How To Use Brass band In A Sentence
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This new competition focuses on up-and-coming talented young players in the brass band world.
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They have successfully defended their title against 15 bands at the 18th annual Youth Brass Band Entertainment Festival of Great Britain.
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St. George's Hall was originally built to host brass bands, which were a favorite entertainment of the day.
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Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
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Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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All sorts of music will be well represented at the festival, including concerts of Irish folk music, jazz, Parisian chansons and brass bands.
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Then it's back to base for mince pies and mulled wine, while a brass band plays.
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This is a pail-shaped receptacle of yewen wood, bound with brass bands, both inner and outer parts being kept exquisitely clean.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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A number of groups rounded up for the occasion joined various semi-official organisations including youth groups, school brass bands and church groups.
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There was a nativity play and a brass band played.
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Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.
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First came the fanfare of pipe bands, brass bands and tenors.
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While brass bands welcomed the Hawks on to the ground, train drivers guiding their red rattlers past the railway wing would toot their horns in accompaniment.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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He has been bandmaster of the Morawa Brass Band since 1960, but began with the band in 1948 playing the euphonium.
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Fairground organ ditties blaring from food stalls soon gave way to the doleful strains of a whiny brass band playing funeral music.
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The vast orchestration includes an offstage brass band.
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He has been bandmaster of the Morawa Brass Band since 1960, but began with the band in 1948 playing the euphonium.
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From one side you hear the solemn notes of the fanfarade from Libuša; a little farther away a very cheery brass band is stirring its audience with a rattling march -- impossible to keep your feet still; then while the brass band pauses for breath and beer the insistent cadence of a dreamy valse floats up to meet you.
From a Terrace in Prague
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In front of the house a brass band played a medley of tunes including the Hallelujah chorus, a fitting finale to a grand ride.
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The band's latest album, "Tassili," features contributions from members of TV on the Radio, Wilco and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and this show stands to be electrifying, which is always the case when Tinariwen takes the stage.
Home Cooking, Foreign Fare
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Used to be you could go to a nightclub and see a comedian, a brass band and a conjuror for the price of a couple drinks.
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The last two seem to have very little in common with the addiction to singing and dancing characteristic of the rest, and are the only ones who can be imagined as feeling themselves at home in a modern museum, excepting on those evenings when the authorities use the museum (as is the custom in London) for a "conversazione," enlivened by brass bands and songs.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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Free activities: There is a weekly brass band concert, weather permitting.
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As soon as I heard them, I bought everything they had ever recorded and I learned how to play the sousaphone so that I could form a brass band.
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School brass band will provide music for entertainment.
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The choir master and choir sang beautifully, children gathered around the Holy Crib to sing their carols, and the brass band added zest.
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The procession made its lively way twice around the town, to the accompaniment of brass band music, the ear-splitting hoots of steam engines, The Velfrey Queen and Pride of Freystrop, and the applause of spectators.
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Both events feature arts and crafts stalls, a fun fair, majorettes ' performances, a brass band and a barbecue.
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She also plays baritone for Swindon Brass band and has been sponsored by fellow members and other local musicians.
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Promotion has brought the end of an era for the teacher who masterminded the success of a world-class school brass band.
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Like the brass band title music, this seemed to be entertainment for another age or at least for another demographic.
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St. George's Hall was originally built to host brass bands, which were a favorite entertainment of the day.
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There was a nativity play and a brass band played.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
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The bands played military music, traditional brass band music, plus a couple of "bierkeller" songs.
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Japanese music without the shamisen would be like a brass band without trumpets.
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While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands.
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The brass band paraded the main street.
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Like the brass band title music, this seemed to be entertainment for another age or at least for another demographic.
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The hair might be a bit thinner and greyer, but many of the faces in the historic village brass band are still recognisable.
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Then next Saturday Feb. 18, the 6th Annual Nolafunk.com Mardi Gras Ball arrives with the combination of the irrepressible funster Kermit Ruffins and his BBQ Swingers, the uber-funky Bonerama brass band, and jam-band favorite Marco Benevento.
