Word: sackbuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bestow upon you a title worthy of your achievement, a title that testifies to your position as the near equal of the entrenched establishment. The results are frequently rather interesting. For instance, "Official Poster Designer, Hasty Pudding Theatricals 161" has a rather Olympic ring to it, I think, while "Sackbut" tends a bit more to the je ne sais quoi...
Everett is the founder of the International Trombone Association (ITA), a world-wide, non-profit organization of 2500 members that used to run Boston Sackbut Week, an celebration devoted entirely to the trombone. "We got tired of organizing it. We were busy doing other stuff," said Everett. "We thought it might be fun to have one day instead and see the interest that arose...
...grandfather clock to time-teller Dave Landes; Of the Indy's Dave Finegold the stockings we'll stuff With a typewriter ribbon in case things get tough. The wags at the 'Poon get a joke book to read Before their next issue; it's just what they need. Their Sackbut-that-was should be sure not to bungle; A Bells on the stage is worth ten in the Jungle...
Come hear the sackbut, shawm and Medici Philharmonic...
...roughly the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-had been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics or glimpsed in old paintings; even when they were reconstructed, few performers knew how to tune or play them. But in the past few decades there has been...