The "Best in the Business" was at its best Wednesday night when it presented the annual spring band concert to a sparse Sanders audience. Spirited, lively music filled the ancient hall, with a brief interruption for "Die Wursthausen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn Musikanten," the perennial concert comics.
The Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program.
Four football medleys in the usual style stirred up nostalgia for the fall. Finnegan's Brown and Columbia medleys, particularly, were handled in the Band's best tradition.
Ending with Sousa's "The Thunderer," the Band put life into a tune that is constantly mauled by grade school groups. Fine tempo and a well-controlled brass section brought out the better parts of Sousa.
With "Wintergreen" and "Fair Harvard" as encores, the Band completed its spring concert, which provided all that is expected from the Harvard Band.
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