 6 concert. This year’s focus is on is presented to two dedicated freshman be conducted in the fall of 2013, photographs of Ansel Adams and the Bandies. The 2012 recipients are Katherine and a person will be hired to begin concert is titled “Black, White, and Farineau and Zachary Brazão. From July 1, 2014. Shades of Gray.” Schoharie, New York, Katherine is planning Without question, Tom Instrumentation for all the to concentrate in Governement or Social is irreplaceable. His ability to MARK OLSON ensembles is still a concern. We hope Studies. When she’s not performing with mentor, teach, give council when Interim Director to have more conversations with the Band, Katherine enjoys language, hiking needed, and share the many admissions and other offi ces on how and fi lm watching. Zach is a freshman from stories about the band and its traditions is we might better promote the opportunities and Scituate, Massachusetts who is considering a unique. Most of all, his love and commitment experiences available through participation in concentration in History and Literature. Zach to the students of the Harvard University the Harvard Bands. We also ask you to be on says that he loves the Band because “it has Band, both present and past, will always be the lookout for students in your communities connected him with so many great friends, remembered and appreciated. who currently participate in your area bands, upperclassmen and freshmen alike.” In his Through this transitional period, the and are potential Harvard students. Encourage spare time, Zach enjoys telling jokes and Harvard University Band has continued to them to contact us and to plan on being a part playing his saxophone. run smoothly. This is due to the work of the of the Harvard University Band experience. Band staff, both the past and current staffs. I The Robert T. Abrams Award, was initiated in 2008 by Bob Abrams ’49. Established on commend Nina Khosrowsalafi ’13 and Ally INC, the occasion of Abram’s 80th birthday, the Freedy ’14 for all the extra work and effort award is to be presented to a senior trumpet they have put in as managers of HUB. player who has demonstrated outstanding We continue to have an excellent musicianship, distinguished leadership, and relationship with the Athletic Department. Mark Olson was named the Interim Director dedication to the Band. This year’s recipient While the band has been requested to of the Harvard University Bands in 2013 is Conor O’Herin ’13. A Chemistry attend more and more events, the Athletic and has been Assistant Director since 2003. concentrator, he anticipates a career in Department does realize that the band is not medicine after volunteering for two years able to make every request and has offered to in the Peace Corps. During his term in the us their priority as to which events to attend. Band, he served as the trumpet section leader, That will help the Band in their scheduling a Herald Trumpeter, and a friend to all. going forward. The Athletic Department will also assist the Band this fall in fi nding storage for items they need for game day BASS DRUM JOURNAL STAFF for rehearsals and performance so the Band will not need to rent a vehicle to transport PHOTOS Sebastian Gomez ’14 items on the day of the game. Both Athletic Mason Marek ’15 Director Bob Scalise and the Band’s Senior Mark Olson Staff agreed that the relationship between the EDITING band and the Athletic Department is one of Allyson Freedy ’14 the best not only in the Ivy leagues but also Ian MacGillivray ’15 in the country. Louis Coppersmith ’14 “Live From Lowell Hall: Harvard Kim Johansson ’15 Kathyrn Wendorf ’14 Honors Jazz Heroes Steve Swartz, Eric and many others... Jackson and Fred Taylor” was the title of the program for the Jazz Band’s November DESIGN AND LAYOUT Milly Wang ’16 concert. Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz have been announcers on WGBH radio and UP THE STREET! THE BAND PARADES have promoted jazz in the Boston area and THROUGH DOWNTOWN CROSSING DURING Jazz at Harvard on their radio programs. THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS CAROLING Fred Taylor’s essential role in management, BASS DRUM JOURNAL 2013 7 HARVARD UNIVERSITY BAND NON-PROFIT ORG. 74 MOUNT AUBURN STREET U.S. POSTAGE CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 PAID BOSTON, MASS. RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED PERMIT NO. 59362