Word: oom-pah
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...Symphony Hall, "The Saints" was the first encore, and everyone knew it would be the last song of the concert. Those who could fit in the remaining space in the aisles left their seats and pressed forward. Robinson danced around the stage, waving his white handkerchief, directing short oom-pah bursts at people in the front. Putting down his trombone, he lifted some little children onto the stage and danced around with them...
...Oompah! Oom-pah!" muttered the tympanist as he lashed about in a semicircle, flailing out a solo on his five kettledrums. Then he took a cue from Conductor Howard Mitchell, launched a new flight that moved him to rumble out a profound "Ye-e-a-ah!" For all its appearance of a tribal dance the occasion was a regular concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The piece, entitled Concerto for Five Kettledrums and Orchestra, was an answer to a tympanist's dream: being liberated from his exile at the rear of the orchestra and placed out front...
Full-page photographs of the "camera study" type gave effective close-ups of a locomotive's cylinders spewing steam, of the sousaphone ("oom-pah") horn player at the county fair...
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