Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington press corps has long since learned that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara regards reporters somewhat as a general looks on junior officers: they have a job to do, and they must have access to the top brass-but only through channels. Last fortnight, when McNamara marched into a grandstand to watch some Army war games at Wedgefield, S.C., reporters were forbidden to follow-and like good soldiers they obeyed...
...concours by 2,000 cheering supporters; the Banda Primitiva of Liria, Spain, whose conductor entertained the crowd by dancing on his toes in front of his musicians as they played. When all was said, sung, marched, tootled and done, the overall winner of the world's biggest brass-band competition was not a brass band at all but an amateur symphony orchestra-the National Youth Orchestra of Israel, which barely beat out New Zealand's National Band.* The lung-weary winner of the marching band contest was the Dutch drum band, De Trommelaere van Roesendaele...
Sadly, this summer's brass fanfare may be the last. Scholtes has his enemies, who feel that he has won more glory than is proper for a $220-a-month clerk. When he was invited to Salzburg last year and introduced as "beloved Herr Doktor Scholtes," his fellow townsmen seethed. But if his concours goes, the loss will be Kerkrade's: instead of listening to the pick of the world's brasses, the town will have to settle for relative quiet and its own supply of twelve brass bands, 18 male choirs, nine flute, mandolin and drum...
...Although 85% of the entrants at Kerkrade are brass bands, prizes are awarded in four categories: Fanfare Orchestra (pure brass), Harmony Orchestra (brass cum wood winds), Symphony Orchestra and Mandolin Orchestra...
...addition, there is a marching band prize for brass band and fanfare competitors only...