Band Alumni News

 

Béla Fleck likes UMass Marimbas

April 4, 2008

An arrangement of “Big Country,” written by alumnus Olin Johannessen and performed by the Music and Dance Department’s Marimba Band, is being heard around the country after it caught the ear of well-known banjo player and jazz musician Béla Fleck.
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UMass band returns to city streets for encore

March 31, 2008

Following the nation’s second-largest St. Patrick’s Parade in Holyoke Sunday, the University of Massachusetts marching band brought its own parade to Conz Street.
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Alumna and friends ‘celebrated’ on new UMass web site

March 21, 2008

As UMass Amherst refines its fund-raising message to alumni and friends of the university, a band alumna and a husband-wife team of band fans are featured.
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Founders Day at UMass Amherst

February 11, 2008

Founders Day will mark the 145th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Stadium lights to be a fixture at McGuirk

January 29, 2008

After over a century of playing almost exclusively on Saturday afternoons, the University of Massachusetts football program is adding permanent lights to McGuirk Stadium for the 2008 season.
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2008 UMass football slate tough

January 16, 2008

The schedule for the University of Massachusetts football team includes four teams that reached the playoffs last year and a team that won a bowl game.
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Minutemen march on with Peavey

December 17, 2007

University of Massachusetts musical arranger Michael Klesch needed a flexible audio solution that could project every member of the school’s historic, 390-member Minutemen Marching Band with clarity.
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Band member named Marshall Scholar

December 3, 2007

Senior Katie Huston, a Journalism major from Royal Oak, Mich., is one of 40 students in the country to be awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which funds two or three years of graduate study at any British university.
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Sci-Tech band makes big sound

November 12, 2007

The High School of Science and Technology’s Concert Band could hardly contain its enthusiasm while tuning up one recent Tuesday morning, and some members launched into a popular radio hit.
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More powerful than the Red Sox

November 1, 2007

I was struck by something way more powerful than the Red Sox this weekend, the power of a learning experience for my kids. On Sunday, the day of the great series win, I had a way better win for my future legacy.
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