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The University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band, or Pitt Band, is the college marching band at the University of Pittsburgh. The band numbers over 300 students consisting of instrumentalists, a majorette squad known as the Golden Girls, a color guard, and the drumline. The band was founded in 1911 and has won numerous awards over the years.
Jack R. Anderson (born 1947 [1]) was Director of Bands at the University of Pittsburgh from 1995 to 2013, [2] having served as assistant director since 1986. [1] His responsibilities included directing Pitt's Varsity Marching Band, leading the Pep Band, and conducting the Symphonic Band.
Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching , of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia .
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...
On Thursday evening October 23, the Pitt Band led a parade of 1,000 students to the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train depot to send the football team off to Ithaca, NY with a "resounding "Alle-ge- nee" as the train pulled out." The team changed trains in Buffalo and rode the Lehigh Valley R. R. into Ithaca at noon Friday.
One such song is "The Pitt Panther" whose music was written by Louis J. Panella in 1922 and whose lyrics were penned by Howard E. Reppert, class of 1923. "The Pitt Panther" was recorded on the album Pittsburgh On Parade by the River CIty Brass Band in 1993. [50]
This category includes musical groups associated with the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its surrounding metropolitan area, including: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania , Armstrong County, Pennsylvania ,
Several thousand Pitt students held a pre-victory parade Friday night. They were led by the Pitt band and R.O.T.C. through Oakland and downtown. They carried banners that bore the legends: "White Wash-Jeff", "Pitt Panther Will Make Greasy Kneel" and "The Old Panther Doesn't Wear Any W. & J. Colors." [88] Coach Warner's injury problems kept ...