Harvard University Band - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Leroy Anderson (pronounced luh-ROY) '29 (Trombone) was director of the HUB from 1931-35. He also played as an undergraduate beginning in 1926, and was student conductor from 1928-1930. Composer of The Syncopated Clock (used for 25 years as the theme music for "The Late Show," the WCBS late-night movie.), Fiddle-Faddle, The Typewriter, Blue Tango, A Trumpeter's Lullaby and the Christmas classic Sleigh Ride among many others. The Harvard University Band's new headquarters was named the "Anderson Band Center" in 1995 in honor of Leroy Anderson.

• Theodore Kaczynski '62 (Trombone) is also known as the Unabomber. He briefly joined the HUB as a freshman in 1958.
• G. Wright Briggs '31 was band director from 1953-59 was a member of the theory and composition faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and program director for the famous Boston public radio station WBZ.
• Thomas Eugene Everhart '53 (Trombone) was the president of Caltech from 1987-1997.
• David M. Dobson '91 (Tuba) is the creator of the computer game Snood. As a Tubist, Dobson was known to play Flight of the Bumblebee and also arranged a 3-tuba Pachelbel's Canon.
• David Pinto '82 (Saxophone) was Drill Master of the HUB in 1980-81. He is currently a baseball blogger at www.baseballmusings.com and a columnist for Baseball Prospectus and The Sporting News.
• Tom McGrath '76 (Trumpet) was a founding member of the Harvard Jazz Band and Student Conductor from 1975 to 1976. He is a Hollywood and Broadway producer. Produced the film The Princess Bride and the Broadway revivals of West Side Story and Hair
• Laura J. Garwin '77 (Trumpet) became the first woman ever to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Later physical sciences editor of Nature magazine and Director of the Harvard Human Genome project. In 2006 Garwin left Harvard to study trumpet at the Royal Conservatory in London.
• Sam Coppersmith, 1975-76 Band Manager and victim of the Brown University stolen bass drum stunt, later became a Congressman from Arizona.