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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.
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.
The Pitt Band performs "Hail to Pitt" at a pep rally for the 1947 Pitt vs. Penn State football game. The lyrics below represent the current lyrics to "Hail to Pitt" ascribed to by the Pitt Band. [36] Note that "U-N-I" are sung as three distinct letters of the alphabet, not to be confused with the phrase "you and I."
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.
History in the Making. The first parade in 1924 was actually dubbed the "Macy's Christmas Parade," and marked the welcoming of Santa Claus to the city. ... A marching band performs in front of ...
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 .
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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 ...