brass band

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Recent Examples of brass band The City of Light is full of all the best clichés: Parisians cycling with bread in their bike basket, brass bands serenading crowds on stone bridges over the Seine, picnickers drinking Champagne and eating cheese on blankets in front of the Eiffel Tower. Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025 An emotional procession began, led by a brass band, and the crowd followed walking somberly, dancing, and crying. 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 See All Example Sentences for brass band
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brass band
Noun
  • The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall.
    Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Tea is the principal oboe in the wind ensemble and symphony orchestra, and currently the tenor saxophone section leader of the marching band.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Many more are members of large, first-rate symphony orchestras around the globe.
    CHRISTINA MAYO, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Bay City News Foundation Israel Philharmonic returns to Bay Area Davies Hall in San Francisco plays host Sunday night to the Israel Philharmonic, the 88-year-old orchestra based in Tel Aviv that is the pride of its country and is now on a five-city tour of the United States.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Puerto Rican artist’s band and dancers will join with each orchestra in all cities, traveling with a team of around 40 people.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025

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