Word: oompahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above all else "a man of his village," notes Karl Frehsner, head coach of the Swiss men's team. And the village oompah band, for which Zurbriggen once played trumpet, quite rightly keeps him on its list of musicians. "That's what I really enjoy," he says. "Any music, except this modern rock stuff because there's no melody to it." He has a quick, shrewd intelligence -- "the mind of a businessman," states Frehsner approvingly -- and he is not at all fearful of the world. But he is rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown...
Chances are that if you hit Harvard Square Sunday afternoon you were lassoed into a juggling act, were engulfed with the Oompah-pah music of the Hofbrau Boys Bavarian Band, or were enticed by the mixed aromas of Mexican tacos, fried dough or Italian sausage that filled...
...narrow-gauge railroad to auto racing with formula Fords. Village festivals include Tyrolean wrestling matches, boatmen's jousting on the Salzach River, and the special day when the cattle are driven down for the winter from the high Alpine pastures. The festivities are invariably accompanied by the oompah of local brass bands in native costume; the Austrian Tourist Board claims that there are more such bands than there are villages in their country...