First Chair of America - National Yearbook (Greenwood, MS)

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EAST ISLIR NEW YORK, HIGH SCHOOL BAND SECTIONS l ' J ,fi -.1 , 1 . V ,Q . 1. ml lie' l liil I g--I . .w. w DRUM MAJ RS MAJORETTES RIFLE SECTION O Bette Riedel, Captain Kathleen Vahjen, Co-Captain OFFICERS FRONT ROW: ARTHUR ACCARDO, Presidentg LANCE CHIMENTI, Vice Presidentg W I L L I A M WEBSTER, Treasurer. BACK ROW: H A R R Y HLAVAC, Business Managerg WARD TUCKER and PETER PASCHKE, Assis- tant Business Managers. .2222 ' B' is A 1 .---i F n V s .Q 5 fu, -. .-. ' c 'P OFFICERS FRONT ROW: BETTE RIEDEL, Drum Majorg KATHLEEN VAHJEN, Assist- ant Drum Majorg MARYKATE MAD- DOCK, Publicity. BACK ROW: RICH- ARD CORDANI, Rifle Sergeant and WARD TUCKER, Assistant Rifle Ser- geant. 3' lf an 'Q Sea S.: if xiii: AEN. l J ,ar 1 s N

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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BANDS DR. WILLIAM D. REVELLI, Conductor The University of Michigan Symphony Band takes the spotlight at the close of the football season and is known throughout thc nation as one of the outstanding organi- zations of its kind. The late Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman was quoted as saying, The University of Michigan Symphony Band stands without peer among college bands. The Symphony Band is the major concert unit of the' bands at Michigan, performing through Michigan and other areas of the nation. It has twice appeared before the College Band Directors' National Association. Appearances have been made in major musical centers in such auditoriums as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Boston Symphony Hall, Shrine Auditorium in Detroit, and Bushnell Audi- torium in Hartford, Connecticut. I Critics have yielded high acclaim to the Michigan Symphony Band. Here are some of the comments: The Unizferyity of Michigan Symphony Band, under the leaderrhip of IVilliam D. Revelli, laft night gaueta concert in Carnegie Hall. The Uniuerrity of Michigan Band is without quertion one of the finer! in the country, if not the entire world. NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, Saturday, April 9, 1955. Long conridered the hert undergraduate murical organization of ity hind in the country, it: fThe Uniuerrity of Michigan Symphony Bandj Symphony Hall concert last night proved why. BOSTON POST, Boston, Massachusetts, April 6, 1955 ll7e have heard quite a numher of proferrional handr, hut- in our memory we find none that equalled what we heard lart night. It Kric., the Unirerrity of Michigan Symphony Bandj har the richness of the Barton Symphony, along with it.r power and rurgef it har the tonal heauzier of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the rhythmic flexibility of the New York Philharmonic, when Mitropoulo: i.r conducting. SPRINGFIELD UNION, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 5, 1955. IV ith impeccable muricianrhip and artirtry far heyond it: age level, the University of Michigan Symphony Band played to a capacity audience. COURIER EXPRESS, Buffalo, New York, April 1, 1955. Last night thi: 106 member aggregation Kric., the Unioerrity of Michigan Symphony Bandj came to Burhnell and performed in a collective manner that would put to shame many a trained praferrional group. HARTFORD TIMES, Hartford, Connecticut, April 8, 1955