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Band Permits Woman To Assist in Concert

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A woman will solo with the Band for the first time in its history at the "Drumbeats and Song" concert on March 14. Sarah Lombardi, a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, will play with the Band in the first movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto, in A minor.

Only other recorded instance when women performers even got near the Band was at a concert for the National Association of Manufacturers at New York in December 1949. Three drum majorettes from Hempstead, L.I., High School were allowed to twirl to the Band's music.

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