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Recent Examples of brass band
An emotional procession began, led by a brass band, and the crowd followed walking somberly, dancing, and crying.
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Janna A. Zanzi, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
Pedestrians strolled in bright sunshine past the bars where the attacker struck, and an impromptu brass band struck up a tune.
—Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
In Montreal, a drums corps and brass band posted up near the complaining new neighbor’s building in an intentionally clamorous protest against the recent closure of La Tulipe.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
Across from our hotel, the village market was in full swing, with glühwein and hotdogs and a local brass band, playing a mixture of traditional music and modern hits.
—Jaymi McCann, theweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Janna A. Zanzi, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
Pedestrians strolled in bright sunshine past the bars where the attacker struck, and an impromptu brass band struck up a tune.
—Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
In Montreal, a drums corps and brass band posted up near the complaining new neighbor’s building in an intentionally clamorous protest against the recent closure of La Tulipe.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
Across from our hotel, the village market was in full swing, with glühwein and hotdogs and a local brass band, playing a mixture of traditional music and modern hits.
—Jaymi McCann, theweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brass band
Noun
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The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
Noun
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There has been a surge of interest in women composers by symphony orchestras around the country in recent years, including in Connecticut.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
23 Feb. 2025
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Then, David Pogue learns about symphony orchestra concerts where a film coincides with a live performance of the music found in the movie.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Sixteen members of the all-volunteer orchestra and the Brentwood Palisades Chorale lost homes in the fire.—
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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The principal vocalists—including the tenor Stephen Costello, who premièred the character of Greenhorn back in 2010; the tenor Brandon Jovanovich, as Captain Ahab; and Ryan Speedo Green, as the royal Polynesian harpooner Queequeg—and a robust chorus are bolstered, of course, by the Met’s orchestra.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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