Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copy of the original conductor's score. "I'm going to die," exclaimed Indianapolis Symphony Conductor Izler Solomon in mock horror when he was handed the 435 pages of Paderewski's Symphony in B Minor, which took nearly seven years to compose. Solomon cut the thunderous, brass-filled nationalistic epic to a manageable 33 minutes and turned it into the showpiece of the festival...
...those six years, I had learned the clarinet. I had gotten to sit in with some great bands at Preservation Hall, and had worked frequently with the Olympia Brass Band at parades and funerals. I had gotten to know and love these noore old men and had been through some unforgettable experiences with them...
...their lives, though in some cases, it meant the return of white-haired old men to bands and friends they had left 30 years before. Some have since become internationally known: Billie and Dede Pierce, Sweet Emma the bell gal, the Kid Thomas band, and the Eureka Brass Band all rose from relative obscurity as a result of the Preservation Hall revival...
...next day, three brass bands and several thousand people turned out on a gray, rainy day to bid George Lewis farewell. The Eureka Brass Band was there, the Olympia, and a third brass band made up of the young musicians who were in town. The latter had come a long way to hear the music and see the city. They had come from Japan, Sweden, Connecticut, San Francisco, and England. They had gradually gotten better and better seats for the performance, and now they were themselves on stage, playing dirges for their fallen hero...
...Closer Walk with Thee," in dirge tempo. The crowd was silent as the mourners in black followed the casket. One heavy old woman with fleecy white hair was weeping into a handkerchief and singing out the words of the hymn in between sobs. Her rich voice wailed above the brass with a clear, poignant tone...