A Young Lion, All Grown Up
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Keen bandsman Neil, pictured left, who plays the tuba with Morecambe Brass Band, is taking part in a 10-hour event at The Platform starting at 11 am on November 20.
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You be here today and you be gone tomorrow," says one reveler, part of a brass band-accompanied funeral march locals know as the second line.
Aliens, Operas and a Blank Slate of Documentaries
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Four members of the present band also play with the Graig Brass Band, a band with a long history stretching back to the 1760s.
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Others kicked in overdubs from their prospective studios, including a unique brass section on "Ya Messingah" by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, while Wilco's Nels Cline strums gorgeously on "Imidiwan Ma Tennam.
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This paper gathered that the party members have planned what they described as a procession amidst brass band music, signing and dancing to welcome Nana Akufo-Addo, who they consider to be their messiah.
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There was a nativity play and a brass band played.
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Free activities: The brass band gives regular concerts, there are guided walks and even occasional windsurfing regattas!
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One hears the strong link to the brass band marches of early New Orleans.
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Its cargo of supporters and media will be greeted by brass bands and fireworks at 10 ports.
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Crawdaddy-O, for general purposes, describe themselves as a Cajun brass band.
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The brass band paraded the main street.
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Musical families from all over the borough formed the brass band.
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The competitive spirit flows strongly, too, in the rapidly reviving brass band.
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For example, where we live, brass bands march at many ceremonies, and right at the back comes the big bass tuba.
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We will hire a brass band for your ceremony.
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Boaters who attend will receive a brass plaque and everyone can enjoy organised walks along the old section of the canal, a display by morris men, a brass band and an exhibition.
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The brass band paraded the main street.
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A brass band played and confetti rained over the site after workers poured the last batch of concrete.
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The president of the bullfight signals for the first bull to be released whereupon the fanfare of trumpets from the brass band also ends the paso doble (popular two beat dance music).
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Since its release at the start of the year more than a million people have flocked to see Le Fils à Jo, a film which is to its sport and its region as the 1996 British film Brassed Off was to brass bands and the South Yorkshire coalfields: a comedy with soul and roots and humanity, and a deep love of its subject and its setting.
French game given timely lift by a fictional All Black | Richard Williams
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Brass bandsman and crown green bowls enthusiast Colin Rowson died at his Leigh home on Christmas Day morning, aged 69.
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Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world.
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Theirs is a diverse and unlikely mix of influences, including jazz, funk, reggae and punk rock, along with Belgian brass band music, which they combine with various world music elements.
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There was a nativity play and a brass band played.
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From the classical to pantomime, from light operatic to sacred music, philharmonic orchestras to brass bands, musicals to pop, week by week Bolton displays its culture.
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Not at raw as the Buena Vista Social Club or as powerful as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra effortlessly make you want to rumba - how can you say no to that?
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But when they come together in a clique they come sneakishly, eschewing all change or disagreement, though it is to dine to a brass band in a big London hotel.
A Miscellany of Men
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The vast orchestration includes an offstage brass band.
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The rise of the brass band in England coincided with the development of valved brass instruments, particularly the cornet, allowing a wider chromatic range.
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If you ventured near a mailbox or post office Thursday, did you notice any brass bands playing John Philip Sousa medleys or Irving Berlin's God Bless America?
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The second line became one of the most distinctive features of all New Orleans brass band parades and even of the music itself as the extra musical inflection became an intrinsic element of the Crescent City sound.
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A brass band played salsa tunes as hundreds of protesters of myriad nationalities danced, sang and chanted in colourful, unthreatening resistance.
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The 60-strong choir has this time teamed up with the renowned Hepworth Brass Band which will set up in Holmfirth in 1882.
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The cornet became the leading instrument of British and American brass bands.
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The judges see acts as diverse as brass bands, a harmonica and beat box player and a 21-year-old fiddle player.
The Sun
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The village brass band plays regular concerts.
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The brass band played traditional army marches as well as folklore motifs and jazz pieces.
