词条 | Columbia University Marching Band |
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}}{{Infobox college marching band | band name = Columbia University Marching Band (CUMB) | image = The Columbia University Marching Band (CUMB).jpg | caption = CUMB on the field at Wien Stadium, November 17, 2018 | school = Columbia University | location = New York, NY | conference = Ivy League | founded = 1904 | fight song = Roar, Lion, Roar | members = | motto = "The Cleverest Band in the World" | website = {{URL|http://www.cuband.org/|CUMB}} }} The Columbia University Marching Band (CUMB) has performed for Columbia University since 1904. It claims to be the first college or university marching band in the United States to convert to a scramble band format, making the switch in the 1950s. Today, all of the Ivy League bands (except Cornell), as well as the Stanford Band, William & Mary Pep Band, and Marching Owl Band have adopted the scramble band style. The CUMB has a reputation for edgy humor and is often thought to be the most controversial and irreverent of the scramble bands. Since the 1960s, national news outlets have covered the band's most infamous pranks. CUMB bills itself as "The Cleverest Band in the World." PerformancesIn addition to playing at every Columbia football game, the band also plays in the stands at Levien Gym for Columbia basketball games, and at various other events. These have included the New York City Marathon, the Walk Against AIDS, and at New York City's 34th Street post office on Tax Day. The CUMB has appeared on many television programs including an early episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, the Late Show with David Letterman, The CBS Morning Show, MTV's Total Request Live, The Howard Stern TV Show (on WWOR), and Columbia's student run television station CTV. CUMB has also been featured in the films Turk 182! and Game Day. In recent years their musicianship has improved exponentially, and they have been invited to perform at New York Fashion Week, birthday parties, and Good Morning Tokyo. Orgo NightIn one of the school's longest-lasting traditions, begun in 1975,[1] at midnight before the Organic Chemistry exam—often the first day of final exams—the Columbia University Marching Band invaded and briefly occupied the main undergraduate reading room in Butler Library to distract and entertain studying students with some forty-five minutes of raucous jokes and music, beginning and ending with the singing of the school's fight song, "Roar, Lion, Roar". After the main show before a crowd that routinely began filling the room well before the announced midnight start time, the Band led a procession to several campus locations, including the residential quadrangle of Barnard College for more music and temporary relief from the stress of last-minute studying. In December 2016, following several years of sporadic complaints by students who said that some Orgo Night scripts and advertising posters left them "triggered" and "traumatized" and called for the show to be canceled,[2] as well as a New York Times article on the Band's treatment of sexual assault on campus,[3] University administrators banned the Marching Band from performing its Orgo Night show in the traditional Butler Library location. Protests and accusations of censorship[4] followed, but University President Lee Bollinger maintained that complaints and publicity about the shows had "nothing to do with" the prohibition.[5] In subfreezing weather, the Band instead performed—at midnight, as usual—outside the main entrance of Butler Library. The Band's official alumni organization, the Columbia University Band Alumni Association, registered protests with the administration,[6] and an ad hoc group of alumni writing under the name "A. Hamiltonius" published a series of pamphlets exhaustively addressing the issue,[7] but at the end of the spring 2017 semester the University administration held firm,[8] prompting the Marching Band to again stage its show outside the building. For Orgo Night December 2017, Band members quietly infiltrated the Library with their musical instruments during the evening and popped up at midnight to perform the show inside despite the ban.[9] Prior to the spring 2018 exam period, the administration warned the group's leaders against a repeat and restated the injunction, warning of sanctions; the Band again staged its Orgo Night show in front of the library. [10] Miscellaneous InstrumentsOne innovation of the CUMB has been the introduction of the "miscie," which rhymes with "whiskey" and is short for miscellaneous. While many of the band members carry a musical instrument onto the field, the band's miscies carry whatever they choose. Some miscie instruments of the past have included a washboard, spoons, juggled balls/pins, the Game Boy Advance, the ROLM phone, beer bottles, spare tires, steel mailboxes, condom harp, football stadium bench (no longer attached to the stadium), passenger handle from the interior of an MTA Redbird subway car, unicycle, and kitchen sink. Most recently, the miscie section has a toilet seat player. Other, slightly more melodious, instruments have included the shofar, the E♭ contrabass sarrusophone, a didgeridoo (the didge), and the B♭ lenthopipe (an 8-foot length of electrical conduit, with rubber hose and horn mouthpiece at the bottom end, and funnel at the extreme end). Band members have a long history of raiding competitive Ivy League schools and other institutions for memorabilia, including flags of Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley and the outsized stick used to beat the Harvard University Band's iconic giant bass drum. In a guerrilla action, the band once surreptitiously switched its regular dress for the dark blue of Yale University and appeared in the Yale Bowl as the Yale Precision Marching Band. Controversies{{Unreferenced section|date=June 2009}}The band regularly stirs up controversy due to its irreverent sense of humor.
References1. ^{{cite web | title=Columbia Cram Session Can Be Fun, Too | website=The New York Times | date=1975-12-20 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/20/archives/columbia-cram-session-can-be-fun-too.html | access-date=April 23, 2018}} {{commonscat|Columbia University Marching Band}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2014/12/11/if-you-go-orgo-night-youre-part-problem/| title=If you go to Orgo Night, you're part of the problem | work=Columbia Daily Spectator |access-date=April 23, 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web | last=Taylor | first=Kate | title=This Year, Columbia Event Finds Joke Fodder in Sexual Assault Debate | website=The New York Times | date=2015-05-09 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/nyregion/columbia-bands-traditional-show-includes-jokes-about-sexual-assault-debate.html | access-date=December 22, 2017}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2016/12/13/marching-band-denied-access-butler-library-orgo-night|title=University denies marching band access to Butler Library for Orgo Night – Columbia Daily Spectator|last=|first=|date=|website=columbiaspectator.com|publisher=|access-date=January 20, 2017}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2016/12/15/bollinger-defends-universitys-decision-ban-orgo-night-butler|title=Bollinger defends University's decision to ban Orgo Night from Butler – Columbia Daily Spectator|website=columbiaspectator.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://columbiabandalumni.org/orgo-night/ | title=Orgo Night! |website=columbiabandalumni.org |access-date=April 23, 2018}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://columbiaorgonight.blogspot.com/|title=In Defense of Orgo Night|access-date=January 20, 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2017/04/25/university-stands-by-decision-to-ban-orgo-night-from-butler-as-alumni-pressure-mounts/#.WP64g_uI60w.email|title=University stands by decision to ban Orgo Night from Butler as alumni pressure mounts - Columbia Daily Spectator|website=columbiaspectator.com|accessdate=July 11, 2017}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40269/|title=How Columbia’s politically incorrect marching band outwitted the administration’s censorship attempt|last=Piper|first=Greg|date=2017-12-21|accessdate=December 22, 2017|work=The College Fix}} 10. ^http://bwog.com/2018/05/03/orgo-night-spring-2018-liveblog/ 11. ^http://www.wikicu.com/Columbia_University_Marching_Band 12. ^http://columbiaspectator.com/2008/03/05/marching-band-stirs-fans-controversy External links
BibliographyLisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book, by Lisa Birnbach (1992) {{ISBN|0-671-79289-X}} {{Columbia}}{{Ivy League Marching Bands}} 4 : Scramble bands|College marching bands in the United States|Musical groups established in 1904|1904 establishments in New York (state) |
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