No ordinary band
Inside Sanders Theatre, more than 100 musicians clutched their instruments and focused on Tom Everett, director of bands at Harvard and jazz adviser to the Office for the Arts. But this ensemble of performers was markedly different from the other Harvard bands that Everett conducts. The Harvard Summer Pops Band (HSPB) is open without audition to all brass, woodwind, and percussion players from Cambridge, Harvard, and the Greater Boston area, regardless of age or experience. This year, in celebration of its 40th anniversary, the HSPB will perform a concert of nine pieces, including Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of the Nobles,” LaPlante’s “In the Forest of the King,” Anderson’s “Sandpaper Ballet,” and a variety of folk melodies. Performances are at 4 p.m. July 26 in Harvard Yard, and 3 p.m. July 29 at Boston’s Hatch Shell. When Everett started the band in 1972, he “simply hoped that people would show up to the first rehearsal.” When,...