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Recent Examples of brass band
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.
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Jaymi McCann, theweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Since then it’s racked up more than 1 billion streams on Spotify and YouTube, led to think pieces about race in the Atlantic and the New Yorker and inspired at least one brass band to turn the song into an attack on former President Donald Trump.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2024
Wedding Parades Particular mostly to Louisiana weddings, the second line parade is quite the celebratory tradition in which a brass band and parasol-wielding newlyweds lead their guests, who wave handkerchiefs or napkins, on a festive jaunt through the city (or around their reception venue).
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
The track is noticeably different from previous offerings, with Deal leaning into classic swooning balladry, her tender guitar accompanied first by strings and, eventually, a booming brass band.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
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Jaymi McCann, theweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Since then it’s racked up more than 1 billion streams on Spotify and YouTube, led to think pieces about race in the Atlantic and the New Yorker and inspired at least one brass band to turn the song into an attack on former President Donald Trump.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2024
Wedding Parades Particular mostly to Louisiana weddings, the second line parade is quite the celebratory tradition in which a brass band and parasol-wielding newlyweds lead their guests, who wave handkerchiefs or napkins, on a festive jaunt through the city (or around their reception venue).
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
The track is noticeably different from previous offerings, with Deal leaning into classic swooning balladry, her tender guitar accompanied first by strings and, eventually, a booming brass band.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 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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Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
7 Dec. 2024
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Her fervent pursuit to professionally play the euphonium, which is not used in traditional symphony orchestras, had come with many stressful auditions.—
Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee,
New York Times,
27 May 2024
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Violins, for instance, now use metal strings instead of ones made from animal gut, and some of the instruments noted in the original score are no longer used by modern orchestras.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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The treatment began with a healing ceremony in the spa’s lush outdoor lounge, where a small orchestra of local instruments re-created the sounds of the jungle, complete with jaguar screams.—
Brittani Sonnenberg,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2025
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