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Show . , f . ' f j ' ' : ' ' ' ! x' -V ' X ' to, i , ? U x '?AX. k I , ii.y,.i. - j mm w& wmJ No matter what happens hap-pens to the local football team on any Saturday afternoon this fall, one organization on the field is sure to come out on the right end of the score. That will be the band. A college bandsman bands-man is made, not born. His career usually starts in a grade-school class, like the one above, where he learns to play his instrument as part of his regular school work. By the time he reaches college age he is usually a good musician. musi-cian. At right a clarinetist clar-inetist and an oboist, members of the University Univer-sity of Michigan band, practice for a concert. The girl is a member of the school's concert band but not the marching unit. if iih . J i J iL,: if ) a I "'ijk ..- i - V1 ' ' y-y i ii "' 1 i i i i i i, i ii i - , , - , ' i V-- I1 ' r K x fl i;i t .M ' .J. , iin. i i ' V mWm m'''44?ix' I O Today's college bands are big enterprises, enter-prises, often surpassing in manpower and equipment equip-ment the football teams, they consort with. But larger still are the concert con-cert bands. At left two-members two-members of the University Univer-sity of Michigan band go over the score for a performance. per-formance. Football games draw much of their color ! and showmanship from ! the marching bands. i All is not music and marching for the college band. Trips with the football foot-ball team are high points of their school year. At right the Michigan band attends a banquet in Chicago, Chi-cago, puts on pseudo Northwestern helmets and joins in pre-game jibes at the morrow's gridiron opponent. Precision Pre-cision marching and thrilling formations go along with the stirring music of the college band in hundreds of college stadia every autumn week-end. Below the Michigan band denotes that love is in the air with an arrow-pierced heart. It is accuracy and timing hke this that will provide half-time entertainment at games this fall. i i Ai&-,w5Spsss w.':vmi , if' 'M H l I i r ' I I " j ' ' n aV .,..f-f ..1 - f t,- , " - 'is. ,.i v-t ".v ! !'vv V4-- vV f ' 4C" -if' '"'' " '.vit OV,.'. ,V-'Kt J ' ':' 'i' ' S'X |
