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Struttin' in Style: Mummery in Philadelphia |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: James Allison |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,714 Words, 16,548 Characters |
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"Where's Glenn?" he demands of no one in particular. In the hustle and bustle of getting the 64-piece Greater Overbrook String Band together at its clubhouse on Two Street, loading instruments and packing sheet music, there wasn't time to check off who was here and who wasn't. "He's got class tonight," comes the reply from the back of the van. Pickles can't make it either; he's in Atlanta on business. Chalk it up as one of the pitfalls of directing an all-volunteer orchestra.
"We have a solo for that piece. Why tonight of all nights?" he wonders aloud. "It's such an important concert." The late September gig is the string band's most important show since it merged two weeks before with the Italian-American String Band, of which Quattrochi was music director before assuming the same duti...
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...Greater Overbrook entertains the crowd, this 37-year Mummer is strutting among them, outfitted in a gold, pink, and white costume laced with sequins and rimmed with feathers. The inspiration is the hit television show Touched by an Angel.
"I love them all," he says as the band takes a fifteen-minute intermission. "If they ever took the Mummers away from Philadelphia, my heart would break."
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