Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band now judged by experts to be the best the world has ever produced, turned 200 this past weekend. On Friday the drums shook the South Lawn of the White House as President Clinton paid tribute. The next evening the piccolos rode the heavens in a Kennedy Center concert attended by the men and women who run this country...
Fennell was at the grand concert to direct saxophonist Bill Clinton's favorite band music, the English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams. And doubtless the magic spell cast by that music--so precise, so powerful--will again lift hearts and quicken steps...
...music was "surprisingly gentle for brass" in the words of one of the concert-goers, Tim Bushnell, a June graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government who was quietly reading a textbook in the courtyard...
...fact, there was a whimsical air to the whole event that began with the sheer oddity of a concert by a trombone chorus...
...concert began to mellow out after a brief intermission. By the time the group reached "Trombumba," their signature piece, the crowd had dwindled, as the lazy evening turned into night...