Word: sections
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Besides its instrumentation and repertoire, what makes MMV unique among Harvard musical groups--and what many MMV musicians say attracted them to the group--is its flexible structure. The full MMV ensemble is the sum of its sections--brass or strings or recorders, for example, members stress. Each section can and does perform alone at functions too small for the entire group...
Tokuno, who conducts each section in individual rehearsals, says, "I work [the sections] up so that each plays as a unit on its own. [Each] section works as a single instrument." Thus, when conductor Richard Laraga rehearses with the entire ensemble, he "conducts sections," not individual instruments, Tokuno says...
...that the first two statistics point to a serenity and self-contentedness which I find lacking in the city, the paragraph as a whole displays unforgivable ignorance. For the record, Boise is in Idaho, a thousand miles or more to the west of Iowa. And it lies in that section of the country we refer to as the North west, not the Midwest. Todd Christopher Andrew...
There are other intriguing tidbits about Gordie the Great. One section of the media guide lists Gordie's thoughts on such topics as the "Greatest Influences in Making Him the Person He is." For those who are interested, Gordie credits his high school wrestling coach with making him believe "you can reach any goal that you set your mind...
...judge by many of the offerings on supermarket shelves, dependable mediocrity and the illusion of choice might well be the twin goals of American mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...