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A handsome yet sylvan prospect where you could promenade to the music of brass bands.
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Crowds soaked up the glorious weather as colourful floats, marionettes, a brass band, classic cars and a fire engine wound their way through the town.
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The crowd went on its way all smiling and you wondered whether there could be pomp and ceremony, any kind of public celebration without a brass band.
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Instead of going up to the front gate with the throng, we cut across and joined up with the other guards coming on duty with the brass band.
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A lone cicada will sound as loud and true as any brass band practising in an empty concert hall.
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The three groups represented on this album feature the ultimate in the sound and soul of brass band music.
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In fact, he did not even use one brass band: there are no cornets, saxhorns and bombardons in the score, but there is extra orchestral brass.
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The host school itself has six groups taking part a brass band, brass ensemble, junior brass trio and brass quintet, as well as a wind band and a clarinet choir.
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The variety concert will include a host of artists and school brass bands.
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Then it's back to base for mince pies and mulled wine, while a brass band plays.
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Brass bands playing patriotic and national folk songs and Lebanon's national anthem were regularly drowned out by deafening chants from the crowd.
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‘A brass band played a languid waltz under the alameda of blossoming matarratón trees,’ he says at one point.
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The judges see acts as diverse as brass bands, a harmonica and beat box player and a 21-year-old fiddle player.
The Sun
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The brass band plays off-key.
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Nowadays the lads and lasses go to what they call "balls" at some schoolroom, but they pay a shilling or so for their tickets and the affair is either someone's private "spec" or got up for a brass band or football club, and parties come from the neighbouring parishes.
From the archive, 26 December 1903: A farmer's Christmas in the Dales
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Here you'll hear a brass band playing marches, a black piano player talk and play some fine Blues, a wonderful fiddler, a old tenor banjo player singing German songs and old pop tunes, a superb Oud player originally from Lebanon, and a accordeon player doing Irish tunes.
Snow on the roof, Fire in the furnace
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The story of a colliery brass band might not sound like a fun watch.
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During the late 1800s, brass bands became a vital element of rural culture.
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Then it's back to base for mince pies and mulled wine, while a brass band plays.
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There was the Bismark Skat Club to play cards, the brass band and hunt club to name just a few.
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At their destination a brass band was playing.
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Five steamboats loaded with thrill seekers arrived from Lake Erie, each with a brass band on deck.
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For entertainment, there were Morris Dancers, fire-eaters, jugglers and an open air Carol concert accompanied by a brass band.
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In past projects, he has restaged riots from the 1984-85 Miners Strikes using the original participants, used teenage film-makers to shoot documentaries and arranged acid-house music for brass bands.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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Each Scottish regiment also has pipers and drummers but these pipe bands are made up of combat soldiers, and are less formal than brass bands.
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A handsome yet sylvan prospect where you could promenade to the music of brass bands.
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There was a sprinkling of decorative buildings, including an open bandstand where a brass band was entertaining a gathering of deck-chairs and the odd snoozing music lover.
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The village brass band plays regular concerts.
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Aren't there young men who are swayed by nothing more than the stirring music of a military brass band, or the sight of fine-looking uniforms, or the rabble-rousing rhetoric of a jingoistic politician while the flag waves in the wind?
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She only came occasionally and when she did, she stood out like a brass band.
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The host school itself has six groups taking part a brass band, brass ensemble, junior brass trio and brass quintet, as well as a wind band and a clarinet choir.
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The brass band blared from the wrought iron bandstand, families promenaded and old men gossiped in the shade of the neatly clipped box trees.
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In 1910, a bandstand was erected for the then popular live brass band music.
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While brass bands welcomed the Hawks on to the ground, train drivers guiding their red rattlers past the railway wing would toot their horns in accompaniment.
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There is a medieval theme and entertainment including knights, jousting and brass bands.
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The original Dodworth brothers were founding members of the New York Philharmonic and their brass band, the Dodworth Band of New York, barnstormed the country during the Civil War.
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The local brass band association has offered to try and pull together a replacement outfit from bands across the area.
